Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove Holden Triona
The first-ever biography of a trailblazing star of yesteryear, a colorful tale, full of grit and glamourWith her hourglass figure and Marilyn Monroe looks, Joan Rhodes would leave audiences speechless…
Specifikacia Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove Holden Triona
The first-ever biography of a trailblazing star of yesteryear, a colorful tale, full of grit and glamourWith her hourglass figure and Marilyn Monroe looks, Joan Rhodes would leave audiences speechless as she bent steel bars with her teeth, ripped large phone books into quarters, and lifted two men at a time. But what she did was real. Joan had a superstrength, forged out of desperation to survive.Born into poverty in 1920s London and abandoned by her parents, Joan endured a spell in the workhouse and earned scraps busking on the streets. Despite the worst possible start, she made it to the top of her profession to rub sequined shoulders with the likes of Fred Astaire, Bob Hope and Sammy Davis Jnr. Joan's crowning glory was to perform for the Queen and Prince Philip at Windsor Castle, and along the way she made lifelong friendships with Marlene Dietrich, Quentin
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