Entertainment
The Florida Trio
Source.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 22, 2017 -
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Category: Entertainment, 1940s, 1950s
Chicago Bar Association Annual Musical Revue
Who knew that Chicago lawyers and judges and other legal folks have been doing a theatrical production for nearly 100 years?
Their home page.
The origin story is told in the 1954 review below.
The videos reveal that none of these folks should leave their day jobs.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 22, 2017 -
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Category: Entertainment, Law, 1920s
Mystery Illustration 38
These three performers had a stage act. They even appeared on Milton Berle's TV show. What was their shtick?
Answer after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 04, 2017 -
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Category: Entertainment, 1940s
Charmion the Strongwoman, and Her Trapeze Disrobing Act
Her full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 08, 2016 -
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Category: Entertainment, Public Indecency, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Bodybuilding
Lord Littlebrook, RIP
Obituary here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 14, 2016 -
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Category: Entertainment, Human Marvels, Wrestling, 1980s, 1990s
Strip Polka
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 20, 2016 -
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Category: Entertainment, Dance, Music, Public Indecency, 1940s, Nudism, Skin and Skin Conditions
Chicago’s Acro-Theater
Plays that also featured acrobatic & gymnastic stunts. I'm thinking Shakespeare should be performed this way. Hamlet's soliloquy delivered on a trampoline.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 05, 2016 -
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Category: Entertainment, Exercise and Fitness, Regionalism, Sports, Performance Art, 1940s, 1950s
Shirley Dinsdale and Judy Splinters
Female ventriloquists are pretty rare. So it's always weird to find a forgotten one, especially one who might be remembered for garnering the first Emmy award ever given. Shirley Dinsdale might have been talented, but Judy Splinters was surely ugly as all get-out.
This 1945 radio show (not embeddable) features her act in its prime, starting after the 3-minute mark.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 22, 2016 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Entertainment, Puppets and Automatons, 1940s
Balloon Girl
1947: The entertainment at gunmaker Melvin Johnson's dinner party was a balloon-clad model whom guests (apparently a bunch of old men) shot at with a pellet gun between courses. To the guests' great frustration, the balloons failed to break.
Source: Life - June 30, 1947
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 31, 2015 -
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Category: Entertainment, 1940s
Sitting in a pool
Rudi Carrell was a popular entertainer in Germany, host of the long-running Rudi Carrell Show. Here he sits in a pool and sings in German as women swim around him.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 13, 2015 -
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Category: Entertainment, 1970s
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