Not exact matches
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.
On
stage from the age of four, Robert Emmett Tansey was the son of
vaudevillians John Tansey and Emma Tansey (née Purcell).
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).
The tongue - wagging panels meet the
vaudevillian in Smith's «
Stage Paintings,» 2011, where rough - hewn platforms showcase a draped piece of canvas on which the artist's name is rendered, akin to his earlier works.