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Showing posts with label vaudevillian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vaudevillian. Show all posts

Monday, October 29, 2012

Ada Smith Ducongé

Bricktop outside of her famous Montmartre club.
Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop, (August 14, 1894 — February 1, 1984) was an American dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris. (Photographed in Paris on June 22, 1934) 
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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Marion Gee

This is a scan of an old, 1920's era, photograph of a black Vaudevillian actress named Marion Gee. She performed in musicals written by the famed team, Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle. From "Reminiscing With Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake."
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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Judy Garland

Judy Garland, (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969), at age nine.
Source: paperspots

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Ernie Morrison

Ernest Fredric "Ernie" Morrison (December 20, 1912 – July 24, 1989) was an American child actor who performed under the stage name "Sunshine Sammy". Morrison was the only black member of the East Side Kids, and was also an original Our Gang kid, a sidekick to Harold Lloyd and Snub Pollard, a silent screen comedian, a vaudevillian, a dancer, and band leader.
Source: catsafterme