Sentences with word «vaudevillian»

On stage from the age of four, Robert Emmett Tansey was the son of vaudevillians John Tansey and Emma Tansey (née Purcell).

He was born into a performing family, with vaudevillians for parents.

This time Kelly and Sinatra are baseball players working as vaudevillians during the off - season.

Snow Chief, partly owned by a former vaudevillian, won the Florida Derby to become the favorite for the Roses

There, they quickly fall into a father - daughter relationship, with Alice keeping their home at a boarding house for vaudevillians, while he goes to work in a small local theatre.

Fatty Arbuckle, one of the first internationally successful silent film stars, realized the potential for success when he met vaudevillian Buster Keaton, and hired him on the spot to be his second director, gag man and supporting player.

It was a dry, low - key comedy featuring old vaudevillian George Burns, comedian Art Carney and method - acting legend Lee Strasberg, as a trio of retirees who elect to rob a bank with minimal planning, because, why not?

Throughout his career, he repeatedly returned to subjects like nudes, cars and nationalism; later works reveal his abiding interest in political and psychosexual themes, surrealist visual punning and vaudevillian Americana, making Copley a link between European Surrealist and American Pop circles.

Players will explore a «dreamlike, vaudevillian world of the 1920s».

Refusing to stick with august savants alone, he also sprinkles his text with artistic voices: the songwriter Leonard Cohen, the poets Randall Jarrell and Rainer Maria Rilke, even Vaudevillian Jewish actors from old radio programs.

Jackie Coogan was born into a family of vaudevillians where his father was a dancer and his mother had been a child star.

What sets the show apart is its tireless, formless, free - flowing pursuit of laughs — and a cast that can ride that wave while also giving some human dimension to what are essentially vaudevillian characters.

A native of New York City, Quinn was five when he became a professional vaudevillian.

It's a cross between an All - American vaudevillian version of «Shakespeare in Love» and Mel Brooks's «Robin Hood: Men in Tights.»

Mired in vaudevillian caricature (there are even numerous fantasy sequences in which Bronson, sporting a Meliés-esque mustache, stands on a stage recounting his exploits to a packed theater), Hardy's take on Bronson is, wonderfully, neither self - important nor self - conscious (note scenes of full frontal nudity in which he is alternately covered in butter and grease paint).

If it's neither, if it's instead some kind of vaudevillian farce about the last days of Jewish entertainment hegemony, then perhaps that's as good an explanation as any for why its prehistoric rimshots, timing, and attitudes strike me as puzzling.

Midler fans out her performer's wares with expert self - assurance — she delivers her jokes at a steady vaudevillian clip, like Mae West in a hurry — but she also seems like she couldn't live without us.

-- Milkshake (Directed by David Andalman, starring Tyler Ross, Shareeka Epps, Georgia Ford, Eshan Bay)- In mid-1990's America, we follow the tragic sex life of Jolie Jolson, a wannabe thug (and great - great - grandson of legendary vaudevillian Al Jolson) in suburban DC as he strives to become something he can never be — black.

Limelight — Charlie Chaplin plays an aging drunk vaudevillian who can't get work anymore who saves Claire Bloom, a neighboring ballet dancer, from killing herself.

Betty is obviously a seasoned vaudevillian, always ready to break into songs and snappy patter for the ad hoc audiences that gather around her.

In an era when such satire would be welcomed, Ramis was too busy interrupting biblical incidents like Cain & Abel and Abraham & Isaac in a vapid vaudevillian style.

Marking the first time in recent memory that a non-Adam Sandler actor has undermined not only the quality but also the watchability of an entire film with a surplus of vaudevillian tics and freakish affectations, Corky Romano can't be viewed as a comedy, though it can be taken as a cautionary tale to comedians to try less hard, and to audiences not to assume that a lively cameo in an otherwise dreadful film (i.e., Monkeybone) is an indicator of future success.

Chomet has delivered a deeply melancholy little film about the demise of vaudevillian entertaiment, in visually splendid style.

Given «Locust's» black, mocking heart for those locked behind the ropes of the era's gala movie premieres, Barry's music has a seditiousness as well, no more so than in his silent movie comedy way of playing Burgess Meredith's desperate, way - too old vaudevillian doing the soul - crushing salesman rounds, ukulele, and «soft shoe» music mocking his pathetic efforts.

After several ill - fated attempts, Francesca finally lands a freelance writing assignment with «Chicky,» an old woman who wants to tell the story of her 1920s vaudevillian forebears.

Then you might be interesting in winning an XBLA code for Compulsion Games» Contrast, a third - person Vaudevillian puzzler that tasks players with solving puzzles by melding into the shadows.

If you're not aware of Contrast, it will whisk you away to a surreal vaudevillian, film - noir inspired reality full of performance, intrigue, shadow - play and drama.

We've poured so much love into bringing this game to the stage, and are beyond excited that people will finally get their hands on the world's first vaudevillian - crowd - pleasing - arcade - brawler.

Foul Play is a sideways scrolling 2D brawler which takes place in a Victorian vaudevillian theater.

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.

Employing the visual trappings of the formally idealized 1890s in America — women dressed in satin skirts with large bows, large wheeled bicycles, Main St. USA, vaudevillian stages — Ryden recreates scenes from this marginalized slice of pop culture.

From vaudevillian dick pics to finding God in CERN's particle collider — we found 7 outstanding artworks to check out at Untitled Art Fair, Miami Beach.

Laurie Anderson is the honored guest, and vaudevillian rockers known as the Elephant Room will perform magic.

In typically vaudevillian manner, Monckton played to the cameras by pointing at the University of Queensland's John Cook — who was there to interview sceptics — calling him a «crook» in French and English.

The child vaudevillian who grew up to become one of Hollywood's most iconic stars, died at the age of 93.

Last Thursday, the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook released nearly 400 prop bets while offshore sportsbooks like Bovada and BetOnline are featuring more ridiculous props than a vaudevillian performance.

A lovable star with a vivacious personality, mesmerizing smile, and big blue eyes, Joan Blondell, the daughter of stage comic Eddie Blondell (one of the original Katzenjammer Kids), spent her childhood touring the world with her vaudevillian parents and appearing with them in shows.

Contrast is a 2D / 3D puzzle / platformer, set in a 1920's vaudevillian, film noir dreamscape, full of cabaret, illusion and performance.

Perhaps, this vagueness is inseparable from a self - invented matinee idol who began as a vaudevillian.

A Vaudevillian known primarily for his button - down work in stuff like Dodsworth and Yankee Doodle Dandy, Walter had the role written for him by his son (mysterious B. Traven, the author of the source novel, reportedly envisioned someone older), with the caveat that he had to perform it sans teeth.

Donald O'Connor plays a hoofer who shares his vaudevillian history and Debbie Reynolds is the fresh - faced ingénue who crosses paths with Kelly's movie star at a Hollywood premiere.

Treading much the same ground as the 2003 original, the sequel film combines James Bond spoofing with utterly predictable physical humour, yet thanks to the vaudevillian talents of leading man Rowan Atkinson, it does so in a way that translates as amusing rather than gratingly annoying.

Walter Huston and Rosemary De Camp play his vaudevillian parents and Joan Leslie is the love of his life (for whom he writes the song «Mary» — «plain as any name can be»).

In the past, I and others have commented that Leigh's dialogue in his contemporary movies has an exaggerated, vaudevillian, neo-Dickensian quality.

The second disc includes Flirting with Fate, in which Brown is cast as the desperate manager of a vaudevillian act.

Lynch's idiosyncratic use of Los Angeles» iconic topography, with its distinct streets and sloping hills imbuing his vaudevillian freak shows with different kinds of evil, is as compelling in Lost Highway as it is in Mulholland Drive.

James Cagney completely breaks type in this bold and interesting portrayal of a vaudevillian actor - turned composer.