Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
He started performing in blackface in a minstrel show in about 1850, and joined S. S. Sanford's Minstrels in Philadelphia. He toured widely in the U.S. and Canada, with several minstrel shows including Bryant's Minstrels and Campbell's Minstrels. [2] Described as an "Ethiopian Comedian", Unsworth sang Irish songs and played the banjo
The Virginia Minstrels put on a full minstrel show at the New York Bowery Amphitheatre on 6 February 1843. Whitlock was the most famous of the foursome, [5] but soon all four names became well known as they toured New York and Boston. Whitlock's banjo was long-necked and four-stringed, though a fifth was added by 1844.
Eddie Leonard (October 17, 1870 [citation needed] – July 28, 1941), born Lemuel Gordon Toney, was a vaudevillian and a man considered the greatest American minstrel of his day, at a time when minstrel shows were an acceptable and popular mainstream entertainment in the United States. [1]
In 2011, he returned to telenovelas in Una familia con suerte as Vicente Irabien, alongside Daniela Castro and Mayrín Villanueva. [6]In July 2013, he was confirmed to star in the Angelli Nesma production Lo que la vida me robó, together with a ensemble cast consisting of Daniela Castro, Angelique Boyer and Luis Roberto Guzmán.
West was born on June 18, 1853, in Syracuse, New York. [1]He often produced and played minstrel shows with George H. Primrose, first with a minstrel troupe owned by J. H. Haverly, and later in a show known as Primrose and West starring entertainers Milt G. Barlow and George Wilson, under the management of Henry J. Sayers.
Many of these harmful characters were created for minstrel shows, the most popular form of entertainment in the United States in the 1800s. "Minstrel show entertainment was a kind of precursor to ...
Salinas played leading roles in the telenovelas Tres mujeres (1999), Mi Destino Eres Tú (2000), Las Vías del Amor (2002), Mariana de la Noche (2003) and La esposa virgen (2005). In 2008, Salinas was one of the leading actors of the successful telenovela Fuego en la sangre , where he shared credits with Adela Noriega and Eduardo Yáñez .
Osvaldo de León (born May 6, 1984) is an American actor and model.He debuted on television in 2007 in the Mexican telenovela Palabra de Mujer, playing Ariel Castellanos.. Osvaldo has participated in several plays and Mexican movies, and since its inception with Televisa has participated in several soap operas such as Juro que te amo, Niña de mi Corazón, Una familia con suerte, Lo que la ...