{"product_id":"my-giddy-aunt-and-her-sister-comedians","title":"My Giddy Aunt and her sister comedians","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOpening a mysterious case of old photographs, Sharon Connolly begins a search for the great aunt she never knew. Gladys Shaw was a whistling comedian, a singer and saxophonist, an eccentric dancer and a whip-cracker — one of the ‘girls’ who made Australia laugh. They were onstage musical comics, actors and male impersonators braving a new age, of cinema and radio. They parodied men, servant girls and maiden aunts, but they were modern women — independent, determined and sometimes wild.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eAnd they helped change ideas about how women should behave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilmmaker Sharon Connolly turns to the archives, both family and state, and finds a sisterhood of jesters who charmed and surprised the backblocks, towns and big cities of Australia and New Zealand last century. \u003ci\u003eMy Giddy Aunt\u003c\/i\u003e tells stories of ‘funny girls’ and witty women – joking, singing and whistling in a man’s world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWith a foreword by historian Professor Ann Curthoys\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFormer documentary filmmaker, television producer and chief executive of Film Australia, Sharon Connolly has been involved in making many landmark history series and films. In her first book, \u003ci\u003eMy Giddy Aunt\u003c\/i\u003e, as in her first documentary, \u003ci\u003eRed Matildas\u003c\/i\u003e, she writes some remarkable yet uncelebrated women back into the stories of Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upswell Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42238582980663,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/7771\/2951\/files\/2270_UP_My-Giddy-Aunt-Front-coverfinal.jpg?v=1779074717","url":"https:\/\/upswell-publishing.myshopify.com\/products\/my-giddy-aunt-and-her-sister-comedians","provider":"Upswell Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}