All Entries Tagged With: "Vaudeville"
Babes in Arms (1939)
Director(s):Busby Berkeley Writer(s):Jack McGowan (screen play),Kay Van Riper (screen play) Cast(s):Mickey Rooney,Soha Ali Khan,Mrinalini Sharma,Mohan Kapoor,Yatin Karyekar,Ankur Tewari,Siddharath Coutto,Manu Rishi,Jyamin Ali,Angie,Aqeel,Bani,Harjit Soni Bhoondpal,Anisa Butt,Sagar Chavan,Marilyn Monroe,Rand Brooks,Nana Bryant,Eddie Garr,Steven Geray,The Bobby True Trio,Bill Robinson,Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra,Katherine Dunham and Her Troupe,Fats Waller,The Nicholas Brothers,Ada Brown,Dooley Wilson,Cab Calloway,Katherine Dunham,The Tramp Band,Leslie Nielsen,Walter Brennan,Mala [...]
Charmian Carr
Date of Birth: 27 December 1942 Birth Name: Charmian Anne Farnon Nickname: Charmy Height: 5′ 3" (1.60 m) Mini Biography: Charmian Carr was born Charmian Farnon on December 27, 1942. She got her name because supposedly her father liked the name after reading William Shakespear's Antony and Cleopatra. Charmian was the name of one of [...]
J. Stuart Blackton
Date of Birth: 5 January 1875 Birth Name: James Stuart Blackton Mini Biography: J. Stuart Blackton came to the US with his family from Sheffield, England, in 1885 at age 10, settling in New York. He became friends with Albert E. Smith – who later became his business partner and headed Vitagraph Studios – in [...]
James Barton
Date of Birth: 1 November 1890 Birth Name: James Barton Jr. Mini Biography: Former vaudeville song-and-dance man best remembered as "Kit" Carson in 'The Time of Your Life' (1948). Trivia: Screen, vaudeville, and burlesque actor. Introduced Babe Ruth to Mrs. Babe Ruth (then Claire Hodgson) before a New York Yankees-Washington Senators game in Washington. Hodgson [...]
Clem Bevans
Date of Birth: 16 October 1879 Birth Name: Clement Guy Blevins Mini Biography: Born in 1879, Clem Bevans spent most of his performing career on the stage. First appearing in 1900 in a vaudeville act with Grace Emmett as a boy and girl act, he would move on to burlesque and eventually make the move [...]
Helen Broderick
Date of Birth: 11 August 1891 Mini Biography: Helen Broderick was a wonderfully funny character comedienne with vaudeville and stage experience, a close friend of Jeanne Eagels. The story goes, that at the age of 14 she ran away from home, because her mother, who appeared in operatic comedy, was totally obsessed by the theatre. [...]
David Brian
Date of Birth: 5 August 1914 Height: 6′ 4" (1.93 m) Mini Biography: New Yorker, who, after schooling at City College, found work as a doorman, before entering show business with a song-and-dance routine in vaudeville and in night clubs. He did a wartime stint with the Coast Guard and returned to acting on the [...]
Binnie Barnes
Date of Birth: 25 March 1903 Birth Name: Gittel Enoyce Barnes (later called Gertrude Maude Barnes) Height: 5′ 5" (1.65 m) Mini Biography: British-born actress who appeared in both British and American films, but who found her greatest success in Hollywood second leads. After a variety of jobs, including nurse, chorus girl and milkmaid, Barnes [...]