The Dolly Sisters and Mr Selfridge
More interesting commentary about the Dolly Sisters and Mr Selfridge, in advance of the last series of the ITV show, Mr Selfridge is unveiled this time from the Daily Star.
Category Archives: Dolly Sisters
The Dolly Sisters in Pictures
The Dolly Sisters in Pictures
A new sampler showing some of the content of the book The Dolly Sisters in Pictures is available now
Dolly Sisters and Mr Selfridge
The Dolly Sisters and Mr Selfridge
The commentary about the Dolly Sisters and Mr Selfridge, in advance of the last series of the ITV show, has started already with the latest feature from The Mail on Sunday.
The Dolly Sisters Biography
The Dolly Sisters Biography
The Dolly Sisters: Icons of the Jazz Age is out now
The Dolly Sisters: The Legend
The Dolly Sisters: The Legend
‘In more than one way the Dolly Sisters were original Glamor Girls of Cafe Society – even though theirs was an era -that fabulous period of the Roarin’ twenties – when the term Cafe Society had not yet been coined.’ Cholly Knickerbocker c.1945
The Dolly Sisters: Tragedy
The Dolly Sisters: Tragedy
‘One appears as the reflection of the other and just as you could not see a man without his shadow, you could not conceive of how one of the Dolly Sisters could dance and live without the other’ Jazz Magazine 15 June 1927
The Dolly Sisters: Paris
The Dolly Sisters: Paris
‘Now established Parisian institutions, and, as such, may be be said to rate with the Comedie-Francaise, the Bank of France, and the incomparable Mistinguett!’ The Sketch 13 July 1927.
The Dolly Sisters: London
The Dolly Sisters: London
‘Two more electric personalities it has never been my fate to meet. They radiated personal magnetism, vibrant energy or whatever you like to call it and any revue benefited enormously by their presence on the stage… On the stage and off the Dolly sisters were unique.’ Charles B. Cochran
The Dolly Sisters: New York
The Dolly Sisters: New York
‘You can’t tell one apart from the other. In conversational ability they are as entertaining as they are with their tootsies. No prettier, smarter, clever people were born than these two girls… the most charming tots on the American stage…. they have proven themselves a box office asset… greater things will be heard…’ Unidentified 1916
The Dolly Sisters: an Introduction
The Dolly Sisters: An Introduction
‘It must be admitted that the chief fascination of the twin Dollies lies not so much in the grace of their dancing, nor in the charm of their personalities, nor in the naiveté of this manner, nor yet the quaintness of their accents – sufficient as are all of these – but rather in the amazing duplicity of Nature’ Margaret Burr in Theatre Magazine May 1916
