Sentences with phrase «vaudeville stages»

The idea of the comedy duo was born in the British music halls and American vaudeville stages at the turn of the 20th Century.

Now one Alex Rosenberg has gingerly stepped onto this vaudeville stage with The Atheist's Guide to Reality, where scientific reductionism becomes» there is no other term for it» a full - bore reductio ad absurdum.

The Man of 1000 Faces — Boilerplate biopic that only comes alive when James Cagney, a great actor playing another great actor, recreates Lon Chaney's routines both for film and the vaudeville stage.

Here's the secret heart of the Super Mario Bros. games: Fun isn't just the happy result of playing the game on a weird vaudeville stage.

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Turkey Mike Donlin, who was the Babe Ruth of his day, literally staged two holdouts (1906 - 07,» 09 - 10), forsaking the New York Giants for vaudeville.

You are rolling along the vaudeville era and suddenly you find yourself on stage with a hypnotist painting a mustache on a young maiden.

He first set foot on stage at age 11, playing in vaudeville and music halls before working his way up to Broadway.

Rotund, squeaky - voiced American actor Harry Holman forsook vaudeville and the legitimate stage for films in 1929.

The son of an actress, Garry Owen first appeared on - stage with his mother in vaudeville.

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.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Richard Attenborough Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Moira Kelly Plot: The life and times of Charlie Chaplin: from his first stage performance before the age of ten to Vaudeville, to Mack Sennett's movies, to making his own movies, to winning an Oscar.

The life and times of Charlie Chaplin: from his first stage performance before the age of ten to Vaudeville, to Mack Sennett's movies, to making his own movies, to winning an Oscar.

Saturday in Glenwood Springs, comedian Barry Rothbart takes the stage at the Glenwood Vaudeville Revue at 7.

«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

In a clipping from a 1914 edition of The New York Times, it is reported that dancer Paul Swan collapsed in the middle of the stage during his vaudeville debut.

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.