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Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson, Yiddish: אַסאַ יואלסאָן; May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-born American singer, actor, and vaudevillian.. He was one of the United States' most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1920s, [2] and was self-billed as "The World's Greatest Entertainer". [3]
Newlyweds Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler aboard the Olympic in September 1928 Una Merkel, Ruby Keeler, and Ginger Rogers in 42nd Street (1933). Around 1923, when she was around 14 years old, she was hired by Nils Granlund, the publicity manager for Loews Theaters, who also served as the stage-show producer for Texas Guinan at Larry Fay's El Fay nightclub, a speakeasy frequented by gangsters.
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In May 2000 Farber married Henrietta Schleider née Keller (1915–2011). [17] Upon his death in 2014 he was survived by his daughter. [10] He is buried in the Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery in Columbia, South Carolina. [18]
Family members and friends have begun identifying the 15 people who died in the truck-ramming attack early Wednesday morning on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. The suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was ...
Henrietta McBrayer Buckler Seiberling (March 18, 1888 – December 5, 1979) was a member of a Christian fellowship group named the Oxford Group. Seiberling is well-known for connecting the two men who would found Alcoholics Anonymous .
Müller was born in Valparaíso, Chile to William Müller, a German businessman, and Maria Henrietta Müller who was English. [1] As a child, she received little in the way of formal schooling but spoke six languages and was admitted to Girton College at the University of Cambridge in 1873.
Henrietta and Pete Robbins are a young couple in Brooklyn struggling to get by on the income he earns as a cab driver. His pompous sister-in-law Helen delights in reminding them that an early marriage robbed him of a college education and how much better off she and her husband Fred are.