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Dallas celebrity in the glamorous 1980s era of Ronald and Nancy Reagan : when Dallas leaders hosted Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth Taylor, and hundreds of superstars and royalty
- Title
- Dallas celebrity in the glamorous 1980s era of Ronald and Nancy Reagan : when Dallas leaders hosted Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth Taylor, and hundreds of superstars and royalty / by Nancy Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Nancy, (Columnist)
- Publication
- Denver, Colorado : Outskirts Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- 778 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, photographs; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Dallas as Ronald Reagan's international "shining city." Since both Ronald and Nancy Reagan had been movie and television actors, they took their star-quality to the White House which seemed magical for the first time since the Kennedy Camelot years. President Ronald Reagan said "America is too great for small dreams", and Dallas was inspired to reach out globally. The 1980s decade was a phenomenon when patriotism and prosperity and Hollywood and Broadway converged bringing to Dallas such celebrities as Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Prince Charles, Robert Redford, Jack Lemmon, Liza Minnelli, Shirley MacLaine, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth and hundreds more. Leading to the Republican Convention in 1984, Dallas streamlined the city with a dozen new skyscrapers, founded the Arts District, presented dazzling benefit galas, and was recognized as a center of luxury. The flair of visiting stars and royalty was a catalyst that helped change a medium-size Texas town into a model of the Reagan ideal "shining city"." --
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 762-778).
- Contents
- Presidnet Ronald Reagan's farewell address, July 11, 1989 -- Dreaming in glorious technicolor -- Heroic mission of the Reagan White House -- Movie star visits. Celebrity serendipity -- USA film festival and Dallas-Hollywood connections -- Dallas summer musicals with Tom Hughes -- Magestic Theater -- Dinner playhouses and celebrity haunts -- Nightclubs and rock stars. Fairmont Hotel and Venetian Room -- Dallas private clubs & four-star restaurants -- Rockin' with Steve Miller, Boz Scaggs, Jack Calmes, Bob Wade, Shannon Wynne, and Angus Wynne III -- The arts and culture. Dallas Museum of Art -- Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and the Dallas Opera -- Dallas Theater Center, Theatre Three and the theater scene -- Grand hotels. Trammell and Margaret Crow, the Loews Anatole and the Wyndham hotels -- Caroline Rose Hunt and the Hotel Crescent Court -- The Registry Hotel (later the Intercontinental) and the golden corridor -- Adolphus Hotel -- Luxury Dallas style. Henry and Juanita Miller, Highland Park Village and Café Pacific -- Shopping paradise -- Mansions and estates -- Interior designers and the Dallas Design District -- Dallas fashion scene from Victor Costa to Karl Lagerfeld and Oscar de la Renta -- Jewelers and auction houses from Tiffany's to Christie's -- Greenhouse Span and Dallas beauty experts -- Spectacular galas. The exclusives--Crystal Charity Ball and the Sweetheart Ball -- TACA and the performing arts -- Golden days and champagne nights raising millions at benefit galas -- Shining city. Republican Convention of 1984 -- Morning in America: the pinnacle of prosperity -- Second inauguration of Ronald Reagan -- presidential and royal visits. Prince Charles, Ross Perot and the Winston Churcill Award -- Princess Grace Foundation gala -- Nancy Hamon's ship of fools and the Dallas "rat pack" -- The royal visit of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip -- Dallas as the shining city in the millennium -- Author's biography -- Bibliography -- Endnotes.
- ISBN
- 9781478766896
- 1478766891
- 9781478762423
- 147876242X
- LCCN
- 2015918098
- OCLC
- on1420914304
- SCSB-14717418
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library