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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.
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 ...
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, 27 P) M. Music hall performers (9 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Vaudeville performers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...
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 ...
Hindle and Wesner worked together on the vaudeville circuit, and sang some of the same songs, [6] both using a husky, contralto voice for their performances. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Wesner's career was also closely linked to the vaudeville impresario Tony Pastor , for whom she was the featured male impersonator, performing at Pastor's theater and touring ...
In 1908, she performed a Salome dance as part of the Bandanna Land musical revue at New York’s Grand Opera House. She reprised the performance in 1912 on Broadway at Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre. [4] In 1910, Overton Walker joined the Smart Set Company. During this time, she began touring the vaudeville circuit as a solo act.