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Bangkok After Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies

Read "Bangkok After Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright


Bangkok After Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies Benjamin Tausig 264 Pages ISBN: 978-1-4780-3170-3 Duke University Press 2025 You may have seen pianist-singer and entertainer Maurice Rocco in Incendiary Blonde (Paramount, 1945), the rags-to-riches story of Texas Guinan, the Waco-born daughter of immigrants who became a New York nightclub tycoon during Prohibition, starring Betty Hutton. No? Then check the extraordinary clip (below). He sings, dances ...

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