This month Pamela DeGroff brings us an interview with The Cuban Legend — David de Alba. David has always sung in his own voice, never lipsyncing as many impersonators do. His classic impersonations include Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland as well as his own onstage persona, Boy Chic.
We bring you the fabulous Coccinelle! This is a video clip from a film featuring the legendary French performer in an Italian film from 1959. While America drove around in big cars eating burgers and drinking shakes Europe was applauding Coccinelle. Step back to Europe 1959 and join the fun.
David de Alba shares some vintage photos of female impersonator Holly White working in Morocco around the year 1964. View the photos and use a link to visit David’s site where he has an interview with Ms. White.
We continue our TGF Rerun of the series of articles done by Ms. Bob back in the 1990s on “Female Mimics Magazine.” In part three Ms. Bob covers the early 1970s and the changes the magazine, and the impersonation scene went through.
Last month we brought you a TGF Rerun of Ms. Bob’s first installment of her series on Female Mimics magazine. She covered the early 1960s issues of that magazine. Today we bring you Part 2 covering the late ’60s and early ’70s.
He was America’s female impersonation sweetheart. Vaudeville, theater, popular music, and silent films where all playgrounds for a man who started in career in dresses at the age of ten. But then came the talking picture and his career declined. Did the talkies ruin Julian Eltinge?
In the early 1960s a magazine devoted to female impersonators called Female Mimics appeared. It featured photos of and stories about professional impersonators, coverage of drag balls, and photos of “amateur impersonators.” In this TGF Rerun Ms. Bob takes us back to those days.
By the end of the 20th century drag performances had become mainstream. Films and Broadway shows featuring drag were not considered shocking. But did you know that drag was mainstream at the beginning of the 20th century? Meet Julian Eltinge.
Last month David de Alba performed his “Finocchio’s Backstage Memior”s at The Onyx Theatre in Las Vegas. David has kindly sent us photos to share from that performance, and he has also set up a YouTube channel and we present a video of David performing in the show.
Linda Jensen visits an old haunt that seems to be fading away. Cleopatra’s, once Montreal’s most popular drag show bar fought City Hall to stay in business. Now it needs to attract more patrons to survive. Linda finds it evokes many memories and she shares them here.
On August 21st David de Alba and Paul Cummings were together again on stage in Las Vegas to talk about their years at Finocchio’s, receive their official inductions into the TGF Gallery of Greats and sing a few of the old songs. We present photos from that event.
The world famous female impersonation venue Finocchio’s in San Francisco closed in 1999. Now two of the performers who helped make it the premier spot for high quality drag performance, Lavern Cummings and David de Alba, are appearing live in Las Vegas.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So, it seems, is intent. A blogger at Queerty.com has made it known that in his opinion the forthcoming Adam Sandler film Jack and Jill is insulting to TGs since Sandler plays the sister role in drag. Watch the trailer for the film and see what you think.
Two of the great female impersonators from Finocchio’s in San Francisco have packed their boas and moved to Las Vegas. Lavern Cummings (Paul) and David de Alba, who were both inducted into the TGForum Gallery of Greats several years ago, are now living in the sunny climes of the Nevada desert. Lavern, now in her […]
