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He started performing in blackface in a minstrel show in about 1850, and joined S. S. Sanford's Minstrels in Philadelphia. He toured widely in the U.S. and Canada, with several minstrel shows including Bryant's Minstrels and Campbell's Minstrels. [2] Described as an "Ethiopian Comedian", Unsworth sang Irish songs and played the banjo
They billed their shows as blackface "concerts" and added songs of a sentimental, romantic nature, even going so far as to perform pieces from popular operas. In exchange, they cut out bawdy, humorous material like that used by the Virginia Minstrels and other troupes, and saw great success with this formula.
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 ...
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.
Many of these harmful characters were created for minstrel shows, the most popular form of entertainment in the United States in the 1800s. "Minstrel show entertainment was a kind of precursor to ...
The Virginia Minstrels put on a full minstrel show at the New York Bowery Amphitheatre on 6 February 1843. Whitlock was the most famous of the foursome, [5] but soon all four names became well known as they toured New York and Boston. Whitlock's banjo was long-necked and four-stringed, though a fifth was added by 1844.
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.