Nils Thor Granlund

Show Business Entrepreneur and America's First Radio Star

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by Larry Hoefling

Type

Biographies

Subject

Actor > Nils Thor Granlund

Keywords

Nils Thor Granlund, radio, actor, Sweden

Publishing date

2010

Publisher

McFarland & Co

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 243 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7864-4849-4

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Book Presentation:
Nils T. Granlund (1882–1957) created the first movie preview, filmed the first commercial, was the first to broadcast a live sports event, and, as a popular radio personality, introduced the Jazz Age to America via his broadcasts from Harlem’s Cotton Club. He is also acknowledged as the creator of the modern nightclub, introducing the high-kicking chorus line to the stages of Las Vegas. But though he was among the highest-grossing entertainers of the World War II era—famous enough to star as “himself” in several Hollywood films—he died virtually penniless, and today is all but forgotten.

This work is a comprehensive biography of the man known as NTG, from his herding reindeer in Sweden to shepherding the most beautiful chorus girls on Broadway.

About the Author:
Larry J. Hoefling is a former newspaper reporter who has received journalism awards from Columbia University and the Scripps-Howard Journalism Foundation. He lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

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