Queenie Smith

b. 8 Sept 1898, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 5 August 1978, Burbank, California, USA. As a kid Smith researched ballet and in her teenagers became primary dancer using the Metropolitan Opera Business. She was also in takes on and musical comedies, many on Broadway. Among the musicals was Tip-Toes (1925), where she made an appearance as Tip-Toes Kaye, presenting the tracks ‘That Certain Sense’ and ‘Searching TO GET A Boy’, by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. She was also in Strike The Deck (1927), tracks by Vincent Youmans, Clifford Gray and Leo Robin. In 1929 she was in the pub Vocalist, a play that’s not linked to the 1924 English musical comedy using the same name. Smith may possess made films as soon as 1915, but her film profession proper started in the middle-30s. In California, she trained on the Hollywood Professional College, reputedly planned relationship to Cary Offer, and made an appearance in minor assignments or little bit parts in movies such as for example Mississippi (1935), which starred Bing Crosby and W.C. Areas and had music by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. She had taken the function of Ellie Might Chipley in Present Boat (1936), music by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, and offering Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan. She was Lil Dolan in ON YOUR OWN Toes (1939), a edition from the stage musical with Rodgers and Hart’s music relegated to vocals, but which has Vera Zorina executing George Balanchine’s choreography for ‘Slaughter On Tenth Avenue’. In the 40s Smith acquired small assignments in The Killers and Nocturne (both 1946), as well as the Snake Pit (1948). Smith’s 50s movies included Caged (1950), My Sister Eileen (1955) and Special Smell Of Achievement (1957). In the past due 60s and through the 70s she is at The Star of Lylah Clare (1968), YOUR DAY FROM THE Locust (1975) and Bad Play (1978). On tv from the first 70s, Smith made an appearance in a variety of series and circumstance comedies, like the Monkees (1967), The Crazy Aspect (1971), Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (1971-72), The Unusual Couple, Right here’s Lucy, as well as the Waltons (all 1973), McMillan And Wife (1974), Small House OVER THE Prairie (1974), Chico And THE PERSON and Dawn: Family portrait OF THE Teenage Runaway (all 1976) as well as the Love Sail boat (1977).