LIBERACE / Tropicana Ave Las Vegas Nevada NV card Drivers License Heger

$12.12 Buy It Now, $9.46 Shipping, 60-Day Returns, eBay Money Back Guarantee
Seller: Top-Rated Seller cleversignsofthetimes ✉️ (7,034) 99.5%, Location: Palm Springs, California, US, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 163058763862 LIBERACE / Tropicana Ave Las Vegas Nevada NV card Drivers License Heger.

Grrrrrrrr -eetings .   here is a fun and fantastic addition to your costume gear, or the perfect gift for any fan.

This is a Credit Card Size fun novelty rendition  of an official identification card.

It is approximately in Size:    3 â…› in. x 2 â…œ in.                    It is constructed of laminated plastic.

Thanks most kindly, Harry

fun facts from wikipedia..

Liberace From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the American musician and actor. For his elder brother, see  George Liberace .
Liberace
Liberace in 1969
BornWÅ‚adziu Valentino Liberace May 16, 1919 West Allis, Wisconsin , U.S.
DiedFebruary 4, 1987  (aged 67) Palm Springs, California , U.S.
Cause of deathPneumonia   as a complication of  AIDS
Resting placeForest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery
Other names
    • Walter Busterkeys
    • Walter Liberace
    • Lee
    • The Glitter Man
    • Mr. Showmanship
Occupation
  • Pianist
  • singer
  • entertainer
  • actor
Musical career
Genres
  • Traditional pop
  • easy listening
  • big band
  • swing
  • jazz
  • classical
InstrumentsPiano ,  vocals
Years active 1936–1986
LabelsColumbia Dot
Associated acts George Liberace ,  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

WÅ‚adziu Valentino Liberace [nb 1]   (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) was an American pianist, singer and actor.[2]   A  child prodigy   born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin, Liberace enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame, from the 1950s to the 1970s, Liberace was the highest-paid entertainer in the world,[3]   with established  concert residencies   in  Las Vegas , and an international touring schedule. Liberace embraced a lifestyle of flamboyant excess both on and off stage, acquiring the nickname "Mr. Showmanship".

Early television work and  The Liberace Show [ edit ] Liberace performing in 1983

Liberace mostly bypassed radio before trying a television career, thinking radio unsuitable given his act's dependency on the visual.[34]   Despite his enthusiasm about the possibilities of television, Liberace was disappointed after his early guest appearances on  CBS 's  The Kate Smith Show , and  DuMont 's  Cavalcade of Stars , with  Jackie Gleason   (later  The Jackie Gleason Show   on CBS). Liberace was particularly displeased with the frenetic camera work and his short appearance time. He soon wanted his own show where he could control his presentation as he did with his club shows.[35]

His first show on local television in Los Angeles was a smash hit, earning the highest ratings of any local show, which he parlayed into a sold-out appearance at the  Hollywood Bowl .[36]   That led to a summer replacement program for  Dinah Shore .

The 15-minute network television program,  The Liberace Show , began on July 1, 1952, but did not lead to a regular network series. Instead, producer Duke Goldstone mounted a filmed version of Liberace's local show performed before a live audience for  syndication   in 1953 and sold it to scores of local stations. The widespread exposure of the syndicated series made the pianist more popular and prosperous than ever. His first two years' earnings from television netted him $7 million and on future reruns, he earned up to 80% of the profits.[24]

Liberace learned early on to add "schmaltz " to his television show and to cater to the tastes of the mass audience by joking and chatting to the camera as if performing in the viewer's own living room. He also used dramatic lighting, split images, costume changes, and exaggerated hand movements to create visual interest. His television performances featured enthusiasm and humor.

Liberace also employed "ritualistic domesticity", used by such early TV greats as  Jack Benny   and  Lucille Ball .[37]   His brother George often appeared as guest violinist and orchestra director, and his mother was usually in the front row of the audience, with brother Rudy and sister Angelina often mentioned to lend an air of "family." Liberace began each show in the same way, then mixed production numbers with chat, and signed off each broadcast softly singing "I'll Be Seeing You ", which he made his theme song. His musical selections were broad, including classics,  show tunes , film melodies, Latin rhythms, ethnic songs, and  boogie-woogie .[38]

The show was so popular with his mostly female television audience, he drew over 30 million viewers at any one time and received 10,000 fan letters per week.[39]   His show was also one of the first to be shown on British commercial television in the 1950s, where it was broadcast on Sunday afternoons by  Lew Grade 's  Associated TeleVision . This exposure gave Liberace a dedicated following in the United Kingdom. Homosexual men also found him appealing. According to author Darden Asbury Pyron, "Liberace was the first gay person  Elton John   had ever seen on television; he became his hero."[40]

After  The Liberace Show [ edit ] Liberace Museum, Las Vegas, 2003

In 1956, Liberace had his first international engagement, playing successfully in  Havana ,  Cuba . He followed up with a European tour later that year. Always a devout  Catholic , Liberace considered his meeting with Pope  Pius XII   a highlight of his life.[41]   In 1960, Liberace performed at the  London Palladium   with  Nat King Cole   and  Sammy Davis, Jr.   (this was the first televised "command performance ", now known as the  Royal Variety Performance , for  Queen Elizabeth II ).

On July 19, 1957, hours after Liberace gave a deposition in his $25 million  libel   suit against  Confidential   magazine, two masked intruders attacked his mother in the garage of Liberace's home in  Sherman Oaks . She was beaten and kicked, but her heavy  corset   may have protected her from being badly injured. Liberace was not informed about the assault until he finished his midnight show at the  Moulin Rouge   nightclub. Guards were hired to watch over Liberace's house and the houses of his two brothers.

Despite successful European tours, his career had in fact been slumping since 1957, but Liberace built it back up by appealing directly to his fan base. Through live appearances in small-town  supper clubs , and with television and promotional appearances, he began to regain popularity. On November 22, 1963, he suffered  kidney failure , reportedly from accidentally inhaling excessive amounts of  dry cleaning   fumes from his newly cleaned costumes in a  Pittsburgh   dressing room, and nearly died. He later said that what saved him from further injury was being woken up by his entourage to the news that  John F. Kennedy   had been  assassinated . Told by doctors that his condition was fatal, he began to spend his entire fortune by buying extravagant gifts of furs, jewels, and even a house for friends, but then recovered after a month.[42]

Re-energized, Liberace returned to Las Vegas, and upping the glamor and glitz, he took on the sobriquet "Mr. Showmanship."[43]   As his act swelled with spectacle, he famously stated, "I'm a one-man  Disneyland ."[44]   The costumes became more exotic (ostrich feathers, mink, capes, and huge rings), entrances and exits more elaborate (chauffeured onstage in a Rolls-Royce or dropped in on a wire like  Peter Pan ), choreography more complex (involving chorus girls, cars, and animals), and the novelty acts especially talented, with juvenile acts including Australian singer  Jamie Redfern   and Canadian banjo player  Scotty Plummer .[45]   Barbra Streisand   was the most notable new adult act he introduced, appearing with him early in her career.[46]

Liberace's energy and commercial ambitions took him in many directions. He owned an antiques store in  Beverly Hills, California , and a restaurant in Las Vegas for many years. He even published cookbooks, the most famous of these being  Liberace Cooks , co-authored by cookbook guru  Carol Truax , which included "Liberace Lasagna" and "Liberace Sticky Buns." The book features recipes "from his seven dining rooms" (of his Hollywood home).

Liberace's live shows during the 1970s–80s remained major box-office attractions at the  Las Vegas Hilton   and  Lake Tahoe , where he earned $300,000 a week.

In 1970, Liberace competed against Irish actor  Richard Harris   for the purchase of  the Tower House , in  Holland Park , west London. Harris eventually bought the house after discovering that Liberace had agreed to buy it, but had not yet put down a deposit.[47]   British entertainer  Danny La Rue   visited The Tower House with Liberace and later recounted in his autobiography a paranormal experience that he had there with him.[48]

Later television work [ edit ]

Liberace also made significant appearances on other shows such as  The Ed Sullivan Show ,  The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford ,  Edward R. Murrow 's  Person to Person , and on the shows of Jack Benny and  Red Skelton , on which he often parodied his own persona. A new  Liberace Show   premiered on  ABC 's daytime schedule in 1958, featuring a less flamboyant, less glamorous persona, but it failed in six months, as his popularity began slumping.[49]   Liberace received a star on the  Hollywood Walk of Fame   in 1960 for his contributions to the television industry. He continued to appear on television as a frequent and welcomed guest on  The Tonight Show   with  Jack Paar   in the 1960s, with memorable exchanges with  Zsa Zsa Gabor   and  Muhammad Ali , and later with Johnny Carson. He was also Red Skelton's 1969 CBS summer replacement with his own variety hour, taped in London. Skelton and Lew Grade's production companies co-produced this program. In a cameo on  The Monkees , he appeared at an  avant garde   art gallery as himself, gleefully smashing a grand piano with a sledgehammer as  Mike Nesmith   looked on and cringed in mock agony.

In the  Batman   television series in 1966 with  Adam West   and  Burt Ward , Liberace played a dual role as concert pianist Chandell and his gangster-like twin Harry, who was extorting Chandell into a life of crime as "Fingers", in the episodes "The Devil's Fingers" and "The Dead Ringers", both written by  Lorenzo Semple Jr. , who had developed  Batman   for television. The episodes of this two-part story were, according to Joel Eisner's  The Official  Batman  Batbook,   the highest-rated of all the show's episodes. His subsequent television appearances included episodes of  Here's Lucy   (1970),  Kojak , and  The Muppet Show   (both 1978), all as himself. His performances in the last of these included a "Concerto for the Birds", "Misty", "Five Foot Two", and a rendition of "Chopsticks ." Television specials were made from Liberace's show at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1978-79 which were broadcast on CBS.

In the 1980s, he guest-starred on television shows such as  Saturday Night Live   (on a  10th season   episode hosted by  Hulk Hogan   and  Mr. T ), and the 1984 film  Special People . In 1985, he appeared at the first  WrestleMania   as the guest timekeeper for the main event.[50]

Films [ edit ] Liberace in 1968

Even before his arrival in Hollywood in 1947, Liberace wanted to add acting to his list of accomplishments. His exposure to the Hollywood crowd through his club performances led to his first movie appearance in Universal's  South Sea Sinner   (1950), a tropical island drama starring  Macdonald Carey   and  Shelley Winters , in which he was 14th-billed as "a  Hoagy Carmichael   sort of character with long hair."[51]   Liberace also appeared as a guest star in two compilation features for  RKO Radio Pictures .  Footlight Varieties   (1951) is an imitation-vaudeville hour and a little-known sequel,  Merry Mirthquakes   (1953), featured Liberace as master of ceremonies.

In 1955, Liberace was at the height of his career when tapped by Warner Bros. for his first starring motion picture,  Sincerely Yours   (1955), a remake of  The Man Who Played God   (1932), as a concert pianist who turns his efforts toward helping others when his career is cut short by deafness. In April 1955,  Modern Screen   magazine claimed  Doris Day   had been most often mentioned as Liberace's leading lady, "but it is doubtful that Doris will play the role. Liberace’s name alone will pack theatres and generous Liberace would like to give a newcomer a break." (Joanne Dru , an established movie actress, was the leading lady.) When  Sincerely Yours   was released in November, the studio mounted an ad and poster campaign with Liberace's name in huge, eccentric, building-block letters above and much larger than the title. "Fabulously yours in his first starring motion picture!" was a tag line. The other players and staff were smallish at the bottom. The film was a critical and commercial failure since Liberace proved unable to translate his eccentric on-stage persona to that of a movie leading man. Warner quickly issued a  pressbook   ad supplement with new "Starring" billing below the title, in equal plain letters: "Liberace, Joanne Dru,  Dorothy Malone ". TCM's  Robert Osborne   recalls a more dramatic demotion: When  Sincerely Yours   played first run at the Orpheum in Seattle, the billing was altered even more: Joanne Dru, Dorothy Malone, and  Alex Nicol   above the title (with big head shots of all three) and below the title in much smaller letters: "with Liberace at the piano". Originally,  Sincerely Yours   was meant to be the first of a two-picture movie contract, but it proved a massive box-office flop. The studio then bought back the contract, effectively paying Liberace not to make a second movie.

The experience left Liberace so shaken that he largely abandoned his movie aspirations. He made two more big-screen appearances, but only in cameo roles. These were  When the Boys Meet the Girls   (1965), starring  Connie Francis , where Liberace essentially played himself. He received kudos for his brief appearance as a casket salesman in  The Loved One   (1965), based on  Evelyn Waugh 's satire of the funeral business and movie industry in  Southern California .

Recordings [ edit ]

The massive success of Liberace's syndicated television show was the main impetus behind his record sales. From 1947–51, he recorded 10 discs. By 1954, it jumped to nearly 70.[52]   He released several recordings through  Columbia Records   including  Liberace by Candlelight   (later on Dot and through direct television advertising) and sold over 400,000 albums by 1954. His most popular single was "Ave Maria", selling over 300,000 copies.[53]

His albums included pop standards of the time, such as "Hello, Dolly! ", and also included his interpretations of the classical piano repertoire such as Chopin and Liszt, although many fans of classical music widely criticized them (as well as Liberace's skills as a pianist in general) for being "pure fluff with minimal musicianship". In his life, he received six gold records.

People's Choice Awards From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia People's Choice Awards 43rd People's Choice Awards People's Choice Awards logo.svg Country     United States First awarded     March 3, 1975 Official website     peopleschoice.com Television/radio coverage Network     CBS The People's Choice Awards is an American awards show, recognizing the people and the work of popular culture, voted on by the general public.[1] The show has been held annually since 1975.[2][3] The People's Choice Awards is broadcast on CBS and is produced by Procter & Gamble and Mark Burnett. In Canada, it is shown on Global. On April 6, 2017, E! announced they would begin airing the show in 2018; they also announced they would begin overseeing the awards' digital, social and voting platforms.[4] The award show's creator was Bob Stivers, who produced the first show in 1975.[5][6] The first awards recognized The Sting as Favorite Picture of 1974, Barbra Streisand as the year's Favorite Film Actress, and John Wayne as its Favorite Film Actor.[7] Ratings for the annual event peaked in 1977, when the third People's Choice Awards attracted 35.3 million viewers who witnessed Farrah Fawcett win the award for Favorite Female TV Star, Star Wars win as the Favorite Picture, and Streisand and Wayne win again in the Film Actress and Actor categories. Ceremonies #     Date     Host         #     Date     Host         #     Date     Host 1st     March 3, 1975     Army Archerd Richard Crenna     21st     March 5, 1995     Tim Daly Annie Potts     41st     January 7, 2015     Anna Faris Allison Janney 2nd     February 19, 1976     Jack Albertson     22nd     March 10, 1996     Brett Butler     42nd     January 6, 2016     Jane Lynch 3rd     February 10, 1977     Dick Van Dyke     23rd     January 12, 1997     Don Johnson Roma Downey     43rd     January 18, 2017     Joel McHale 4th     February 20, 1978         24th     January 11, 1998     Reba McEntire Ray Romano     5th     March 7, 1979     Army Archerd Dick Van Dyke     25th     January 13, 1999     Ray Romano 6th     January 24, 1980     Mariette Hartley Bert Parks     26th     January 9, 2000     Don Johnson Cheech Marin 7th     March 8, 1981     Army Archerd Lee Remick     27th     January 7, 2001     Kevin James 8th     March 18, 1982     Army Archerd John Forsythe     28th     January 13, 2002 9th     March 17, 1983     Dick Van Dyke     29th     January 12, 2003     Tony Danza 10th     March 15, 1984     Andy Williams     30th     January 11, 2004     Charlie Sheen Jon Cryer 11th     March 12, 1985     John Forsythe     31st     January 9, 2005     Jason Alexander Malcolm Jamal Warner 12th     March 13, 1986     John Denver     32nd     January 10, 2006     Craig Ferguson 13th     March 14, 1987     Dick Van Dyke     33rd     January 9, 2007     Queen Latifah 14th     March 13, 1988     Carl Reiner     34th     January 8, 2008 15th     August 23, 1989     Michael Landon Michele Lee     35th     January 7, 2009 16th     March 11, 1990     Valerie Harper Fred Savage Army Archerd Barbara Mandrell     36th     January 6, 2010 17th     March 11, 1991     Burt Reynolds     37th     January 5, 2011 18th     March 17, 1992     Kenny Rogers     38th     January 11, 2012     Kaley Cuoco 19th     March 17, 1993     John Ritter Jane Seymour     39th     January 9, 2013 20th     March 8, 1994     Paul Reiser     40th     January 8, 2014     Beth Behrs Kat Dennings
Your browser does not support JavaScript. To view this page, enable JavaScript if it is disabled or upgrade your browser.
  • Condition: brand new plastic license.
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

PicClick Insights - LIBERACE / Tropicana Ave Las Vegas Nevada NV card Drivers License Heger PicClick Exclusive

  •  Popularity - 5 sold, 10 available. 1 watcher, 0.0 new watchers per day, 2,129 days for sale on eBay. Normal amount watching.
  •  Best Price -
  •  Seller - 7,034+ items sold. 0.5% negative feedback. Top-Rated Plus! Top-Rated Seller, 30-day return policy, ships in 1 business day with tracking.

People Also Loved PicClick Exclusive