So You Want to be in Show Business!: A History of Australian Entertainment

Although this beautiful publication is essentially is an autobiography, it’s also part of the history of the Australian entertainment industry and a portrayal of show business as it broadened and grew from the days of vaudeville right up until today. So You Want To Be In Show Business? tells honestly and entertainingly, through the eyes of Val Jellay, some wonderful aspects of experiencing life in show business, which for Val began when she was only four years of age. Supported by an incredibly interesting and beautiful range of photographs dating back decades, the book is a superb account of Val’s show business life from vaudeville and the Tivoli in Australia before, during, and after the Second World War to the heady days doing the London circuit where she and her party took the English stage by storm. Meet many of the celebrities that helped make Australian television what it is today.