Happy 4th of July With the Iconic American Showman Liberace. Never Forget By Greg Schreiner
Happy 4th of July With the Iconic American Showman Liberace. Never Forget.
By Greg Schreiner
I own a huge collection of over 500 movie costumes worn by the great stars of the golden age Hollywood and have been asked to feature something special befitting the month of June. I also utilize my costumes in a show, Hollywood Revisited (www.hollywoodrevisited.com). Here is the story of one costume from my collection …
As July is a month for patriotic remembrance, what better costume to revisit than this spectacular one worn by Liberace. This is one of Liberace’s best known costumes dating from 1971. Liberace wrote of its creation: “I was in San Francisco, when I was contacted by a fellow from Poland…he said he’d like to make me a leather outfit. So I went to his shop and discovered he was designing and studding leather jackets in patriotic colors-red, white and blue. Now this was during the craze for hotpants. I got the idea of having him make me a hotpants outfit in red, white and blue, all in leather with a little leather fringe. It seemed to me just the right outfit to wear at fancy dress parties.
Liberace goes on to write that he wore the costume backstage one night as a joke and the other musicians convinced him that he needed to wear it on stage. “The more I thought about it, the more I realized that if my colleagues had reacted to it so favorably, then my audience would probably LOVE IT… I had all the leather studded with rhinestones to make it sparkle and wore it for the first time at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. It created a sensation”
And now I get to wear it in my show, Hollywood Revisited and since Liberace was my idol growing up, this costume is very special to me.
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Performers Sparkle in Hollywood Movie Costumes. Experience what it's like to watch the stars walk the red carpet as your favorite Tinseltown classics come to life in Hollywood Revisited.
Greg Schreiner is the pianist, narrator and producer of Hollywood Revisited. He has appeared on numerous television programs including AMC's Hollywood Fashion Machine, A&E's The Incurable Collector, Entertainment Tonight, Hard Copy and The Montel Williams Show. All have featured various movie costumes from his vast personal collection. Some of these costumes are on display at the new Hollywood Museum in Hollywood, California. Mr. Schreiner serves on the piano faculty at Cerritos College and Santa Monica College, has several recordings in release and was composer/performer for the educational television series Masters of the Silent Screen. Greg also is an active participant in the music community of Southern California as the accompanist for the Mansfield Chamber Singers of Beverly Hills. He is also the president of Marilyn Remembered, a club devoted to preserving the memory of Marilyn Monroe. Greg Schreiner is truly a renaissance man!