1. Eva Tanguay was a Canadian singer and entertainer who billed herself as "the girl who made vaudeville famous".
18 Facts About Eva Tanguay
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Eva Tanguay was known as "The Queen of Vaudeville" during the height of her popularity from the early 1900s until the early 1920s.
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Eva Tanguay eventually landed a spot in the Broadway musical My Lady in 1901.
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Eva Tanguay was reportedly the major love of Tanguay's life, although he never returned her feelings and ultimately married Tanguay's niece, Lillian M Skelding, in 1914.
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Eva Tanguay went on to have a long-lasting vaudeville career and eventually commanded one of the highest salaries of any performer of the day, earning as much as $3,500 a week at the height of her fame around 1910.
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Eva Tanguay was brought in to star in the 1909 Ziegfeld Follies, where she replaced the husband-and-wife team of Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes, who were engaged in a bitter salary and personal feud with Ziegfeld.
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Eva Tanguay requested that the musical number "Moving Day in Jungle Town" be taken from rising talent Sophie Tucker and given to her.
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Eva Tanguay never forgot the lesson, buying huge ads at her own expense and on one occasion allegedly spending twice her salary on publicity.
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Eva Tanguay got her name in the papers for allegedly being kidnapped, allegedly having her jewels stolen, and being fined $50 in Louisville, Kentucky, for throwing a stagehand down a flight of stairs.
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In 1910, a year after the Lincoln penny was first issued, Eva Tanguay appeared on stage in a coat entirely covered in the new coins.
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Eva Tanguay only made one known recording in 1922 for Nordskog Records.
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At the time of her death, Eva Tanguay was working on her autobiography, to be titled Up and Down the Ladder.
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Eva Tanguay died on January 11,1947, aged 68, in Hollywood.
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Eva Tanguay was interred in the Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, now Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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Eva Tanguay married twice, although she was incorrectly reported to have been married up to four times, due in part to her 1908 public engagement to extremely popular cross-dressing performer Julian Eltinge, who played the bride while she dressed in traditional male formal attire.
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Eva Tanguay terminated the relationship after Ails's behavior became increasingly erratic and violent.
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In 1927, aged 49, Eva Tanguay married her piano accompanist, 25-year-old Al Parado.
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Eva Tanguay claimed that Parado had at least two other names, which he used so frequently that she was not sure which one was real.