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Phil Silvers ad libs in "Carry On Follow That Camel" (1967) CLIP
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Phil Silvers was a star of vaudeville and burlesque, then a much-loved supporting actor in films. Today he is most famous for his early television sitcom "The Bilko Show."
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Lillian Gish's 2nd Talkie, "His Double Life" (1933) CLIP
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This is a clip from "His Double Life," an entertaining romance based on a play and novel by Arnold Bennett.
THE STORY SO FAR: Roland Young stars as the painter Priam Fa...
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Boris Badenov Had to Come from Somewhere
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Akim Tamiroff was born in Tbilisi, Georgia of Armenian parents. He beat out 500 other applicants to study with Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theater. When the acting compa...
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Jack Benny, Fred Allen and Eddie Cantor (1953)
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Jack Benny and Fred Allen kept up a fictional feud in radio and films for over 20 years, but as this TV clip shows, they got along fine.
This episode of the Jack Benny ...
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Foreign Intrigue AKA Dateline Europe - Abduction
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"Foreign Intrigue," also known as "Dateline Europe," was a TV series that ran between in 1951 and 1955. The subjects were espionage and crime amid the ruins of post-WWII Eu...
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John W. Bubbles sings and dances "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (1960)
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Host Jim Morske has just interviewed Dorothy Fields, who wrote "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" with Jimmy McHugh. He then brings out John W. Bubbles, age 58, who perfo...
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Joe Frisco skewers Vaudeville in "The Happy Hottentots" (1930)
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This barbed short features Joe Frisco and Bob Callahan as struggling vaudevillians. They get one last booking in a movie house, where stage manager Billy Gilbert hires them...
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Trixie Friganza - "My Bag o' Trix" (1929) CLIP
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Trixie Friganza, born Delia O'Callaghan, began her stage career at the age of 19 and became a star in musical comedy and vaudeville. She used her fame to promote women's ri...
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A Great Double Act - The Howard Brothers in "Between the Acts at the Opera" (1926)
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Willie Howard first teamed with his brother Eugene and later went solo, with Eugene becoming his manager. After 10 years in vaudeville, Howard remained a star on Broadway f...
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A Wild Vaudeville Act - Conlin and Glass in "Sharps and Flats" (1928)
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This is one of the strangest, loosest, most chaotic vaudeville acts you'll ever see.
Jimmy Conlin was much loved by his fellow performers. When vaudeville opportunities...
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