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He appeared in a singing duo ('Giesler & Lewis') and later toured with his dance band, appearing at the Palace in 1919, billed as 'The Jazz King.' He appeared at the Palace again in the late 1920s.Īctor, singer, launched ' After the Ball' Cohan from 1900-1906.īandleader, clarinetist and singer known for using the phrase, 'Is everybody happy?' He appeared in small-time vaudeville before 1917. Singer, began performing at the age of nine with her sisters in an act called, 'The Three Brodels.' She worked briefly as a model and by 1936 was in Hollywood as a child star billed as Joan Brodel. Later a Hollywood director and producer.Īctress with her own vaudeville troupe, Stella Razeto and Company. Toured with an Italian symphony orchestra. By the mid-1940s he was a costume exec and wardrobe director with Twentieth Century Fox where he was nominated for 13 Academy Awards and won 3.Ĭonsidered one of the greatest British Music Hall comedians who first toured the US in 1897.Ĭomposer and conductor. While in New York, he designed costumes for the Ziegfeld Follies, George White's Scandals and Earl Carroll's Vanities. 1909).Ī former vaudeville performer, Le Maire began working on costumes for Broadway shows in 1921.

Sister act with Jane (1912 – April 20, 1957) and Kathryn (b. Later teamed with Oliver Hardy (January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) to form Laurel and Hardy.Ĭomedian and 'straight man' for Eddie Cantor. Music Hall comedian who toured America with the Karno Troupe and stayed behind, along with Charlie Chaplin to enter films. Toured vaudeville with a swim tank act, promoting her swimming films. Singer and comedian from the British Music Hall who made 22 tours of the US. Warren and Francis Lassiter performed acrobatics, dance and comedy in the Publix and Taka Chance vaudeville troupes.Ĭhorus girl Taka Chance Vaudeville Troupe. Oscar-winning actor, who started out in his teens an acrobat with Nick Cravat, Lang & Cravat.Ĭomedian who formed an act called 'Johnny's New Car' with Rose Francis in 1903 and toured the Orpheum Circuit until finding greater success in silent films.Īctress, widely known as the mistress of Edward VII.Īctor who later co-founded Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor. A skilled xylophone player who entered vaudeville as a serious musician, but he soon added comic effects to his act. Credited with bringing ragtime to vaudeville.īorn Basil Garwood Lambert. Later gained fame as an actor in films, most notably as the Cowardly Lion in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz. Part of the comic act Lahr & Mercedes, a comic act. A vaudeville performer is sometimes known as a 'vaudevillian'.

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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 short films.

Developing from many sources, including saloon shows, minstrel shows, freak shows, dime museums, British pantomimes, and other popular forms of entertainment, vaudeville became one of the most popular types of entertainment in America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Vaudeville was a style of variety entertainment predominant in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The source in the citation included with each entry confirms their appearance and cites information in the performance notes section. Inclusion on this list indicates that the subject appeared at least once on the North American vaudeville stage during its heyday between 18. This is a partial list of vaudeville performers.

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