Sentences with phrase «vaudeville performers»

Director Federico Fellini's debut film, tells a story of a young woman who begs and eventually buys her way into a struggling group of vaudeville performers.

Maybe this act, this work, this thing (2016) observes vaudeville performers mimicking the mechanics of the projector, representing the moment when cinema replaced theatre as the popular site of entertainment.

Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895, to Joseph Hallie Keaton and Myra Cutler Keaton, a pair of vaudeville performers.

A veteran vaudeville performer from Kentucky, wavy - haired Sam Ash was fairly busy in Broadway musicals of the 1910s and 1920s, including the hugely successful Katrinka (1915), Some Party (1922; with Jed Prouty and De Wolf Hopper), and The Passing Show of 1922.

Crawford was born into a performing family — both of his maternal grandparents, William Broderick and Emma Kraus, were opera singers, and his mother, Helen Broderick, was a Broadway and screen actress, while his father, Lester Crawford, was a vaudeville performer.

In this appropriation of a flagrantly racist caricature from America's vaudevillian past, Thomas highlights the entertainment value of a vaudeville performer; however, Biggers» minstrel is not presented in the act of performing, rather he is captured in a moment of reflection.

Arceneaux's first work of theater, the piece explores the controversial inauguration day performance by Ben Vereen, in which the actor and dancer paid tribute to vaudeville performer Bert Williams.

Lyle Talbot began his career as an itinerant carnival and vaudeville performer before eventually making his way to Hollywood.

At this event, Vereen, who had recently won a Tony Award for his performance in Pippin, staged a musical number in homage to the trailblazing vaudeville performer Bert Williams, who, because of racist laws dictating who could appear on stage, always performed in blackface.

Not exact matches

U.S. filmgoers were by and large unaware that Arau had long been a popular vaudeville, theater, and TV performer, and had built his Mexican film reputation as an independent producer / director, beginning with 1969's The Barefoot Eagle.

Eddy Waller's career moved along the same channels as most western comedy - relief performers: medicine shows, vaudeville, legitimate theatre, movie bit parts (from 1938) and finally the unshaven, grizzled, «by gum» routine.

The son of vaudeville and burlesque performers, George O'Hanlon made his own stage bow as a dancer at age 16 — only to be fired after a few weeks over a salary dispute.

In the 1930s, when Avery was a struggling artist, together with his wife they would often go to various vaudeville and circus performances and Avery would use performers as free live models.

«Curator and performer Ian M. Colletti, best known for heading the Vaudeville Park space, stages an ambitious daylong fest, featuring art - pop luminaries...» — «Moving Forward» Time Out New York 5/22/2013

During this vaudeville of the absurd, performers will be given 10 minutes inside a wrestling ring.

Atherton has used the art gallery as «theatre» to question art and the artist «performer» relative to the wider cultural influences of mass entertainment, including the performer in vaudeville or stand - up comedy.