More Info on Eddie CantorSimilar Comedy MusicSearch Artistopia
Headlines
Al Gordon, Emmy-winning writer for Jack Benny, dies at 89 Kansas City Star In a career that began after World War II and included writing for Eddie Cantor's radio show, Gordon soon teamed with comedy writer Hal Goldman. A few months after they met, they learned Jack Benny needed new material for Rochester, the valet character ...
New rule begins for Cohen Columbus Dispatch “If you look at films that include some of the old vaudeville routines — like the Eddie Cantor routine in Glorifying the American Girl, which is also the essence of Jewish comedy — you can see a direct link with Sacha,” Scorsese said.
George Christy Talks About Stephen Sondheim, Follies, Sammy Davis Jr., Warren ... The Beverly Hills Courier Famous for “changing the face of the American stage, musical productions and America's music,” Florenz Ziegfeld, Chicago-born, launched stars such as Fanny Brice, Anna Held, Eddie Cantor, and hired composers Irving Berlin and Victor Herbert for his ...
Post-Holocaust Antisemitism in American politics, Part 1: A Congressional ... Jerusalem Post (blog) Then there was Eddie Cantor. His real name was Edward (sic) Iskowitz. Edward G Robinson, his name is Emmanuel Goldenberg.” The final cut was when he added, almost as an afterthought, the name of the congresswoman's husband: “There's another one here ...
"The Funniest Man I Ever Saw" San Diego Reader (blog) He still appeared on stage, with the likes of Eddie Cantor, Lester Walton, Will Rogers, and WC Fields. Fields, who became a friend, said, "Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew."
The life and times of Jack Yellen will be performed at Concord Town Hall Metrowny.com Former Springville resident Jack Yellen wrote the lyrics for “Happy Days Are Here Again,” as well as more than 200 other songs, lyrics for Broadway musicals and Hollywood movies that featured Judy Garland, Eddie Cantor and Shirley Temple, among others.
United Airlines in 1962: Flashbulbs for Celebrity Arrivals Jaunted Mike ran Metro News Photos, based at Midway Airport, and spent his time running to gates to stick a flashbulb in the faces of—as the article notes—Mary Pickford, Eddie Cantor, Pope Pius XII and a range of US presidents. We love that United notes his ...
Weinman's Winged Liberty NumisMaster.com Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Cantor came up with the name, a takeoff on a popular newsreel, “March of Time.” The Mercury dime's popularity slipped after Benito Mussolini adopted the fasces as a symbol of fascism. In 1943, critics called the symbol on ...
Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/29/12 & Theatre Quote of the Week Broadway World Christopher Fitzgerald, a superior musical comedy clown who, in another era, might have taken a few jobs away from Eddie Cantor, was an impish delight as Ko-Ko, the humble tailor of a long-ago Japanese village who, by the plot's twisted politics, ...
