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The Four Cohans was a late 19th-century American vaudeville family act that introduced 20th-century Broadway legend George M. Cohan to show business. It consisted of father Jeremiah "Jere" Cohan (1848–1917), mother Helen "Nellie" Costigan Cohan (1854–1928), daughter Josephine "Josie" Cohan Niblo (1876–1916), and son George M. Cohan (1878–1942).
In 1890, he toured as the star of a show called Peck's Bad Boy [5] and then joined the family act. The Four Cohans mostly toured together from 1890 to 1901. Cohan and his sister made their Broadway debuts in 1893 in a sketch called The Lively Bootblack. Temperamental in his early years, he later learned to control his frustrations.
Jerry and Nellie Cohan waste no time adding their young son to their travelling vaudeville act, "The Four Cohans", with sister Josie. By the time George is 20, they are playing the Columbia Theatre in Cedar Rapids, and George has landed an audition for the family with impresario E. F. Albee. But Albee doesn't make a good enough offer, and ...
Other members of The Four Cohans in the cast were his parents, and his then wife Ethel Levey, who had replaced Cohan's sister Josie in the family act. [3] [4] Cast
He managed the Four Cohans in their two big successes: The Governor's Son and Running for Office. From 1904 to 1905, Fred resumed his stage career, appearing as Walter Lee Leonard in The Rogers Brothers in Paris and then returned to vaudeville. [2] Josephine died in 1916, the year he began acting and directing motion pictures.
George M. Cohan's first Broadway show, The Governor's Son (starring the Four Cohans), opened, but would close after a month because of a disastrous first night in front of the critics. [ 137 ] U.S. Steel was incorporated in New Jersey by industrialist J. P. Morgan , as the first billion-dollar corporation, with total capital valued at more than ...
The film flashes back to Cohan's supposed July 4 birth while his father is performing on the vaudeville stage. Cohan and his sister join the family act as soon as they learn to dance, and soon The Four Cohans are performing successfully. But George gets cocky as he grows up and is blacklisted by theatrical producers for being troublesome.
George M. Cohan (1878–1942), American entertainer (member of Four Cohans) Helen Cohan (1910–1996), American stage dancer, film actress; Lauren Cohan (born 1982), English-American actress; Peter Cohan, American businessman; Robert Cohan (1925–2021), British-American dancer and choreographer; Ryan Cohan (born 1971), American jazz pianist ...