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Dancer and actor known for his "loose-limbed, comic" dancing style. Appeared on Broadway in On Your Toes and By Jupiter. Best known film role is the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. [124] [125] Bessie Bonehill: February 17, 1855 August 21, 1902 British Male impersonator, Bonehill first appeared on the American vaudeville in 1889.
At the age of three, Rosie Marie Mazzetta started performing as a singer and dancer in vaudeville under the name "Baby Rose Marie." At five, she left vaudeville to become a radio star on NBC and after that made a series of films. Later, as Rose Marie, she appeared in both films and television series. Pauline Markham: May, 1847 March 20, 1919
A. Abbott and Costello; Gypsy Abbott; Una Abell-Brinker; Jean Acker; Belle Adair (actress) Janet Adair; Ted Adams (actor) Julius Adler (actor) Larry Adler; Stella Adler
Sources give various alternate spellings of her name, including Jeanette, Jenette and Jeannette. She was trained as a dancer by Kitty Doner, and performed in the chorus of The Passing Show, and as a nightclub dancer, before replacing Billie Shaw in the vaudeville act of Seabury and Shaw in the late 1910s. When Seabury also retired, Hackett ...
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
Types of acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, ventriloquists, strongmen, female and male impersonators, acrobats, clowns, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and films. A vaudeville performer is often ...
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She also toured with the Black Swan Dance Masters. She first recorded for Columbia in 1925, achieving a hit with "Dinah". With Earl Dancer, she joined what was called the "white time" Keith Vaudeville Circuit, a vaudeville circuit performing for white audiences and combined with screenings of silent movies. They received rave reviews in Chicago ...