That was also the year that Australian National Portrait Gallery purchased a portrait of Carlotta and incorporated it into their collection. Carlotta later launched a touring one-woman show called Carlotta: Live and Intimate.
In , she began appearing as a regular guest panelist on the morning news show Studio The following year, a made-for-TV movie about her life was made called Carlotta. Carlotta was played by cisgender actor Jessica Marais and while I would like to criticize that choice, but Carlotta was actually involved in the casting. In , she was diagnosed with bladder cancer. Her doctors caught it early, performed surgery, and she made a full recovery and jumped right back into her career. In , she continued touring with her musical revue Carlotta: Queen of the Cross which features a wide variety of music, especially from other queer artists like Peter Allen whom she had been friends with and Stephen Sondheim.
That last one may have to get given to her again, as Carlotta is still performing, and no doubt has much more that she will achieve. View all posts by queerstorian. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.
You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Skip to content. Carlotta at the Les Girls 25th anniversary show in She has also toured with her one-woman show Carlotta: Live and Intimate. In , aged 75 she still continues to tour, performing such songs by Irving Berlin , Rodgers and Hart, Stephen Sondheim and her late friend Peter Allen , performing with a three-piece band headed by Michael Griffiths.
In , a bronze sculpture was dedicated to her in Kings Cross, where she also has a star on the pavement. Australian entertainer, cabaret performer and television celebrity.
Biography Lists News Also Viewed. Carol Carlotta Spencer. The basics. Intro Australian entertainer, cabaret performer and television celebrity A. The details from wikipedia. Was carlotta a man?
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Should I side Zora or Graham? Should I give bolt 52 to Sanjar? The only memento of Byron's wild old days on display in her tastefully subdued home is a single framed snapshot of a semi-clad Carlotta vamping before a mirror in the Les Girls dressing room in the late s.
This was the seedy Kings Cross club where Byron and other young female impersonators found refuge from the harsh laws and generalised "poofter-bashing" of the era. They had the time of their lives, despite a regime of violence and intimidation by nightclub bosses and their hired muscle.
No hint of these ordeals appears on Carlotta's face in the snapshot on Byron's sideboard. The young transsexual who longed to be a "complete" woman stares into the mirror as though hypnotised by her own beauty and potential.
The same photo, clearly a favourite, appears in Carlotta, the upcoming telemovie on ABC1, along with another picture of the star on stage with boa feathers clutched to the breasts she had implanted in Hong Kong. Backstage at the famous Kings Cross nightclub, As her spaghetti sauce simmers in the kitchen, Byron — with an almost visible effort — wrenches her mind back to the troubled Sydney childhood that shaped her destiny.
Born in to an year-old "party girl" named Evelyn Byron and an unknown father, Richard Lawrence Byron was given over, while still a baby, to the care of a big-hearted woman she called Aunty Hazel. I think she was being paid some sort of [allowance] for me by the government, and didn't want to lose that money. On stage with the Les Girls troupe in Byron grew up in then working-class Balmain thinking Roberts' two daughters and three sons were his brothers and sisters.
Ridiculed at school, where "everyone said I looked like a girl", and abused by John, who became his mother's third husband, Byron ran away from home at Gay friends or "queers" as they were then known helped him get a job as a window dresser at David Jones, and a tiny apartment in Potts Point.
Carlotta with Danny La Rue in And it stood me in good stead later when I went into drag and had to paint my own face. But when we move from the despised theme of her origins as a male to the female impersonator period, Byron's mood changes from guarded to girlish.
Her new friends taught her how to dress as a woman, introduced her to the movers and shakers, and opened her eyes to the thrill of the Cross. All the women were in furs, and they had all these beautiful showgirls Her new friends told her she was gay, and she - with no real idea of what that meant — assumed it described artistic people who dressed outrageously and liked to party. From the book Carlotta : "It wasn't until some guy tried to put his penis in my backside in the toilet of the Carlton Rex [Hotel] I didn't like it one bit.
For Carol, as she began calling herself, it was all about dressing up like various famous women of the day, and copying their styles and mannerisms. Like her fellow "draggies", she became a make-believe beautiful woman at precisely the time that male revues became internationally popular. Her group of female impersonators was discovered by local promoter Sammy Lee, who opened Les Girls in in a Kings Cross building owned by the enigmatic crime figure — or "identity", as Byron prefers — Abe Saffron.
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