Curated category
American vaudeville performers
- Ella FitzgeraldElla Jane Fitzgerald was born on the 25th of April 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. Her mother Temperance Fitzgerald and father William Ashland Fitzgerald…
- Marx BrothersMinnie Marx, born Minnie Schoenberg in Dornum, East Frisia, arrived in New York City around 1880 with her family of funfair entertainers.
- Judy GarlandFrances Ethel Gumm stood on the stage of her father's movie theater in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, at the age of two. She sang a chorus of Jingle Bells…
- George GershwinJacob Gershwine entered the world on the 26th of September 1898, inside a second-floor apartment at 242 Snediker Avenue in Brooklyn.
- Ginger RogersVirginia Katherine McMath stood in Fort Worth, Texas, during the summer of 1925. She was only fourteen years old when she entered a Charleston dance contest.
- Bing CrosbyHarry Lillis Crosby Jr. entered the world on the 3rd of May 1903, in Tacoma, Washington. He grew up at a house his father built at 1112 North J Street before…
- Buster KeatonJoseph Frank Keaton arrived in Piqua, Kansas on the 4th of October 1895. His father Joe ran a traveling medicine show called the Mohawk Indian Medicine…
- Adolphe MenjouAdolphe Jean Menjou was born on the 18th of February 1890 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father Albert Menjou came from France while his mother Nora Joyce…