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Actress of the legitimate stage who appeared in vaudeville in a sketch, Maggie Taylor, Waitress. Adair usually played mothers and elderly aunts onstage following her New York debut in 1922. One of her best known roles was as Aunt Martha in the play, Arsenic and Old Lace. [5] [6] Milton Ager: October 6, 1893 May 6, 1979 American Pianist and ...
Mabel Bardine Myers Farnsworth (October 25, 1878 - October 20, 1948), was an American vaudeville performer and Hollywood actress. In 1908 she was accused of plagiarizing the sketch, The Chorus Lady, from Rose Stahl. [1] She was a leading woman in Essanay Studios and Fox Film. [2]
Actress in her parents' vaudeville act. Ella Shields: September 26, 1879 August 5, 1952 American-British Male impersonator and singer. [232] Ethel Shutta: December 1, 1896 February 5, 1976 American Actress and later Ziegfeld Girl who toured with her mother, Augusta, and her brother, Jack, as The Three Shuttas. Martinus Sieveking: March 24, 1867
Vaudeville (/ ˈ v ɔː d (ə) v ɪ l, ˈ v oʊ-/; [1] French: ⓘ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century. [2] A Vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition or light poetry, interspersed with songs ...
Hilda Keenan (November 1891 – August 20, 1940) was an American actress and vaudeville performer, part of a family of actors including her father Frank Keenan, her husband Ed Wynn, and her son Keenan Wynn.
In 1916, she was still in vaudeville, in an act with her husband, Texas actor Ford West. [ 12 ] Milloy's advice to women, as recorded in a 1914 interview, was this: "Women should read, study, make an effort to have their mental equipment modern and useful.
Ray Cox (September 18, 1881 - November 7, 1957) was an early 20th century American actress and vaudeville performer.. Cox was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, attended South Division High School in Chicago, and went to Vassar College.
Edith Marie Blossom MacDonald (August 21, 1895 – January 14, 1978), also known as Blossom Rock, was an American actress of vaudeville, stage, film and television. During her career she was also billed as Marie Blake or Blossom MacDonald. Her younger sister was screen actress and singer Jeanette MacDonald. [2]