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Jack Buchanan
BUCHANAN, Jack Nationality:British. Born:Helensburgh, Scotland, 2 April 1890. Education:Larchfield School, Helensburgh; Glasgow Academy. Family:Married 1) Saffro Arnau, 1915; 2) Suzie Bussett, 1949. Career:Amateur stage appearances while an office worker; ... Read more |
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Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson 1925-2005, American television entertainer, b. Corning, Iowa. Carson, who grew up in Nebraska, began his career as a magician, then wrote comedy sketches for radio and hosted daytime television quiz shows. From 1962 to 1992 he hosted "The Tonight Show," where the personable... Read more |
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Sol Hurok
Sol Hurok , 1888-1974, American impresario, b. Russia. Emigrating to the United States in 1906, Hurok was a peddler, streetcar conductor, bottlewasher, and hardware salesman before becoming the foremost impresario of his age. By his own estimation, he presented more than 4,000 artists and companies,... Read more |
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Gertrude Lawrence
Gertrude Lawrence 1902?-1952, English actress and singer. Her original name was Gertrud Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence-Klasen. Performing on the musical stage from childhood, Lawrence made her New York debut (1924) in Charlot's Revue, together with Beatrice Lillie. A childhood friend of Noel Coward,... Read more |
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Sylvester
Sylvester Disco singer Disco-era vocalist Sylvester was one of the first openly homosexual performers to achieve bestseller status. More than that, he was enthusiastically, flamboyantly gay, with an elaborate cross-dressing stage presence that he maintained on many of his recordings and in... Read more |
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Kevin Eubanks
Kevin Eubanks 1957– Musician At a Glance… Selected works Sources “Image not available for copyright reasons” Though Kevin Eubanks became a familiar name to millions of Americans when he became the Tonight Show bandleader in 1995, his reputation as a jazz guitarist had... Read more |
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William Frederick Yeames
Yeames, William Frederick (b Taganrog, Russia, 18 Dec. 1835; d Teignmouth, Devon, 3 May 1918). British painter. He was born in Russia, where his father was a British consul, had part of his education in Dresden, and moved to London in 1848. He specialized in scenes from British history,... Read more |
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Jim Bakker
BAKKER, JIM 1940- AND BAKKER, TAMMY 1942- Televagelist team; founders of the ptl network Beginnings In 1965 Jim and Tammy Bakker, two young, itinerant evangelists, joined station WYAH in Virginia, Beach, Virginia with a Christian puppet show. It quickly attracted a devoted local audience and also... Read more |
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Byron Allen
Byron Allen 1961– Comedian, talk show host At a Glance… Made Network Television Debut From Real People to the Comedy Circuit Talk Show Premiere a Success Sources Few entertainers reach their goals in life, but even fewer make it to the big time before the age of 20. Byron Allen knew... Read more |
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