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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 ...
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 ...
Hite returned to vaudeville with her husband, professional baseball player Mike Donlin, in a series of comedic baseball skits. She last appeared in vaudeville in the spring of 1912 in a skit entitled Mabel Hite and Her Clowns. Her last Broadway appearance came the year before at Wallack's Theatre playing 'Norah' in the musical farce A Certain ...
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 ...
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]
Pages in category "American vaudeville performers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,330 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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. [ 13 ] [ 9 ] and together appeared in Broadway shows such as the Greenwich Village Follies (1923), Rodgers and Hart musical The Girl Friend (1926), and Jerome Kern 's Show Boat (1927).