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Cabaret (British TV Series)
''Cabaret'' is a live television variety programme series broadcast by BBC Television 193639 and 1946. It was devised by Dallas Bower, and later developed by Harry Pringle, who also produced 68 episodes. BBC Television began regularly scheduled broadcasts on 2 November 1936; the first episode of ''Cabaret'' was shown on 7 November 1936, and this television series was therefore one of the first ever. No episodes have survived. ''Cabaret'' yielded six spin-off series, among the very earliest of that kind: '' Cabaret Cartoons'' (193639, 1949), ''Cabaret Cruise'' (193739, 1946, 1949), '' Comedy Cabaret'' (193839), ''Eastern Cabaret'' (193839), '' Intimate Cabaret'' (193739) and '' Western Cabaret'' (1939). In August 1939, Pringle was planning another spin-off, a Hawaiian cabaret to have been broadcast in October 1939; but that project seems to have been abandoned with the outbreak of World War II. Performers Around 280 performing acts appeared in ''Cabaret'' over the five years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety Show
Variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is entertainment made up of a variety of acts including musical performances, sketch comedy, magic, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism. It is normally introduced by a compère (master of ceremonies) or host. The variety format made its way from the Victorian era stage in Britain and America to radio and then television. Variety shows were a staple of English language television from the late 1940s into the 1980s. While still widespread in some parts of the world, such as in the United Kingdom with the '' Royal Variety Performance'', and South Korea with '' Running Man'', the proliferation of multichannel television and evolving viewer tastes have affected the popularity of variety shows in the United States. Despite this, their influence has still had a major effect on late night television whose late-night talk shows and NBC's variety series '' Saturday Night Live'' (which originally premiered in 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teddy Brown
Teddy is an English language given name, usually a hypocorism of Edward or Theodore. It may refer to: People Nickname * Teddy Atlas (born 1956), boxing trainer and fight commentator * Teddy Bourne (born 1948), British Olympic epee fencer * Teddy Bridgewater (born 1992), Minnesota Vikings quarterback * Teddy Dunn (born 1981), American actor * Teddy Edwards (1924–2003), American jazz saxophonist * Tivadar Farkasházy (born 1945), Hungarian humorist, author, mathematician, economist and journalist * Teddy Gipson (born 1980), American basketball player * Teddy Higuera (born 1957), former Major League Baseball pitcher * Teddy Hoad (1896–1986), West Indian cricketer * Ted Kennedy (1932–2009), long-serving American Senator from Massachusetts * Teddy Kollek (1911–2007), six-time mayor of Jerusalem * Theodore Long (born 1947), general manager for World Wrestling Entertainment * Teddy Morgan (1880–1949), Welsh international rugby union player * Teddy Park (born 1978 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyam Greenbaum
Hyam 'Bumps' Greenbaum (12 May 1901 – 13 May 1942) was an English conductor, violinist and composer, who, in 1936, became the world's first conductor of a television orchestra. He was friendly with many of his English music contemporaries, including Constant Lambert, Alan Rawsthorne, and William Walton, and often helped them with technical advice on orchestration.Spike Hughes, ''Opening Bars'' (1946) p 354-5 His brother Bernard (1917–1993) was an artist, and his sister was the pianist and composer Kyla Greenbaum (1922–2017). Early career As a child, Greenbaum was taught violin by his English mother Edith (nee Etherington) and piano by his father (Solomon Greenbaum, a Jewish Russian born in Poland and sent to England to train as a tailor). He made his musical debut in Brighton at the age of seven, playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto in a velvet suit and lace collar.Rosen, Carole. ''The Goossens: A Musical Century'' (1993), pp. 88-92 He studied at the Brighton School of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Gore
Walter Gore (8 October 1910 – 16 April 1979) was a British ballet dancer, company director and choreographer. Early life Walter Gore was born in Waterside, East Ayrshire Scotland in 1910 into a theatrical family. From 1924, he studied acting at the Italia Conti Academy, and dance with Léonide Massine and with Marie Rambert. Career Gore was a dancer with Ballet Rambert from 1930 to 1935. He returned as a choreographer in 1938 with his first ballet ''Final Waltz''. In 1944, whilst on leave from Army duty in France, Gore created a ballet based on Benjamin Britten's Simple Symphony also entitled ''Simple Symphony'' for the Ballet Rambert. The work was largely created on Sally Gilmour and Margaret Scott. He remained at Ballet Rambert until 1950 and then worked occasionally with the Ballets des Champs-Elysées and the Sadler's Wells Ballet. He founded his own company, The Walter Gore Ballet, in 1953. He led the Frankfurt Ballet from 1957 to 1959, then became the founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Godfrey (director)
Peter Godfrey (16 October 1899 – 4 March 1970) was an English actor and film director. Founder of the experimental Gate Theatre Salon in 1925, with his first wife Molly Veness, he staged London's first expressionistic production in the following year. He went into partnership with Velona Pilcher in 1927 and together they opened the Gate Theatre Studio in Villiers Street, Charing Cross. Eventually moving to Hollywood, he established a career as a film actor and director. Life and career Godfrey began his career as a conjuror, clown, actor and director in repertory theatres around the United Kingdom. However, he became increasingly dissatisfied with the standard repertory plays, being himself attracted to the experimental works of American and Continental directors, and the avant-garde playwrights of the 1920s. To stage such plays, he and his wife, the actress Molly Veness, rented a room in Floral Street, Covent Garden, which they were forced to run as a private club since London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Geray
Steven Geray (born István Gyergyai, 10 November 190426 December 1973) was a Hungarian-born American film actor who appeared in over 100 films and dozens of television programs. Geray appeared in numerous famed A-pictures, including Alfred Hitchcock's '' Spellbound'' (1945) and ''To Catch a Thief'' (1955), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's '' All About Eve'' (1950), and Howard Hawks' '' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'' (1953). However, it was in film noir that be became a fixture, being cast in over a dozen pictures in the genre. Among them were '' The Mask of Dimitrios'' (1944), ''Gilda'' (1946), '' The Unfaithful'' (1947), '' In a Lonely Place'' (1950), and '' The House on Telegraph Hill'' (1951). Early life Geray was born István Gyergyai in Ungvár, Austria-Hungary (now Uzhhorod, Ukraine) and educated at the University of Budapest. Career Geray made his first stage appearance at the Hungarian National Theater under his real name and after nearly four years he made his London stage de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Frankau
Ronald Hugh Wyndham Frankau (22 February 1894 – 11 September 1951) was an English comedian who started in cabaret and made his way to radio and films. Family Frankau was born in London, the third child of Arthur Frankau, son of Joseph Frankau, a German Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""T ... who came to London from Frankfurt in the late 1830s and started a cigar trading business. His mother was Julia Frankau, Julia Davis Frankau, who would later become a celebrated writer of satirical novels. His mother's siblings included Henry Irving's mistress Eliza Davis, Eliza Aria and theatre critic and librettist Owen Hall, whilst their sister Florette was married to architect Marcus Evelyn Collins, Marcus Collins, a brother of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Drury Lane Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Fletcher
Cyril Fletcher (25 June 1913 – 2 January 2005) was an English comedian, actor and businessman. His catchphrase was 'Pin back your lugholes'. He was best known for his "Odd Odes", which later formed a section of the television show ''That's Life!'', a role for which he was approached in error. So successful was he however, that he stayed on the show from 1973 to 1981. He first began performing the Odd Odes in 1937, long before they first appeared on television (though he did appear on pre World War II television). Fletcher came up with the idea when he was short of material for a radio show. The first, ''Odd Ode'', was a comic, yet sentimental, reading of Edgar Wallace's war poem ''Dreamin' of Thee''. Following this broadcast, he was given a regular programme on Radio Luxembourg; it was this show that brought him to national attention. He called himself "the odd oder". He also appeared as a panellist on the popular panel show on BBC, ''What's My Line?'', that ran from 1951 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Duprez
Fred Duprez (September 6, 1884 – October 27, 1938) was an American actor, comedian and singer who performed in vaudeville, phonograph record and film. He made phonograph recordings in the US and the UK in the 1900s, 1910s, and 1920s. Most of the films he appeared in were British. He was also a writer, and wrote the popular stage farce '' My Wife's Family'', filmed three times in Britain, firstly in 1931; once in Sweden in 1932; and once in Finland, in 1933. Fred Duprez was born in Detroit, Michigan. He died from a heart attack on board a ship en route to England. He was the father of the actress, June Duprez. Partial filmography * ''Heads We Go'' (1933) - George Anderson * '' Meet My Sister'' (1933) - Hiram Sowerby * '' My Old Duchess'' (1934) - Jesse Martin * '' Without You'' (1934) - Baron Gustav von Steinmeyer * '' Love, Life and Laughter'' (1934) - Sam Greenbaum * ''Danny Boy'' (1934) - Leo Newman * '' Dance Band'' (1935) - Lewes * '' No Monkey Business'' (1935) - Theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Dolman
Richard Dolman (November 30, 1895 – February 3, 1978) was a British stage and film actor. He worked frequently in musical theatre, appearing in Noël Coward's revue '' On with the Dance'' in 1925, and alongside Jessie Matthews in the 1927 revue ''One Dam Thing After Another''. He also featured in Oscar Hammerstein's 1934 musical '' Three Sisters''. Dolman appeared in nine films, often playing romantic leads in releases such as the Ealing Studios comedy ''Looking on the Bright Side''. Filmography * ''Looking on the Bright Side'' (1932) * ''The Good Companions'' (1933) * '' The Man Who Changed His Name'' (1934) * ''Lucky Loser'' (1934) * ''Love on the Spot'' (1934) * ''Southern Roses'' (1936) * ''This Green Hell ''This Green Hell'' is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Randall Faye and starring Edward Rigby, Sybil Grove and Richard Dolman. It was made at Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames as a quota quickie for release by the American compa ...'' (1936) * '' Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impalement Arts
Impalement arts are a type of performing art in which a performer plays the role of human target for a fellow performer who demonstrates accuracy skills in disciplines such as knife throwing and archery. Impalement is actually what the performers endeavor to avoid – the thrower or marksman aims ''near'' the target rather than at them. The objective is to land the throw or shot as close as possible to the assistant's body without causing injury. Impalement arts are often found in circuses and sideshows as well as sometimes in variety, cabaret or burlesque shows. In addition, impalement acts have provided subject matter for literature, art, photography and film and television scripts. There are important distinctions between knife throwing or archery practiced as competitive sports and similar skills displayed as impalement arts. For example, organizing bodies for competitive archery prohibit activity that involves deliberate shooting in the general direction of a human being. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Dall
Evelyn Dall (born Evelyn Mildred Fuss; January 8, 1918 – March 10, 2010) was an American singer and actress. Career Born in The Bronx, New York City as Evelyn Mildred Fuss, she took her stage name from the surname of two grandchildren of President Franklin D Roosevelt. Dall began her career in short films and in supporting roles on Broadway. In 1935, she was invited to become the female vocalist for Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra, in the UK, where she remained until 1946. She was known there as Britain's "Original Blonde Bombshell". In 1946, she returned to the United States where she married and raised a daughter and son. Widowed in 1974, Dall moved to Jupiter, Florida, in 1980, then to Arizona in 2002. Musical films *1936 '' Soft Lights and Sweet Music'' *1937 ''Calling All Stars'' *1937 ''Sing as You Swing'' *1938 '' Kicking the Moon Around'' *1941 ''He Found a Star'' *1942 ''King Arthur Was a Gentleman'' *1943 ''Miss London Ltd.'' *1944 '' Time Flies'' Theater mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
