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Stormé: Lady of the Jewel Box
Michelle Parkerson

Stormé: Lady of the Jewel Box

  • Documentary
RELEASE

1991-05-07

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

21 min

Description

“It ain’t easy…being green” is the favorite expression of Stormé DeLarverie, a woman whose life flouted prescriptions of gender and race. During the 1950s and '60s she toured the black theater circuit as a mistress of ceremonies and the sole male impersonator of the legendary Jewel Box Revue, America’s first integrated female impersonation show and forerunner of La Cage aux Folles.