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Billy B. Van (born William Webster Van de Grift; August 3, 1870 – November 16, 1950) was a prominent American entertainer in the early decades of the 1900s.He was a star, progressively, in minstrel shows, vaudeville, burlesque, the New York stage, and movies.
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]
La Vie en Rose (literally Life in pink, French pronunciation: [la vi ɑ̃ ʁoz]; [note 1] French: La Môme) [note 2] is a 2007 French biographical musical film about the life of French singer Édith Piaf. The film was co-written and directed by Olivier Dahan, and stars Marion Cotillard as Piaf. The UK and US title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf ...
George H. Primrose (November 12, 1852 – July 23, 1919) was a Canadian-American entertainer who was a minstrel performer in vaudeville. He was one half of the duo of Primrose and West with William H. West. [1]
Silas Green from New Orleans was an African-American owned and run variety tent show that, in various forms, toured the Southern States from about 1904 through 1957. Part-revue, part-musicomedy, part-minstrel show, the show told the adventures of short, "coal-black" Silas Green and tall, "tannish" Lilas Bean.
The 2007 film La Vie en Rose, a biopic of Piaf’s life, is named in reference to the song. Season 9, Episode 16 (2014) of How I Met Your Mother features Cristin Milioti singing La Vie en Rose. The song is a key plot point in the 1954 Billy Wilder film Sabrina starring Audrey Hepburn. Lady Gaga performs the song in the 2018 A Star is Born remake.
Thomas Dartmouth Rice (May 20, 1808 – September 19, 1860) was an American performer and playwright who performed in blackface and used African American vernacular speech, song and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time. He is considered the "father of American minstrelsy".
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.