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Florenz Ziegfeld

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 …

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‘Big’ Jim Wynn

b. 21 June 1912, Un Paso, Tx, USA, d. 1976, LA, California, USA. After shifting to LA as a kid, Wynn started his musical tuition on clarinet before switching to tenor sax and playing appropriately using the music group of Charlie Echols. In 1936, Wynn got his very own music …

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Elmer Lee Thomas

b. 18 Dec 1946, Oakland, California, USA. Thomas noticed music from an early on age, travelling along with his mom who sang using the Gateway Performers, a folk group. (His mom’s name has been Elmerlee, which can take into account some references recommending that Thomas also sang with this group.) …

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Charles Starrett

b. 28 March 1903, Athol, Massachusetts, USA, d. 22 March 1986, Borrego Springs, California, USA. While students at Dartmouth, where he was a celebrity football participant, Starrett worked well as a supplementary on the film becoming shot on campus, The Quarterback (1926). This encounter fired his creativity and after graduation …

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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 …

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Albertina Rasch

b. 19 January 1896, Vienna, Austria, d. 2 Oct 1967, Woodland Hillsides, LA, California, USA. Qualified as a traditional ballet dancer at Vienna’s Royal Opera Ballet College, Rasch danced in Vienna from age 13 and made an appearance at the brand new York Hippodrome in 1911. She resolved in america …

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Teddy Phillips

b. 5 June 1918, Oak Recreation area, Illinois, USA, d. 10 March 2001, Canoga Recreation area, California, USA. Teddy Phillips’ years ahead of World Battle II had been spent together with music group leaders such as for example Ben Bernie, Ted Weems and Lawrence Welk. He also became an employee …

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Bridget O’Flynn

b. 1923, Berkeley, California, USA. O’Flynn trained herself to try out drums as a little child, ultimately acquiring lessons while participating in school. Fighting with each other against the automated resistance towards ladies in jazz, specifically being a drummer, she ultimately joined up with an all-female music group led by …

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Nudie

b. Nudie Cohen, 15 Dec 1902, Kiev, Russia, d. 9 Might 1984, North Hollywood, California, USA. The surname in addition has been provided as Cohn but he’s usually known as simply ‘Nudie’. His dad was a bootmaker in the Russian military so that as a young man he started to …

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Vincente Minnelli

b. 28 Feb 1903, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 25 July 1986, LA, California, USA. A recognized film movie director with a complicated design and flair, especially in the usage of colour as well as the innovative filming of the very most exquisite dance sequences. Minnelli is normally credited, in cooperation …

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