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An exploration of America''s fascination with Cuba, featuring more than 150 rare photographs, movie posters and ephemera that promoted Cuba as a glamorous paradise

Midcentury America witnessed a frenzy for Cuba and Latin culture. Beaches, nightclubs and casinos lured tourists south to a tropical playground, while Hollywood celebrities and Cuban performers fueled a craze for rumba, mambo and Afro-Cuban jazz in the States. Stars such as Lucille Ball, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Cab Calloway and Desi Arnaz flocked to Havana to let loose and enjoy the music of Pérez Prado, Celia Cruz and Chico O''Farrill, alongside writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Guillermo Infante Cabrera.

With more than 150 illustrationsrare photographs, magazines, advertisement, movie stills and morefrom the Vicki Gold Levi Collection at the WolfsonianFlorida International University, Promising Paradise offers visions of the people and places that made Cuba so important in t

Promising Paradise

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    A Paperback / softback by Jon Mogul, Timothy Rodgers, Vicki Levi

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      Publisher Wolfsonian-Florida International University, The
      Published 20 August 2019
      ISBN-13 9780996869959
      978-0996869959
      ISBN-10 996869956

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      An exploration of America''s fascination with Cuba, featuring more than 150 rare photographs, movie posters and ephemera that promoted Cuba as a glamorous paradise

      Midcentury America witnessed a frenzy for Cuba and Latin culture. Beaches, nightclubs and casinos lured tourists south to a tropical playground, while Hollywood celebrities and Cuban performers fueled a craze for rumba, mambo and Afro-Cuban jazz in the States. Stars such as Lucille Ball, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Cab Calloway and Desi Arnaz flocked to Havana to let loose and enjoy the music of Pérez Prado, Celia Cruz and Chico O''Farrill, alongside writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Guillermo Infante Cabrera.

      With more than 150 illustrationsrare photographs, magazines, advertisement, movie stills and morefrom the Vicki Gold Levi Collection at the WolfsonianFlorida International University, Promising Paradise offers visions of the people and places that made Cuba so important in t

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