Margaret Hart Ferraro

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Margaret Hart Ferraro
Born
Margaret Bridget Bryan

(1913-09-28)September 28, 1913
Edgerton, Missouri, US
DiedJanuary 30, 2000(2000-01-30) (aged 86)
Los Angeles, California, US
NationalityAmerican
Other namesMargie Hart
OccupationBurlesque performer
SpouseJohn Ferraro

Margaret Hart Ferraro (September 28, 1913 – January 30, 2000), better known as Margie Hart, was a

stripteaser, in American burlesque
theatre.

Biography

Hart was born Margaret Bridget Bryan on September 28, 1913, in Edgerton, Missouri, one of eight children. She left home aged 16, then studied "exotic dancing" once she was of age in St. Louis. She married John Ferraro, the Los Angeles City Council president, in 1982. Hart suffered an aneurysm and a stroke not long after their marriage. In the 1990s her health declined quickly until she died at 86 years old in Los Angeles on January 30, 2000.[1][2]

Trial for indecency

Hart was one of three

Dixie Hotel
, and Gladys McCormick, 24, of 229 West 49th Street. The three pleaded
not guilty
and were each held in $500 bail. Jack Keller, 22, of Thayer Street, and Edward Goodman, 27, of 209 West 42nd Street (Manhattan) were arrested along with the dancers. Keller, a stage manager, was charged with permitting an indecent performance. Goodman was assistant manager of the Republic Theatre.[3] The men were held in $500 bail pending a hearing on April 16, 1935.[4]

Hart, Brawner, McCormick, and three other

Gaiety Theatre, New York, 1539 Broadway (Manhattan).[3]

Burlesque banished

Hart's arrest coincided with a 1935 citizen's groups campaign in New York City, calling for action against burlesque.

Fiorello LaGuardia, was returned to office, and the Minskys and their rivals were closed again.[5]

In 1942

Shubert brothers co-produced a Broadway show called Wine, Women and Song, starring Jimmy Savo
and Margie Hart. The show was advertised as a combination of vaudeville, burlesque and Broadway revue, and ran for seven weeks.[6] The revue included striptease, which shocked some of the audiences.[7] Wine, Women and Song was closed by court order in December 1942.[8]

References

  1. ^ Douglas Martin (journalist) (2000-01-30). "Margaret Hart Ferraro, Burlesque Queen, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
  2. ^ "Margie Hart". IMDb. Retrieved 2017-10-03.
  3. ^ a b Burlesque Girls Freed, New York Times, May 8, 1935, pg. 22.
  4. New York Times
    , April 17, 1935, pg. 17.
  5. ^ Morton Minsky Is Dead At 85, The New York Times, March 24, 1987, p. B6.
  6. ^ Stewart, Donald Travis (2014). "Barons of Burlesque: Isidore H. "Izzie" Herk". Retrieved 2014-05-24.
  7. ISBN 978-0-19-802935-9
    . Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  8. ^ "Isadore H. Herk". Billboard. 15 July 1944. p. 31. Retrieved 2014-05-24.
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