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Trapeze artist and later silent film actress, Bennett, following a career in vaudeville, entered film in 1916 and worked through the end of the age of silent films. [100] Richard Bennett: 1870 1944 American Actor who appeared in a sketch from the play The Common Man. [5] Jack Benny: February 14, 1894 December 26, 1974 American
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
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]
The January 1952 episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour included the sketch, once again with Abbott and Costello, but with Errol Flynn playing the delusional man. [5] The Three Stooges performed the sketch in Gents Without Cents, a 1944 short, as part of a show they put on within the movie. In their version, Moe is the storyteller and Curly the ...
A promotional poster for the Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles (1894), showing dancers, clowns, trapeze artists, costumed dogs, singers and costumed actors. 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]
Eva Puck became a member of the vaudeville comedy act Clayton and White that, after Lew Clayton's departure around 1920, became known as Puck and White. One of their popular vaudeville sketches ("Opera vs. Jazz") portrayed White as a scholarly music teacher and Eva as his inept student. The couple married in 1922.
Rock adopted the name Marie Blake for her film career, beginning as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player in 1937 with an uncredited appearance in My Dear Miss Aldrich.Her first credited major part was Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938), and she then played her most notable onscreen role as Sally, the hospital switchboard operator, in the nine films that comprised MGM's popular Dr. Kildare series ...
Odette Myrtil (born Odette Laure Clotilde Quignarde; June 28, 1898 – November 18, 1978) [2] was a French-born American actress, singer, and violinist. She began her career as a violinist on the vaudeville stage in Paris at 14.