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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
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]
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]
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 ...
Other shows she acted in included My Geraldine (1896, in Montreal), [2] Mr. Hopkinson (1909 tour, including Seattle and San Francisco) [6] [7] and More Sinned Against Than Usual (1912-1913), [8] [9] "a high-class travesty sketch". [10] She performed in vaudeville in an all-woman show called Beauty is Only Skin Deep (1914-1915). [11]
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.
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.