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- ...ebag" and "big girl's blouse", the insults continued off-screen as the two performers disliked each other intensely.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fiddy|first=Dick|url=htt ...moved to [[w:Brinsworth House|Brinsworth House]], the retirement home for performers, in [[w:Twickenham|Twickenham]], [[w:London|London]]. In 1984, she moved to12 KB (1,922 words) - 16:00, 27 December 2022
- ...AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA179 ''The London Stage 1920–1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''], Rowman & Littlefield (2014), pp. 179 and 313 {{ISBN|0810 ...)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822020626/http://www.vaudeville-postcards.com/postcards4.html |date=22 August 2007 }}</ref>9 KB (1,412 words) - 13:55, 11 March 2023
- ...h other onscreen, the insults would continue off-screen as well as the two performers disliked each other intensely.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fiddy|first=Dick|url=htt [[Category:Music hall performers]]9 KB (1,395 words) - 14:27, 11 March 2023
- | occupation = Music hall and vaudeville entertainer, comedian, television and film actor ...introp''', 14 October 1896 – 20 October 1968) was a British music hall and vaudeville entertainer and comedian, and later a television and film actor. He was bes11 KB (1,667 words) - 22:56, 24 August 2024
- [[Category:Music hall performers]] [[Category:Vaudeville performers]]8 KB (1,280 words) - 16:39, 15 February 2023
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- ...rpe]] area of [[Middlesbrough]] on 20 July 1908, the son of [[music hall]] performers who toured the halls throughout England and Scotland.<ref name="alanMyers"> ...status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822020626/http://vaudeville-postcards.com/postcards4.html |archive-date=22 August 2007 }}</ref>23 KB (3,166 words) - 11:15, 20 July 2024
- ...multitude of characters and impersonations, at a time when most variety ([[vaudeville]]) acts were more limited in nature. Despite his flair for comedy and actin [[Category:Music hall performers]]10 KB (1,488 words) - 16:13, 10 January 2023
- ...rs Winifred and Teresa ('Triss') known as "the Henderson Twins", were also performers in the style of the [[Andrews Sisters|Andrews Sisters]].<ref>{{cite book|ur ...both [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], when his father was touring in vaudeville, and Britain, at [[St Joseph's College, Upper Norwood|St Joseph's College,8 KB (1,222 words) - 12:35, 19 February 2023
- ...ember 1941|quote=Westcott, an old-time comedian and veteran of the English vaudeville circuit known to show business as Fred Karno, died yesterday |access-date=5 ...r Trav S.D., author of ''No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous,'' has proclaimed Crump's biography as "definitive, full of original13 KB (1,972 words) - 10:38, 12 April 2023
- [[Category:Vaudeville performers]]11 KB (1,676 words) - 08:57, 13 January 2023
- | [[Vaudeville Theatre]] | [[Vaudeville Theatre]]46 KB (6,517 words) - 14:36, 21 December 2022
- ...k | last2=Banks|first2=Ron}}</ref> Kerr is one of the most important child performers in early Australian film. He saw service in the Australian army during the ...f the [[BBC Light Programme]]. Retaining his accent, an unusual choice for performers moving to Britain at this time, he was billed as "the boy from Wagga Wagga.18 KB (2,663 words) - 11:36, 4 August 2024
- ...-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822020626/http://vaudeville-postcards.com/postcards4.html |archivedate=22 August 2007 }}</ref> later at [[Category:Music hall performers]]19 KB (2,753 words) - 22:39, 15 March 2023
- Many performers who had worked before with the actor featured in an entertainment special c ...t at farce. He co-starred in ''Key for Two'' with [[oira Lister]] at the [[Vaudeville Theatre]] and then at the [[Old Vic|Old Vic]] Theatre in [[William Douglas-18 KB (2,642 words) - 15:32, 24 August 2024
- ...Royal, Brighton]], her home town, and starred in London's West End at the Vaudeville Theatre in Kander and Ebb's ''70 Girls 70'' to great acclaim. At this time, ...[[Cliff Richard|Sir Cliff Richard]] was the star performer, but among the performers and celebrity guests were old friends and colleagues, including [[June Whit18 KB (2,626 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2023
- ...gious programme on Britain's [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]], in which well-known performers sang hymns or read extracts from the Bible. Fields was the most requested a ...bn=978-0-415-93853-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFnfnKg6BcAC&q=vaudeville+old |volume=1 |pages=380–383 |access-date=2 September 2010 |via=[[Google38 KB (5,709 words) - 19:29, 24 August 2024
- ...ame="Telegraph2011"/> For a while he was a stand-up comedian. "I came from vaudeville and music halls", he once said.<ref name="Gaughan">{{cite news |last=Gaugha24 KB (3,398 words) - 16:39, 27 December 2022
- [[Category:Music hall performers]] [[Category:Vaudeville performers]]33 KB (5,042 words) - 22:47, 18 March 2023
- ...ie Tucker]], whom he described as "one of the most charming and delightful performers with whom I have ever worked". Tucker was impressed with him and suggested24 KB (3,650 words) - 08:07, 11 September 2024