Blanche Walsh and Me: A Memoir of Broadway & Hollywood Royalty

By John Bredin

A little over a century ago, she was the reigning Queen of Broadway. In her one film role, she helped create the notion of a movie star. Now she's better known as, Blanche Who? This is the amazing, untold story of Blanche Walsh: America's greatest forgotten actress. A woke woman during the first Progressive Era (1895 - 1915), Blanche Walsh was the original advocate of an American National Theatre; an idea she developed with her friend Mark Twain. Known as the American Bernhardt, she starred in "Trilby," the forgotten play which inspired "Phantom of the Opera." She also played a key role in elevating motions pictures above the early "penny arcade" era to a legitimate art from akin to novels and plays. Told lovingly by Walsh's scion, John Bredin--an educator, writer, thinker, and talk show host--this memoir is itself a complex, magical work of synthesis. Combining elements of teacher narrative, forgotten Herstory, real life fairy tale, and the resurrection of lost dreams (personal, artistic, and political), it's one of the most important cultural stories of our time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08M21XKPC
• ISBN13: 9798554433108
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 232 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"