The Norwegian Rocky Twins (born Leif and Paal Roschberg) were deliciously handsome and lived life to the full. They made a name for themselves as dancers in the Paris music hall in the late 1920s at the tender age of eighteen and went onto have a ten-year career in Europe and America appearing on stage and in film during the Jazz Age between 1927-1937. Their act took Paris by storm in 1927 because in one of their numbers, they dressed up in drag and imitated the famous Dolly Sisters, who had just retired. Their unique performance enabled them to star on the stage and in film across Europe and America (Paris, London, Vienna, Budapest, Berlin, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, New York and Los Angeles) and at the same time their good looks became highly sought after by connoiseurs of the body beautiful of either sex. Their beauty, their androgynous looks and their outrageous antics made them legendary.
Table of Content
Author’s Note 1-4 Introduction 5-12 Chapter One: The Early Years 1909-1927 13-22 Chapter Two: The Heavenlies’ or ‘The Black Orchids of the North‘ in London 23-50 Chapter Three: Double Rendezvous, Paris 1927-1928 51-83 Chapter Four: European Tour 1928-1930 84-99 Chapter Five: First trip to New York and back to Europe 1930-1931 100-129 Chapter Six: Hollywood, MGM and the Pansy Craze 1931-1932 130-148 Chapter Seven: Larry Hart and Low and Behold 1932-1933 149-168 Chapter Eight: New York Cabaret 1933-1936 169-187 Chapter Nine: Europe and Separation 1936 – 1941 188-198 Chapter Ten: The War Years and Later Life 199 Acknowlegements 199 Picture Credits 199 About the Author 200-202 Chronology 203- 212 Footnotes
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