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Encyclopedia: Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a style of variety entertainment predominant in America in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century. Developing from many sources, including shows in saloons, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, British pantomimes, and other popular forms of entertainment, vaudeville became one of the most popular types of entertainment in America. Vaudeville took the form of a series of separate, unrelated acts each featuring a different types of performance. These performances could range from musicians (both classical and popular), dancers, comedians, animal acts, magicians, female and male impersonators, to acrobats, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, or even short films.

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How to say "Vaudeville" in other languages:

	(Japanese)	ヴォードヴィル
	(German)	Vaudeville
	(Spanish)	Vodevil
	(French)	Vaudeville (théâtre)
	(Italian)	Vaudeville

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Ed Gallagher

Ed Gallagher refers to several people: Professor Ed Gallagher CBE - A UK scientist Ed Gallagher (baseball) - a Major League Baseball player (1932 season) Ed Gallagher and Al Shean - the 1920's vaudeville double-act Gallaher & Shean...

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Eddie Foy

Edwin Fitzgerald Foy (March 9, 1856-February 16, 1928) was an American vaudeville actor and comedian. Foy had seven children and they sometimes performed with him. The most famous was actor Eddie Foy, Jr. (1905–1983...

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Frank Byron, Jr.

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Gene Greene

Eugene Greene (June 9 1877 - April 5 1930), better known as Gene Greene was an American entertainer, singer and composer, nicknamed The Ragtime King . He was a Vaudeville star and made some of the earliest sound recordings of scat singing...

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Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell ( Helen Louise Leonard ) (1861 - 1922) was a U.S. vaudeville actress and singer. Lillian Russell On her passing in 1922, Russell was interred in the Allegheny Cemetery in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania...

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Gallagher and Shean

Gallagher & Shean was a highly successful double-act on Vaudeville and Broadway in the 1910s and 1920s, consisting of Edward Gallagher (1873 - March 28, 1929) and Al Shean (real name Albert Schoenberg) (May 12, 1868 - August 12, 1949). Having led separate careers in the Vaudeville tradition, it...

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Bob Cole (composer)

Robert "Bob" Cole (July 11, 1861 - August 2, 1911) was an African-American lyricist, composer and vaudeville performer. He joined forces with Billy Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson to produce hit songs. He was one of the first blacks to become part of "white" musical...

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Jack Pepper

Jack Pepper (né Edward Jackson Culpepper) was an American vaudeville dancer-singer and later a Dallas nightclub manager. One of his early dancing partners, in the team of Ginger and Pepper, was Ginger Rogers, who became Pepper's first wife. By his second wife, Dawn, Jack Pepper was the father of...

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Lambchops

Lambchops is a 1929 comedy short which is a filming of a vaudeville performance by George Burns and Gracie Allen of the comedy routine "Lambchops" written by Al Boasberg. No director is credited. In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and...

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Daniel Dumile

Geedorah, 2003), "Vaudeville Villain" (Viktor Vaughn, 2003), the critically acclaimed "Madvillainy" (with producer Madlib as group Madvillain, 2004) and "Vaudeville Villain II" (Viktor Vaughn, 2004...

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