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Sally Marr (December 30, 1906 – December 14, 1997) was an American stand-up comic, dancer and actress who is best known as being the mother of legendary comic Lenny Bruce, whose act she influenced. [ 1 ]
Arlington West: The Film is a 2006 documentary about the Iraq War by Peter Dudar and Sally Marr.The title refers to Arlington West, the "temporary cemeteries" in Santa Barbara and Santa Monica, California which serve as memorials to those who have been killed in Iraq.
The film was narrated by Robert De Niro. [7] [8] It featured interviews include Lenny's ex-wife Honey, mother Sally Marr and former TV host Steve Allen, [9] who had Bruce on his show a few times albeit clean unlike his nightclub stand-up jokes.
Influenced by the stand-up comedy of Lenny Bruce, Rivers co-wrote and starred in a play about Bruce's mother Sally Marr, who was also a comic and influenced her son's development as a comic. After 27 previews, Sally Marr ... and Her Escorts, a play "suggested by the life of Sally Marr" ran on Broadway for 50 performances in May and June 1994. [75]
By PATRICIA REANEY (Reuters) - The New York clinic where comedian Joan Rivers stopped breathing a week before her death denied on Wednesday ever administering general anesthesia or conducting a ...
His British-born father, Myron (Mickey) Schneider, was a shoe clerk; they saw each other very infrequently. His mother, Sally Marr (legal name Sadie Schneider, born Sadie Kitchenberg), was a stage performer and dancer [8] who had an enormous influence on his career. [9] Bruce grew up in Bellmore, New York and attended Wellington C. Mepham High ...
A gangster who operates a sleazy dance hall uses a sadistic bodyguard to keep his girls afraid and his customers in line. A merchant marine seaman is found murdered at the place and suspicion quickly falls upon the operator of a dime-a-dance honky tonk joint.
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