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Jessel was born to Jewish parents, [2] Joseph and Charlotte "Lottie" (née Schwarz) [3] Jessel, on 118th Street in Harlem, New York City. [4] By age 10, he was appearing in vaudeville and on Broadway to support his family after the death of his father, who was a playwright.
This is a partial list of vaudeville performers. ... George Jessel: April 3, 1898 May 23, 1981 American Actor, monologist, minstrel, and singer. [421] Jack Johnson:
The story of vaudeville performer Eva Tanguay is told to a couple of writers who plan to do a script about her for Hollywood producer George Jessel. Her former partner Eddie McCoy tells how they met. Recently widowed, he discovered Eva as a waitress, hearing her sing and offering her a job after she's fired.
George Jessel, who was in his third season touring with the stage production of The Jazz Singer, later described what happened to his show—perhaps anticipating how sound would soon cement Hollywood's dominance of the American entertainment industry: "A week or two after the Washington engagement the sound-and-picture version of The Jazz ...
Vaudeville took the form of a series of separate, unrelated acts each featuring different types of performance, including classical and popular musical acts, dance performances, comedy, animal acts, magic and illusions, female and male impersonators, acrobatic and athletic feats, one-act plays or scenes from plays, lectures, minstrels, or even ...
The Vaudevillians: A Dictionary of Vaudeville Performers by Anthony Slide (1981) Arlington House; American Vaudeville as Seen by Its Contemporaries by Charles W. Stein, ed. (1984) Alfred A. Knopf; Eddie Cantor: A Life in Show Business by Gregory Koseluk (1995) McFarland; Eddie Cantor: A Bio-Bibliography by James Fisher (1997) Greenwood Press
Jessel Taank from Bravo's "Real Housewives of New York," poses for a portrait on Sept. 23, 2024 in New York, NY, ahead of the release of Season 15 of the reality show on Oct. 1.
He was a vaudeville singer, and later had his own vaudeville company. He discovered Walter Winchell, Elsie Janis, George Jessel, Eddie Cantor, Groucho Marx, Phil Silvers, Lila Lee, Georgie Price, Eleanor Powell, Hildegarde, Ray Bolger, Sally Rand, Jack Pearl, the Lane Sisters, and Ina Ray Hutton.