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Vaudeville took the form of a series of separate, unrelated acts each featuring different types of performance, including classical and popular musical acts, dance performances, comedy, animal acts, magic and illusions, female and male impersonators, acrobatic and athletic feats, one-act plays or scenes from plays, lectures, minstrels, or even ...
Actor, comedian, dancer and singer. After vaudeville, Albertson worked in burlesque, on Broadway and in Hollywood, winning a Tony Award, an Emmy Award and an Academy Award. [10] Robert Alda: February 26, 1914 May 3, 1986 American Actor, singer and dancer whose vaudeville career began in earnest after winning a talent contest.
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]
Vaudeville performers, performing in a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vaudeville performers . Contents
Howard "Sandman" Sims (January 24, 1917 – May 20, 2003) was an African-American tap dancer who began his career in vaudeville.He was skilled in a style of dancing that he performed in a wooden sandbox of his own construction, and acquired his nickname from the sand he sprinkled to alter and amplify the sound of his dance steps.
The Marmein Dancers were the daughters of Henry J. “Happy Jack” Marmein [1] (1862-1930), [2] a Chicago area real estate broker who later became an owner of the Gold Bug Mining Company of Arizona [3] [4] and Anna Engleton (1877-1949), [5] [6] in later years a well known lecturer and teacher of philosophy, drama, art, music and language.
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 .
On Samuels's recommendation, Forkins then began to act as agent for dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and over the following decades helped to establish Robinson as the best-paid black entertainer in the United States. [1] Official records indicate that Samuels and Forkins married in 1914, though they later claimed to have married in 1911. [2]