KalantanBehind The Curtain Mary Tillotson Bromfield 9781535407359 Books
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The Autobiography of Mary Tillotson Bromfield, known as Kalantan and wife of John Bromfield (Sheriff of Cochise). Read this and you will get to know the man who filled my life with love, excitement and laughter as we grappled our way through life, sharing it with friends from the film industry; George Wells, academy award winner – Designing Women; David Rose music composer – Holiday For Strings; Paul Savage writer – Gunsmoke; Owen McLean – casting director 20th Century Fox; actors, agents, managers, producers, and just plain down home folk.
KalantanBehind The Curtain Mary Tillotson Bromfield 9781535407359 Books
Mary Tillotson Bromfield -- who danced as "Kalantan, The Heavenly Body" on theater and nightclub stages in the late 1940s, '50s and '60s,has told her story, her way, and the end result reminds one of Lady Bracknell's line in "The Importance of Being Earnest":"A life crrrrrrrowded with incident." Bromfield has enough for three books here, evoking "Auntie Mame's" hopes for her memoirs, "Maybe they could be boxed -- like Proust!" No one will mistake Tillotson's prose for Marcel's, but '"Kalantan -- Behind the Curtain" is a colorful, spicy, sometimes funny, occasionally jaw-droppingly harrowing and outrageous read. This gal never stops! We follow her from a dirt-poor California child\hood, dancing for barroom nickels and dimes, to Los Angeles as a teen-age member of the burlesque "Follies Bergere Hollywood Revels," where jailbait Mary was called "Country" by the other girls, But when she started doing featured exotic routines, and then stripping, she was re-christened "Allene." A Mexican empresario discovered her (Xavier Cugat had tried, but the job came with strings attached, and Mary was tired of fending off advances and outright rape attempts from the time she was a child). In Mexico City, at a legitimate theater, she was a sensation without taking anything off. She was re-named again -- Kalantan --supposedly - the monicker of an Egyptian goddess. Her Mexican adventures alone are enough for a movie, but there was so much more to follow: criss-crossing America and Mexico countless times, her
lesbian manager slashing her wrists over her, marriage to a charming gay hairdresser who made her fear for her life (she was a lady in jeopardy on many occasions), doing 13 shows a night on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras, headlining in Las Vegas, dancing in a Howard Hughes-RKO movie ("Son of Sinbad"), defying mobsters and other low-lifes who wanted to run her career. Kalantan was in demand, because she was one of the most beautiful girls in burlesque (think Mariah Carey, Hedy Lamarr, Gene Tierney), one of its classiest acts (when I saw her, she danced in sheer pastel lingerie that seemed to slip off her body during her Afro-Cuban routines) and someone who valued herself, both as an entertainer and as a person. She eventually found true love -- twice! -- in overlapping love affairs with a terribly religious Ocean Springs Mississippi woman named Margaret and John Bromfield, the movie-TV star ("The Furies" and "Sorry, Wrong Number, both with Barbara Stanwyck, "Easy to Love" with Esther Williams, "Revenge of the Creature" and "The Sheriff of Cochise" on TV). They were together for 43 years and married each other three times. Her two great loves, John and Margaret, actually became friends! Kal stopped dancing at the age of 44 and went all over the world with Bromfield, including filming a multi-part documentary for British Air's hotels. .Apart from his wife, Bromfield liked nothing better than fishing and Kalantan became expert at reeling them in. She's also an accomplished portrait painter (I've seen her work.). And she can cook, too, with tempting meals described -- as she describes everything -- with attention to detail: sights, sounds smells. She also documents the lost live entertainment world that was probably the last vestige of American vaudeville. Her self-published book is long at 498 pages, dotted with typos, photo captions that require a magnifying glass to read and outright misspellings of even celebrity names. (My favorite: Cyd Charisse emerges as Sid Sharice). But it's like no other celebrity biography you've ever read and if a real publisher and a real copy editor got hold of it, they could polish it up into something extraordinary. To call this woman and her story "remarkable" is putting it mildly..
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KalantanBehind The Curtain Mary Tillotson Bromfield 9781535407359 Books Reviews
This autobiography was nothing like I envisioned it to be. I am a fan of Kalantan's work, particularly in Son of Sinbad (1955). I had assumed that she was a typical starlet; a brief career, followed by a high-profile marriage. This book certainly proves that to be untrue. Not only is it well-written, but it's provocative, suspenseful, and thoughtful. I didn't realize that she has had such an interesting and exciting life. I was only looking to glance through the pages for facts and references, but I became hooked. It's a fantastic read, and Kalantan is an amazing woman; she's sharp too.
Loved the book! What a great author!
WHAT A GREAT HEART FELT STORY.
Read this book in 2 nights could not put it down. Very enlightening.
An enjoyable read from page one to the gripping poem at the end. Mary had a humbling first start in life and overcame obstacles and events that would make some people crumble, but not Mary. She is still going strong and standing straight at age 88. She is still writing more of her events in her fascinating life. She's not stopping anytime soon.
Carol
Mary Tillotson Bromfield -- who danced as "Kalantan, The Heavenly Body" on theater and nightclub stages in the late 1940s, '50s and '60s,
has told her story, her way, and the end result reminds one of Lady Bracknell's line in "The Importance of Being Earnest""A life crrrrrrrowded with incident." Bromfield has enough for three books here, evoking "Auntie Mame's" hopes for her memoirs, "Maybe they could be boxed -- like Proust!" No one will mistake Tillotson's prose for Marcel's, but '"Kalantan -- Behind the Curtain" is a colorful, spicy, sometimes funny, occasionally jaw-droppingly harrowing and outrageous read. This gal never stops! We follow her from a dirt-poor California child\hood, dancing for barroom nickels and dimes, to Los Angeles as a teen-age member of the burlesque "Follies Bergere Hollywood Revels," where jailbait Mary was called "Country" by the other girls, But when she started doing featured exotic routines, and then stripping, she was re-christened "Allene." A Mexican empresario discovered her (Xavier Cugat had tried, but the job came with strings attached, and Mary was tired of fending off advances and outright rape attempts from the time she was a child). In Mexico City, at a legitimate theater, she was a sensation without taking anything off. She was re-named again -- Kalantan --supposedly - the monicker of an Egyptian goddess. Her Mexican adventures alone are enough for a movie, but there was so much more to follow criss-crossing America and Mexico countless times, her
lesbian manager slashing her wrists over her, marriage to a charming gay hairdresser who made her fear for her life (she was a lady in jeopardy on many occasions), doing 13 shows a night on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras, headlining in Las Vegas, dancing in a Howard Hughes-RKO movie ("Son of Sinbad"), defying mobsters and other low-lifes who wanted to run her career. Kalantan was in demand, because she was one of the most beautiful girls in burlesque (think Mariah Carey, Hedy Lamarr, Gene Tierney), one of its classiest acts (when I saw her, she danced in sheer pastel lingerie that seemed to slip off her body during her Afro-Cuban routines) and someone who valued herself, both as an entertainer and as a person. She eventually found true love -- twice! -- in overlapping love affairs with a terribly religious Ocean Springs Mississippi woman named Margaret and John Bromfield, the movie-TV star ("The Furies" and "Sorry, Wrong Number, both with Barbara Stanwyck, "Easy to Love" with Esther Williams, "Revenge of the Creature" and "The Sheriff of Cochise" on TV). They were together for 43 years and married each other three times. Her two great loves, John and Margaret, actually became friends! Kal stopped dancing at the age of 44 and went all over the world with Bromfield, including filming a multi-part documentary for British Air's hotels. .Apart from his wife, Bromfield liked nothing better than fishing and Kalantan became expert at reeling them in. She's also an accomplished portrait painter (I've seen her work.). And she can cook, too, with tempting meals described -- as she describes everything -- with attention to detail sights, sounds smells. She also documents the lost live entertainment world that was probably the last vestige of American vaudeville. Her self-published book is long at 498 pages, dotted with typos, photo captions that require a magnifying glass to read and outright misspellings of even celebrity names. (My favorite Cyd Charisse emerges as Sid Sharice). But it's like no other celebrity biography you've ever read and if a real publisher and a real copy editor got hold of it, they could polish it up into something extraordinary. To call this woman and her story "remarkable" is putting it mildly..
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