All Entries Tagged With: "Vaudeville"
Joan Blondell
Date of Birth: 30 August 1906 Birth Name: Rose Joan Blondell Height: 5′ 3" (1.60 m) Mini Biography: With blonde hair, big blue eyes and a big smile, Joan was usually cast as the wisecracking working girl who was the lead's best friend. Born into vaudeville to a comic named Eddie, Joan was on the [...]
Ray Bolger
Date of Birth: 10 January 1904 Birth Name: Raymond Wallace Bulcao Height: 5′ 10½" (1.79 m) Mini Biography: Ray Bolger began his career in vaudeville. He was half of a team called "Sanford and Bolger" and also did numerous Broadway shows on his own. He, like Gene Kelly, was a song-and-dance man as well as [...]
Jack Benny
Date of Birth: 14 February 1894 Birth Name: Benjamin Kubelsky Height: 5′ 8" (1.73 m) Mini Biography: The son of a saloonkeeper, Jack Benny (born Benny Kubelsky) began to study the violin at the age six, and his "ineptness" at it later become his trademark (in reality, he was a very accomplished player). When given [...]
Gene Barry
Date of Birth: 14 June 1919 Birth Name: Eugene Klass Height: 6′ (1.83 m) Mini Biography: With effortless class and elegant charm, Gene Barry took 50s and 60s TV by storm after a rather lackluster start on the musical stage and in films. Born Eugene Klass in New York City on June 14, 1919, the [...]
Walter Brennan
Date of Birth: 25 July 1894 Birth Name: Walter Andrew Brennan Height: 5′ 11" (1.80 m) Mini Biography: In many ways the most successful and familiar character actor of American sound films and the only actor to date to win three Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Walter Brennan attended college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying engineering. [...]
Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson
Date of Birth: 21 March 1880 Birth Name: Max H. Aronson Height: 6′ (1.83 m) Mini Biography: American actor-director-writer-producer Gilbert M. Anderson, father of the movie cowboy and the first Western star, was a native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He had worked as a photographer's model and newspaper vendor before drifting into acting. He performed [...]
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Date of Birth: 18 September 1905 Birth Name: Edmund L. Anderson Nickname: Rochester Mini Biography: The son of a minstrel and circus tightrope walker, Eddie Anderson developed a gravel voice early in life which would become his trademark to fame. He joined his older brother Cornelius as members of "The Three Black Aces" during his [...]
When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)
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