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b. 1 January 1892, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California, USA, d. 17 Apr 1955, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Lorraine produced her 1st Broadway appearance in Miss Innocence (1908). Getting the eye, actually and figuratively, of Florenz Ziegfeld, she was in a number of editions from the Ziegfeld Follies, included in …

b. 17 Sept 1899, Greenport, NY, USA, d. 6 March 1971, Sherman Oaks, California, USA. A favorite Broadway showgirl of the first 20s, Lightner made an appearance in the 1922-24 editions of George White colored’s Scandals, as do her sister Thea Lightner. She was presented prominently in Homosexual Paree in …

b. Robert Goldberg, 5 Apr 1921, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 11 Dec 1991, LA, California, USA. Although Lewis would afterwards study on the School of Michigan, he started his showbusiness profession as a kid professional in radio, the moderate where he would continue steadily to glimmer. From 1950 he …

b. 22 July 1915, Lawton, Oklahoma, USA, d. 29 November 1997, Santa Monica, California, USA. Leonard’s dad was an acting professional and her mom a multi-instrumentalist and dancer and she herself 1st proceeded to go onto the stage at age three. She discovered to try out the piano as well …

b. 14 July 1915, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, d. 29 Feb 2004, Malibu, California, USA. With Lawence’s mom a poet and his dad a printing device, a literary profession was unsurprising. After learning locally, privately with Ohio State School, he graduated in 1937. He proved helpful briefly in Ohio on papers, …

b. c.1938, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 90s, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California, USA. Lashley was raised within a musical family members (within their youngsters her parents danced on the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem) and was continuously hearing performers on record. While still a kid, she relocated to Washington, DC, …

b. 2 January 1901, Pelahatchie, Mississippi, USA, d. c.1972, Bakersfield, California, USA. Learning acoustic guitar and mandolin from your unrecorded George Hendrix as a man, Lacey relocated to Jackson, where he added towards the musical suggestions of Tommy Johnson and Ishman Bracey. In 1927, he documented a solitary, but exceptional …

b. 1 August 1907, Missoula, Montana, USA, d. 16 Feb 1997, Sacramento, California, USA. When Kemper considered music group leading in 1942, he previously already produced his name with Dick Jurgens’ orchestra from 1934-40, playing on the massive strike, ‘Cecilia’. He also made an appearance often in Horace Heidt’s Container …

b. 14 January 1915, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, d. 20 July 1976, NORTH PARK, California, USA. A blues guitarist, affected by Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a pianist, Jeffery caused a carnival as a guy, snake-charming and boxing against all comers. He relocated to California ‘with all of those other Okies’ in …

b. 18 March 1886, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 29 Sept 1970, Encino, California, USA. On stage from 1908, Horton made an appearance in Gilbert And Sullivan operas and was on Broadway within a helping function in Elevating A Hubby (1912); four years later he came back to superstar in …