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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
Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Lee began his career as Pincus Leff in vaudeville in the 1920s. In January 1925, he was hired by Betty Felsen to be a dancer in the acclaimed Boderick & Felsen vaudeville dancing act. Pincus Leff soon became a featured tap dancer in the act and was often mentioned in advertisements, notices, and reviews.
As stated in Andrew Erdman's book Blue Vaudeville, the Vaudeville stage was "a highly sexualized space ... where unclad bodies, provocative dancers, and singers of 'blue' lyrics all vied for attention." Such performances highlighted and objectified the female body as a "sexual delight", but more than that, historians think that Vaudeville ...
Kaye's first break came in 1933 when he joined the Three Terpsichoreans, a vaudeville dance act. They opened in Utica, New York, where he used the stage name Danny Kaye for the first time. [8] The act toured the United States and in Asia with the show La Vie Paree. [15] The troupe left for a six-month tour of Asia on February 8, 1934.
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Vance DeBar Colvig Sr. (September 11, 1892 – October 3, 1967), known professionally as Pinto Colvig, was an American voice actor, cartoonist, and circus and vaudeville performer whose schtick was playing the clarinet off-key while mugging.