Robert Baral papers 1876-1980

Cantor, Eddie, 1892-1964

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Eddie Cantor was born Edward Israel Iskowitz on January 31, 1892 in New York City. He was orphaned at age of two and raised by his grandmother. Cantor was a vaudeville performer and singing waiter and appeared in Gus Edwards' Kid Kabaret, in Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolics in 1916 and star in successive Ziegfeld Follies, 1917-1919. He starred in two silent films, Kid Boots (1926) and Special Delivery (1927); had own radio show through the 1930s, and was the highest paid radio star by 1936. After a h...

Brice, Fanny, 1891-1951

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Fanny Brice was born in Manhattan on October 29, 1891. She began performing in burlesque in 1908; by 1910 she headlined Ziegfeld Follies. In the 1921 Follies, she was featured singing "My Man", which became both a big hit and her signature song. From the 1930s until her death in 1951, Fanny made a radio presence as a bratty toddler named Snooks. She was famously portrayed by Barbra Streisand in the stage musical Funny Girl. ...

Merman, Ethel, 1908-1984

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Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer known for her distinctive, powerful voice, and for leading roles in musical theatre. Over her distinguished career in theater she became known for her performances in shows such as Anything Goes, Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy, and Hello, Dolly! The Irving Berlin song "There's No Business Like Show Business", written for the musical Annie Get Your Gun, became Merman's signature song....

Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983

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Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his brother George Gershwin to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 20th century. Born in Brooklyn, the oldest of four children. It was not until 1924 that Ira and George teamed up to write the music for what became their first Broadway hit Lady, Be Good. Some of their more famous works include "The Man I Love", "Fascinating Rhythm", "Someone to Watch Over Me", "I Got Rhythm" and "They Can't Take That A...

Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945

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Composer and songwriter Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is best remembered for his Broadway and film work including the lovely melodies from Showboat, "Old Man River," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," and "Bill," as well as standards such as "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "The Way You Look Tonight". The collection consists primarily of show music, including some holograph sketches. There are many full and vocal scores in the hand of Kern's orchestrators and arrangers, especially Frank Saddler and Robert Russ...

Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989

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Irving Berlin (1888-1989), a writer and composer of popular songs, wrote "I Like Ike", which was used by Eisenhower's staff during the 1952 presidential campaign. Eisenhower presented Berlin with a special gold medal from the U.S. Congress in 1955 in recognition of his patriotic and popular songs. ...

Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

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George Gershwin was a composer and pianist; his best-known works are Rhapsody in Blue (1924), An American in Paris (1928), "I Got Rhythm" (1930), and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), which included the hit "Summertime". Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores. He died in 1937 of a malignant brain tumor....

Rogers, Will, 1879-1935

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The youngest of eight children, William Penn Adair Rogers was born on November 4, 1879 at Rogers Ranch in Oologah, Indian Territory (what is now Oklahoma). His parents, Clement Vann Rogers and Mary Schrimsher, were partly of Cherokee descent. While growing up on the family ranch, Will worked with cattle and learned to ride and lasso from a young age. He grew so talented with a rope, in fact, that he was placed in the Guiness Book of World Records for throwing three lassos at once. One went ar...

Vélez, Lupe

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Lupe Vélez (born María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez; July 18, 1906 [or 1908] – December 14, 1944) was a Mexican actress, dancer and singer during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood films. Vélez began her career as a performer in Mexican vaudeville in the early 1920s. After moving to the United States, she made her first film appearance in a short in 1927. By the end of the decade, she was acting in full-length silent films and had progressed to leading roles in The Gaucho (1927), Lady of the Pavement...

White, George, 1890-1968

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Lawrence, Gertrude

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Gertrude Lawrence, actress, was born Gertrud Alexandra Dagnar Lawrence Klasen in London, England on July 4, 1898. She was a musical star of stage and screen. She worked frequently with producer John Golden, and with actor and writer Noel Coward. Miss Lawrence's last stage appearance was with Yul Brynner in the musical, The King and I, in 1951. Gertrude Lawrence died on September 6, 1952. From the guide to the Gertrude Lawrence collection, 1910-1952, (The New York Public Library. Bill...

Ziegfeld, Flo, 1869-1932

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American theatrical producer. From the description of Florenz Ziegfeld Collection, 1893-1979 (bulk 1910-1930). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 79415204 Florenz Ziegfeld was born in Chicago in 1867. He was sent to Europe to recruit talent for his father's show at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, but returned instead with a circus strongman named Eugene Shadow who became the surprise hit of the season. Over t...

George White

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Charles Dillingham

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60m57b9 (person)

Peggy Fears

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Hitchcock, Raymond, 1865-1929

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Irene Castle

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Susan Fleming

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r33xbg (person)

Flo Ziegfeld

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gr9pw3 (person)

Ed Wynn

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Alberto Vargas

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Gertrude Lawrence

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ph4rfn (person)

Burnaby, Davy, 1881-1941

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Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-

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Friml, Rudolph, 1879-1972.

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Fairbanks, Madeline

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz678p (person)

Julian Mitchell

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fk5drf (person)

Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c66ffs (person)

Marilyn Miller

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c37q7r (person)

Gaby Deslys

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f31w2x (person)

Bessie Wynn

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cp9wsm (person)

Letter Box Girls

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Bert Williams

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Rudy Valée

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68f2qww (person)

Vera Maxwell

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Ziegfeld family

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Adeline Genée

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jb95jw (person)

Valerie, Babs, 1881-1947

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Astaire, Adele

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Dinarzade

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Grace Moore

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Billie Burke

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Joseph Urban

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Henderson, Ray

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Composer. From the description of Autograph card signed : [New York], to Irene Gallagher, 1921 May 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270923770 Songwriter. From the description of Reminiscences of Ray Henderson : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513560 ...

Vincent Youmans

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Errol, Leon, 1881-1951

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Frances Williams

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Tallulah Bankhead

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Erté

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James Barton

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Earl Carroll

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Helen Lee Worthing

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Norma Phillips

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Tierney, Harry, 1890-1965

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Nita Naldi

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Dolin, Anton, Sir, 1904-

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Burke, Billie, 1885-1970

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American actress of stage and screen. From the description of Billie Burke collection, 1910-1957. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70965264 Florenz "Flo" Ziegfeld was a theatrical impressario who perfected a form of the musical comedy revue, the Follies, regarded as the pinnacle of the field, while he himself became a legendary figure, making and losing several fortunes, and marrying two of his biggest stars, Anna Held and Billie Burke. Born ...

Newberry, Barbara

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George Hansburg

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McCullough, Paul, d. 1936

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Biddle, Virginia

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Cliff, Laddie

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Britton, Milt, 1894-1948

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Dean, Barbara

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Helen Morgan

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Ruth Etting

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Thompson, Frederic

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Fairbanks, Marian

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Harriet Hoctor

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Chester, Betty, 1895-1943

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Anna Held

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Irene Delroy

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Leon Erroll

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Mistinguett

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West, Mae, 1893-1980

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Mae West (b. Mary Jane West, Aug.t 17, 1893, Brooklyn, NY–d. Nov. 22, 1980, Los Angeles, CA) was an actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol, known for her lighthearted bawdy double entendres and breezy sexual independence. She began her career in vaudeville and on the stage in New York City before moving to Hollywood to become a comedian, actress, and writer in the motion picture industry....

Joyce, Peggy Hopkins, 1893-1957

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Buchanan, Jack, 1890-1957

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Wheeler, Betty

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Marion Davies

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Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975

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P. G. Wodehouse was an American and English novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, and short-story writer. From the description of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse collection of papers, 1905-1975. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122465613 From the guide to the Pelham Grenville Wodehouse collection of papers, 1905-1975, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) British author. From ...

Charles Le Maire

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Lillie, Beatrice, 1894-1989

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Beatrice Lillie, stage star, was born in Toronto, Canada on May 29, 1894. Her first appearances on stage were in 1914 in Canada and in England in musical revues. She made her Broadway debut in Andre Charlot's Revue of 1924 . Miss Lillie's most notable Broadway performances were in The Seven Lively Arts, Inside U. S. A., Ziegfeld Follies of 1957 and High Spirits . She toured the world in An Evening with Beatrice Lillie from 1952 to 1956. Miss Lillie appeared in films and on television. She marrie...

Florence Walton

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Buddy Rogers

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Bolton, Guy, 1884-1979

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British librettist. From the description of Guy Bolton letter to William Work, 1953 Jan. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 636586834 English playwright. From the description of Typewritten letters signed (18), autograph letter signed (1), autograph correspondence cards signed (2) and a Christmas card signed with message : Remsenbury, New York, etc., to "June" (Mrs. Edward Hillman, Jr.), 1966-1978 and undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270539379 ...

Herman, Rosse

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Groves, Evelyn

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Libby Holman

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Elsie Janis

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Ann Pennington

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Goddard, Paulette, 1911-1990

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Lew Fields

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Ziegfeld, Patricia, 1916-2008

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Johnston, Alfred Cheney, 1885-1971

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Buck, Gene

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President of ASCAP and composer. From the description of Typewritten letter signed : New York City, to Bascom N. Timmons, 1929 June 4th. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270910521 ...

Orry-Kelly, 1897-1964

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Charles LeMaire

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Baral, Robert

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Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1905, Robert Baral was a freelance writer-journalist, and occasionally, a publicist centering his activities mainly in New York. In addition to contributing to Variety, he wrote two books, one of which, Revue, prompted him to begin a collection of miscellaneous materials relating to Florenz Ziegfeld and the revue era in American theater. He lived and worked from his apartment in the New York Athletic Club for many years. He died in 1980. From the guide...

Hassard Short

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Evelyn Herbert

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Annette Kelllermann

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Marshall Neilan

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Anderson, John Murray

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Justine Johnstone

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Fleming, Susan, 1909-

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Maurice Mouvet

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Martyn, Kathlene

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Adele Astaire

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gc52fh (person)

Gloria Swanson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jz1d9t (person)

Monkman, Phyllis

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n42x01 (person)

Carole Lombard

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d34rkt (person)

Tiller Girls

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Mary Nolan

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Albertina Rasch Dancers

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Clark, Bobby, 1888-1960

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Holloway, Stanley

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Stanley Holloway (1890-1982) made over 50 films, but he loved performing in the theatre and the comic monologues, for which he was so well known, were first introduced into a Co-Optimists' stage show in 1929. He began his career working in concert parties where he was spotted by Leslie Henson who organised Holloway's first west-end appearance in a Co-Optimists' show. His most notable post-war parts were as the first gravedigger in Olivier's Hamlet film; on stage as Bottom in the Old Vic producti...

Brown, Lew

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Laurell, Kay, 1890-1927

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j51jfb (person)

Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fc5rz6 (person)

Mary Louise Brooks (b. Nov. 14, 1906, Cherryvale, KS–d. Aug. 8, 1985, Rochester, NY) was a dancer, actor, flapper, and style icon: she popularized the bobbed haircut. She began dancing in 1922 when she joined the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts modern dance company in Los Angeles but was fired in 1924. Brooks relocated to New York City and began dancing on Broadway and made screen debut in 1925. The same year she was offered a contract with Paramount and in 1929-1930, starred in sev...

Al Jolson

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Annabelle Whitford

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64877zx (person)

Walter Winchell

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h54hkj (person)

Bert Lahr

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wz0908 (person)

Imogene Wilson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6681bpx (person)

Elizabeth Brice

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67b72cv (person)

Gilda Gray

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d34wq8 (person)

Eva Tanguay

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hj9hw8 (person)

Ziegfeld, Patricia, 1916-2008

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Lady Duff Gordon

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz6dks (person)

Irene Marcellus

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Olive Thomas

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s88bct (person)

Anastasia Reilly

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68x67zb (person)

Bobbe Arnst

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Bordoni, Irene

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Elizabeth Hines

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c66c5c (person)

Ruby Keeler

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67x975v (person)

Robert Baral

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qs7wtf (person)

Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975

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Josephine Baker(1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, and civil rights activist. She performed in Paris, New York, Africa, and the Middle East, and was a crusader for racial equality. She was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Eddie Carson, a musician, and Carrie Macdonald. Her parents parted when Josephine was still an infant, and her mother married Arthur Martin, which has led to some confusion about her maiden name. Very llittle is known about her childhood, exce...

Ethel Hallor

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Louise Brown

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v253bw (person)

Naldi, Nita, 1895-1961

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Actress. From the description of Reminiscences of Nita Naldi (Nita Dooley) : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419741 ...

Dennis King

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Dundy, Elmer

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Albert Cheney Johnston

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Childs, Gilbert, d. 1931

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Fairbanks Twins

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Julian Eltinge

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60x19kv (person)

Faith Bacon

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jf7qgw (person)

Dolly Sisters

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Murray, J. Harold

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Jayne Mansfield

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Schwartz, Arthur, 1900-1984

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Arthur Schwartz, composer. Dorothy Fields, lyricist. Betty Smith and George Abbott, librettists. Betty Smith, novelist. David Ives, concert adaptation. From the description of A tree grows in Brooklyn : typescript, 2005. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 79468106 Songwriter, producer. From the description of Reminiscences of Arthur Schwartz : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122608352 Rob...

Raymond Hitchcock

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Britton, Frank

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Gus Van

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Raquel Meller

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65c2tzd (person)

Kay, Kendall

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Patricia Ziegfeld

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sc72r3 (person)

Wheeler, Bert, 1895-1968

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Comedian. From the description of Reminiscences of Bert Wheeler : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122411629 ...

Miller, Marilyn, 1898-1936

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Bill Blass

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Eaton, Mary, 1901-1948

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Claire Luce

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Dolores

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George Cukor

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Hedley, H. B., d. 1931

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Ching Ling Foo

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W. C. Fields

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Dillingham, C. B. (Charles Bancroft), 1868-1934

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Charles Bancroft Dillingham (1868-1934) was one of the leading theatrical producers in New York City during the first three decades of the 20th century. With his own company, the Dillingham Theatre Corp., and in partnership with A.L. Erlanger and Florenz Ziegfeld, he produced more than 200 comedies, musical comedies, operettas and vaudeville shows for the Broadway stage. He built and owned The Globe Theatre (at Broadway and 46th St.) and for many years he managed The Hippodrome, reputed to be th...

Dietz, Howard

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Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, writers and composers. From the description of Revenge with music: typescript, 1934. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122532975 Howard Dietz (1896-1983) was an important musical theater lyricist and motion picture publicist, who is well-known for his professional partnership with composer Arthur Schwartz, as well as for his long association with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio. Born in New York City...

Chic Sale

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Princess White Deer

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Lillian Lorraine

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Evelyn Nesbit

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Floradora Sextette

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Willie Howard

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Jessie Reed

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Gideon, Melville

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Macfarlane, Elsa, 1899-

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Barbara Newberry

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Allyn King

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Myrna Darby

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Hobart, George V. (George Vere), 1867-1926

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Hal Sherman

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Rosie Quinn

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Nervo and Knox

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Beryl Halley

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Evelyn Law

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Lina Basquette

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Theda Bara

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Mlle. Dazie

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Helen Moore

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Gladys Glad

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De Sylva, B. G. (Buddy Gard), 1896-1950

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Murray, Mae, 1889-1965.

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Eleanor Powell

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Mary Eaton

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Astaire, Fred, 1899-1987

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Fred Astaire (b. Frederick Austerlitz May 10, 1899, Omaha, NE–d. June 22, 1987, Los Angeles, CA) was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential dancers in the history of film and television musicals. His stage and subsequent film and television careers spanned a total of 76 years, during which he starred in more than 10 Broadway and London musicals, made 31 musical films, 4 television specials, and issued num...

Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954

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American painter and illustrator. From the description of Photographs, [ca. 1930-1940] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155486635 Painter, illustrator, etcher; New York, N.Y. From the description of Reginald Marsh printed material, 1915-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84389391 Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) was a painter, illustrator, and etcher from New York, N.Y. Marsh was a lifelong free-lance illustrator for the New Yorker, Es...

Albertina Vitak

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Erlanger, Abraham L., 1859-1930

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Ackerman, Jean

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Beatrice Lillie

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Norma Terris

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Louise Meyers

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Pola Negri

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Kay Laurell

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Haggin, Ben Ali, 1882-1951.

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Dorothy Dickson

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Jack Donahue

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Marion Benda

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