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James Berry (entertainer)
James Gerald Berry (July 9, 1915 – January 28, 1969), also known as Bubbles, was an American actor and dancer. He featured in several silent films as a child, and starred in the Berry Brothers dance duo (later a trio) alongside his brothers. As a child, Berry and his older brother Ananias Berry, Ananias (Nyas) began performing dance routines together. The family moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, and Berry began acting in silent comedy films with the Century Film Corporation. He formed the Berry Brothers dance duo with Nyas in the 1920s, and they were later joined by their younger brother Warren Berry (actor), Warren. The brothers starred in several Broadway theatre, Broadway shows together, and featured in films through the 1930s and 1940s. Early life James Gerald Berry was born on July 9, 1915, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Ananais and Redna Berry. As a child, Berry and his older brother Ananais (Nyas) began touring the church circuit in Chicago, reciting poems by Paul Lauren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, most populous city in Louisiana and the French Louisiana region, the second-most populous in the Deep South, and the twelfth-most populous in the Southeastern United States. The city is coextensive with Orleans Parish, Louisiana, Orleans Parish. New Orleans serves as a major port and a commercial hub for the broader Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast region. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of approximately 1 million, making it the most populous metropolitan area in Louisiana and the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 59th-most populous in the United States. New Orleans is world-renowned for Music of New Orleans, its distincti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abe Stern
Abe Stern (March 8, 1888 – July 12, 1951) was an American film producer. He produced 542 films between 1917 and 1929. He was a co-founder of Universal Studios. He was born in Fulda, Germany, and died in Los Angeles County, California. He was the brother of producer Julius Stern and the brother-in-law of Universal Studios co-founder Carl Laemmle. He was entombed at Home of Peace Cemetery. Selected filmography * '' Business Before Honesty'' (1918) * '' Hello Trouble'' (1918) * '' Painless Love'' (1918) * '' The King of the Kitchen'' (1918) * '' Hop, the Bellhop'' (1919) * ''The Freckled Fish ''The Freckled Fish'' is a 1919 American silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy. Cast * Chai Hong as Chai Chow * Oliver Hardy as Solomon Soopmeat (as Babe Hardy) * Eva Novak Eva Barbara Novak (February 14, 1898 – April 17, 198 ...'' (1919) * '' Lions and Ladies'' (1919) * '' Hearts in Hock'' (1919) * '' Laughing Gas'' (1920) External links * * 1888 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackbirds Of 1930
Blackbird, blackbirds, black bird or black birds may refer to: Birds Two groups of birds in the parvorder Passerida: * New World blackbirds, family Icteridae * Old World blackbirds, any of several species belonging to the genus ''Turdus'' in the family Turdidae ** Chinese blackbird **Common blackbird ** Grey-winged blackbird ** Indian blackbird ** Somali thrush or Somali blackbird **Tibetan blackbird **White-collared blackbird Arts, entertainment, and media Books * ''Black Bird'' (Basilières novel), 2003, by Michel Basilières * ''Blackbird'' (Dibia novel), 2011 * ''Blackbirds'' (Wendig novel), 2012, by Chuck Wendig * ''Blackbird'' (memoir), 2000, by Jennifer Lauck * ''Blackbird'', a 1986 novel by Larry Duplechan * ''Blackbird'' (journal), an online journal of literature and the arts * ''Black Bird'' (manga), 2007, by Kanoko Sakurakoji * "Blackbird", a short story in '' Fragments of Horror'' * Blackbird (comics), an aircraft in the X-Men comics * Blackbird (Femizon), a vill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackbirds Of 1928
''Blackbirds of 1928'' was a hit Broadway musical revue that starred Adelaide Hall, Bill Bojangles Robinson, Tim Moore and Aida Ward, with music by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Dorothy Fields. It contained the hit songs "Diga Diga Do", the duo's first hit, " I Can't Give You Anything But Love", "Bandanna Babies" and "I Must Have That Man" all sung by Hall. History ''Blackbirds of 1928'' was the idea of impresario Lew Leslie, who planned to build the show around Florence Mills in New York City after her success in the hit show '' Blackbirds of 1926'' in Paris and London. Mills died from tuberculosis in 1927 before rehearsals for the new show had started and Hall was enlisted to replace her. ''Blackbirds of 1928'' started its life as a floorshow at Les Ambassadeurs Club on 57th Street, New York with songs written by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields. Fields recalled, "Lew Leslie (the producer) hired us to do a show called Blackbirds of 1928. First, we'd written songs for a sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lew Leslie
Lew Leslie (born Lewis Lessinsky; April 15, 1888 – March 10, 1963) was a American Jews, Jewish American writer and producer of Broadway theatre, Broadway shows. Leslie got his start in show business in vaudeville in his early twenties. Although white, he was the first major impresario to present African Americans, African American artists on the Broadway theatre, Broadway stage. He had two well-known wives, torch singer Belle Baker and Ziegfeld Follies showgirl Irene Wales. Career He became famous for his stage shows at the Cotton Club and later for his ''Blackbirds'' revues, which he mounted in 1926, 1928, 1930, 1933 and 1939. ''Blackbirds of 1928'' starring Adelaide Hall, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Tim Moore (comedian), Tim Moore and Aida Ward. It was his most successful revue and ran for over one year on Broadway, where it became the hit of the season. The sell-out show transferred to the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France, where it ran for three months before returning to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American Jazz piano, jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous Big band, jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington wrote or collaborated on more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, and many of his pieces have become Standard (music), standards. He also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, such as Juan Tizol's "Caravan (1937 song), Caravan", which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz. At the end of the 1930s, Ellington began a nearly thirty five-year collaboration with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cotton Club
The Cotton Club was a 20th-century nightclub in New York City. It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1936, then briefly in the midtown Theater District until 1940. The club operated during the United States' era of Prohibition and Jim Crow era racial segregation. Black people initially could not patronize the Cotton Club, but the venue featured many of the most popular black entertainers of the era, including musicians Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Chick Webb, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Fats Waller, Willie Bryant; vocalists Adelaide Hall,Iain Cameron Williams, Chapter 15, ''Underneath A Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall'', Continuum, 2002. Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Lillie Delk Christian, Aida Ward, Avon Long, the Dandridge Sisters, the Will Vodery choir, The Mills Brothers, Nina Mae McKinney, Billie Holiday, Midge Williams, Lena Horne, and dancers such as Katherine Dunham, Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tap Dance
Tap dance (or tap) is a form of dance that uses the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion; it is often accompanied by music. Tap dancing can also be performed with no musical accompaniment; the sound of the taps is its own music. It is an American artform that evolved alongside the advent of jazz music. Tap is a type of step dance that began with the combination of Southern American and Irish dance traditions, such as Irish soft-shoe and hard-shoe step dances, and a variety of both slave and freeman step dances. The fusion of African rhythms and performance styles with European techniques of footwork led to the creation of tap dance. This fusion began in the mid-17th century but did not become popular until the mid-19th century. There are two major versions of tap dance: rhythm (jazz) tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses on dance; it is widely performed in musical theater. Rhythm tap focuses on musicality, and practitioners consider themselve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Trimble
Arthur is a masculine given name of uncertain etymology. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. A common spelling variant used in many Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages is Artur. In Spanish and Italian it is Arturo. Etymology The earliest attestation of the name Arthur is in the early 9th century Welsh-Latin text ''Historia Brittonum'', where it refers to a circa 5th century Romano-British general who fought against the invading Saxons, and who later gave rise to the famous King Arthur of medieval legend and literature. A possible earlier mention of the same man is to be found in the epic Welsh poem ''Y Gododdin'' by Aneirin, which some scholars assign to the late 6th century, though this is still a matter of debate and the poem only survives in a late 13th century manuscript entitled the Book of Aneirin. A 9th-century Breton landowner named Arthur witnessed several charters collected in the '' Cartulary of Redon''. The Irish borrow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spec O'Donnell
Walter D. "Spec" O'Donnell (April 9, 1911 – October 14, 1986) was an American film actor who appeared in more than 190 films between 1923 and 1978. He worked frequently for producer Hal Roach, often appearing in silent comedies as the bratty son of Max Davidson or Charley Chase. His sound-era roles were mostly uncredited bits, often as bellhops, newsboys, and pages; he was playing adolescent roles well into his twenties. He has the unusual distinction of playing the same role (a newsboy) in both an original film and its remake: ''Princess O'Hara'' and ''It Ain't Hay''. Early life O'Donnell was born in Madera, California. His father, John O'Donnell, was a lumber mill labourer originally from Maryland. His mother and older siblings (Jack and Minnie) were born in California. Career In February 1924, O'Donnell signed with Julius Stern (producer), Julius and Abe Stern's Century Film Corporation. In 1924, O'Donnell starred in Walt Disney's ''Alice Comedies''. The first of these was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speed Boys
In kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as ''v'') of an object is the magnitude of the change of its position over time or the magnitude of the change of its position per unit of time; it is thus a non-negative scalar quantity. Introduction of the speed/velocity terminology by Prof. Tait, in 1882. The average speed of an object in an interval of time is the distance travelled by the object divided by the duration of the interval; the instantaneous speed is the limit of the average speed as the duration of the time interval approaches zero. Speed is the magnitude of ''velocity'' (a vector), which indicates additionally the direction of motion. Speed has the dimensions of distance divided by time. The SI unit of speed is the metre per second (m/s), but the most common unit of speed in everyday usage is the kilometre per hour (km/h) or, in the US and the UK, miles per hour (mph). For air and marine travel, the knot is commonly used. The fastest possible speed at which en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
