b. 21 March 1867, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 22 July 1932, NY, USA. The main and influential maker in the annals from the Broadway musical. It is stated that Ziegfeld was involved with his 1st real-life, but unintentional, ‘magnificent’ at age four, when he and his family members were pressured …

b. William Anthony McGuire, 9 July 1881, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 16 Sept 1940, Beverly Hillsides, LA, California, USA. McGuire began his professional profession like a journalist but started composing sketches for musicals and revues, including Frivolities Of 1920. His potential was observed by Florenz Ziegfeld who asked him to …

b. 17 March 1907, St. Petersburg, Russia, d. 9 Dec 1997, NEW YORK, NY, USA. After teaching for the ballet, Geva made an appearance as a traditional dancer and began showing up in musical comedies, frequently dancing interpolated traditional sequences. She got wedded choreographer George Balanchine, although their relationship finished …

b. 18 March 1893, USA, d. 18 March 1971, Paramus, NJ, USA. Olsen began his initial dance music group in Portland, Oregon, USA, in 1917. A six-piece group, this early combo included Wilbur Johnson, who in those days travelled beneath the billing ‘the globe’s just mellophone soloist’, violinist Herman Kanin, …

b. 29 January 1874, Portland, Maine, USA, d. 14 Oct 1956, NY, USA. An astonishingly prolific article writer, among Davis’ early has staged on Broadway, most of them melodramas, are Reaping The Whirlwind (1900), Shed In The Desert (1901) as well as the Confessions OF THE Wife (1905). In 1906/7 …

b. Ruth Elizabeth Grable, 18 Dec 1916, St. Louis Missouri, USA, d. 2 July 1973, Santa Monica, California, USA. An celebrity, vocalist and dancer in film musicals from the 30s, 40s and early 50s. A lovely blonde using a peaches-and-cream appearance, during World Battle II the well-known picture of her …

Prolific American pop lyricist Gus Kahn is usually a member from the Songwriters’ Hall of Popularity due to his work with Broadway and Hollywood musicals through the entire 1920s and 1930s. Given birth to in Coblenz, Germany, on November 6, 1886, Kahn found the U.S. along with his parents in …

b. Ethel Hilda Keeler, 25 August 1909, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, d. 28 Feb 1993, Rancho Mirage, California, USA. A captivating and petite celebrity and vocalist renowned for the Busby Berkeley ‘Depression-era’ musicals she made out of Dick Powell within the 30s, especially for 42nd Road where Warner Baxter barked …

Composer, conductor, and orchestrator Ray Heindorf worked prolifically in Hollywood right away from the audio era of the films in the later ’20s to the finish from the studio room program in the later ’50s. Because the head from the music section at Warner Bros. Images for greater than a …

No additional entertainer proved effective in as much areas as Eddie Cantor through the 1920s and ’30s. Nicknamed “Banjo Eye” and “the Apostle of Pep” for his limitless reserves of energy and showmanship (he’d literally jump round the stage while carrying out his favorite figures), he started his profession touring …