All Entries Tagged With: "Vaudeville"
Frank McHugh
Date of Birth: 23 May 1898 Birth Name: Francis Curray McHugh Height: 5′ 7″ (1.70 m) Mini Biography: The parents of Frank McHugh ran their own stock company and he was on the stage as a child. When he was 10 he was part of an act that include his brother Matt McHugh and sister [...]
Ray McDonald
Date of Birth: 27 June 1920 Height: 5′ 11″ (1.80 m) Mini Biography: Indefatigable Ray McDonald was born to dance and dance he did. A New York City native born June 27, 1921, Ray was still in grade school when he and older sister (by three years) Grace McDonald formed a popular vaudeville tap dancing [...]
Grace McDonald
Date of Birth: 15 June 1918 Mini Biography: Between 1942 and 1945 there was a pert, sweet-faced “B”-level cutie who knew how to swing with the best of them at Universal. The beautiful dancer/singer might have gone on to better things but ended her career abruptly for marriage and never looked back. Grace McDonald, who [...]
May McAvoy
Date of Birth: 8 September 1899 Height: 4′ 11″ (1.50 m) Mini Biography: Silent screen star May McAvoy was born in an upper scale area of New York City. Her well-to-do family owned and operated a large livery stable situated where the Waldorf-Astoria now stands. She initially wanted to be a teacher but became intrigued [...]
Eugene Mazzola
Date of Birth: 2 March 1948 Mini Biography: Eugene Mazzola was born in Hollywood, California, to a large family, all in the film business. His father was Leonard Al Mazzola, who started in Vaudeville in 1915. His mother was Saveria Mazzola, who was in The Godfather: Part II (1974). He is the sixth of seven [...]
Johnny Mathis
Date of Birth: 30 September 1935 Birth Name: John Royce Mathis Height: 5′ 7½” (1.71 m) Mini Biography: He was the fourth of seven children born to Clement and Mildred Mathis. His father performed briefly in vaudeville and exposed all of the Mathis siblings to music. Before he entered his teens, young John received vocal [...]
Sarah and Son (1930)
Director(s): Dorothy Arzner Writer(s): Zoe Akins, Timothy Shea Cast(s): Ruth Chatterton, Fredric March, Fuller Mellish Jr., Gilbert Emery, Doris Lloyd, William Stack, Philippe De Lacy Plot: A ne’er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up selling him to a wealthy family…
Harpo Marx
Date of Birth: 23 November 1888 Birth Name: Adolph Marx Height: 5′ 5½” (1.66 m) Mini Biography: With the big, poofy, curly red hair, a top hat, and a horn, the lovable mute was the favorite of the Marx Brothers. Though chasing woman was a favorite routine of his in the movies, Harpo was a [...]