The Outrageous Sophie Tucker

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2014 / 96min.

Rating6

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

The rags to riches story of Sophie Tucker, an iconic superstar who ruled the worlds of vaudeville, Broadway, radio, television, and Hollywood throughout the 20th century. Before Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Bette Midler, Marilyn Monroe, and Mae West, Sophie Tucker was the first woman to infatuate her audiences with a bold, bawdy and brassy style unlike any other. Using all of "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas" 400-plus recently rediscovered personal scrapbooks, authors Susan and Lloyd Ecker take you on their seven-year journey retracing Tucker's sixty-year career in show business.`

Directors

Actors

Mickey Rooney

Connie Stevens

Carol Channing

Tony Bennett

Barbara Walters

Mamie Van Doren

Kaye Ballard

Shecky Greene

Chubby Checker

Jane Kean

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