1948 Vernon_Hoff 03 - a photo on Flickriver

1948 Vernon_Hoff 03

The inscrition reads "Mr Vernon Hoff, The Sweetest Thing Since 7-Up!"

I found these images of Vernon Hoff on ebay a few months ago. I've renovated some of the blemishes and attempted to restore these publicity stills via some digital manipulation.

There is very little on the internet about this, obviously, very accomplished impersonator. A few hits on Google books reveal that Ms Hoffs was active in the United States and was advertising in Billboard magazine from 1947 through to 1950, hence I have dated these images at around that date as her 1947 advertisment seems to be taken from an extract of these these images. The earliest example (from June 1947) can be seen here and has her listed as a "Female Impersonator, Singer, EmCee, Strip Tease Dancer"

Those various Billboard entrys have Vernon working in California, Detroit, New Orleans (at the My-O-My), Cincinatti , the first of which can be sen here:

books.google.co.uk/books?id=WkUEAAAAMBAJ

The writer of "Grandma's Slump" blog has also been frustrated it seems by the elusiviness of this artiste and has written some insightful observations on the blog here:

www.grandmaslump.com/2010/02/vernon-hoff-female-impersona...

Even the usually comprehensive Queer Music Heritage site has little information also:

queermusicheritage.com/f-hoff-vernon.html

All I can say is that she achieved wonderful results, during what must have been a far less enlightened era.

As always, if anyone out there has any further information on this performer, I would be delighted to hear from you via FlickrMail

Disclaimer: I am not the copyright owner of the image and my publication on flickr is not intended to infringe any such copyright. I seek to make no financial gain from the reproduction. If you are the original copyright owner and wish the image to be removed, please contact myself.

Taken on: October 19, 2014

Tags:

Female Impersonator

Vintage

Vaudeville

Drag Artist

Drag Artiste « less

Sets appears in: • Female Impersonation Ephemera

Groups appears in: • Vintage Transgender Photos (pre-2000)

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