Did Mickey Rooney or Wilfred Lucas work in vaudeville?
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Wilfred Lucas Wilfred Lucas (January 30, 1871 – December 13, 1940) was a Canadian-born American stage actor who found success in film as an actor, director, and screenwriter.
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Mickey Rooney Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, producer and radio personality. In a career spanning nine decades and continuing until shortly before his death, he appeared in more than 300 films and was one of the last surviving stars of the silent film era.
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Elida Morris Elida Mary Morris (November 12, 1886 – December 25, 1977), later Elida Morris Cooper, was an American vaudeville singer, comedian and actress.
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His Musical Career His Musical Career (also known as Musical Tramp) is a 1914 American comedy silent film made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin.
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Andy Hardy Andrew "Andy" Hardy is a fictional character played by Mickey Rooney in a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film series from 1937 to 1946, with a film released in 1958 in an unsuccessful attempt to revive the series. Hardy and others were based on characters in the play "Skidding" by Aurania Rouverol. Early films in the series focused on the entire Hardy family, but later films in the series focused on the character of Andy Hardy. All of the films were sentimental comedies celebrating ordinary American life.
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The Food Gamblers The Food Gamblers is a lost 1917 American silent drama film directed by Al Parker and starring Wilfred Lucas, Russell Simpson, and Elda Millar. The production was supervised by Allan Dwan. The plot involves the manipulation of the prices of food and other goods, similar to the inflation experienced at the time of the American entry into World War I.
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Arthur C. Sidman Arthur C. Sidman (August 3, 1863 – 16 August 1901) was the son of a blacksmith who became a popular American vaudeville performer and playwright.
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Morton Harvey Morton Harvey (1886 – August 15, 1961) was an American vaudeville performer and singer who had a moderately successful recording career during the 1910s.
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Russell Mack Russell Mack (November 11, 1892 – June 1, 1972) was an American vaudeville performer in the 1910s and a stage actor, film director, and producer in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Mack Swain Mack Swain (February 16, 1876 – August 25, 1935) was an American actor and vaudevillian, prolific throughout the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s.
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Wally Boag Wallace Vincent "Wally" Boag (September 13, 1920 – June 3, 2011) was an American performer known for his starring role in Disney's long-running stage show the "Golden Horseshoe Revue".
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The Great White Way (1924 film) The Great White Way is a 1924 silent film comedy centered on the sport of boxing. It was directed by E. Mason Hopper. It was produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Goldwyn Pictures. It was made with the cooperation of the New York City Fire Department. The film stars Oscar Shaw and Anita Stewart and is a lost film. It was remade twelve years later as "Cain and Mabel" with Marion Davies and Clark Gable.
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Vaudeville Vaudeville ( ; ] ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment. It was especially popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. A typical vaudeville performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, strongmen, female and male impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. A vaudeville performer is often referred to as a "vaudevillian".
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Caught in a Cabaret Caught in a Cabaret is a 1914 short comedy film written and directed by Mabel Normand and starring Normand and Charles Chaplin.
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Roy Williams (artist) Roy Williams (July 30, 1907 – November 7, 1976) was an artist and entertainer for The Walt Disney Studios, perhaps best known as "Big Roy," the adult mouseketeer for four seasons on the "Mickey Mouse Club" television series.
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Emory Parnell Emory Parnell (December 29, 1892 – June 22, 1979) was an American vaudeville and actor who appeared in over 250 films in his 36-year career. He was nicknamed "The Big Swede" and was sometimes credited as "Emery" or "Parnel".
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Wilfred Lytell Wilfred Lytell (16 October 1891 – 10 September 1954) was an American film actor.
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The Comedian (Playhouse 90) The Comedian is a 1957 live television drama written by Rod Serling from a novella by Ernest Lehman, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Mickey Rooney, Edmond O'Brien, Mel Tormé and Kim Hunter.
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George Voorhis George Bates Voorhis, Jr. (August 31, 1923 – July 7, 1989) was an American performer, clown and magician who performed as the character "Ronald McDonald" from 1966-1988.
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Joe Valli Joseph George McParlane (also spelled McFarlane and McPharlane; 13 August 1885 – 29 May 1967), known as Joe Valli, was a Scottish-Australian actor who worked in vaudeville and films. He had a long-running vaudeville partnership with Pat Hanna as "Chic and Joe".
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Mickey's Surprise Mickey's Surprise is a 1929 short film in Larry Darmour's "Mickey McGuire" series starring a young Mickey Rooney. Directed by Albert Herman, the two-reel short was released to theaters on September 15, 1929 by RKO.
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Comédie en vaudevilles The comédie en vaudevilles (] ) was a theatrical entertainment which began in Paris towards the end of the 17th century, in which comedy was enlivened through lyrics using the melody of popular vaudeville songs.