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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
They started their career in their parents' act, Wolff's Juvenile Orchestra. By 1902, billed as "Fanchon and Marco" they started performing together as dancers in vaudeville. By 1919, they started producing revues together, and their first major success was a 1921 touring show, Sun-Kist, featuring a chorus line of dancers. [1] [2] [3]
Female impersonators (1 C, 28 P) M. Music hall performers (9 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Vaudeville performers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...