• MC (and only drag king) of the Jewel Box Revue, North America's first racially integrated drag revue. The revue regularly played the Apollo Theater in Harlem...
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    Commons has media related to Red Hook, Brooklyn. Gowanus and Red Hook travel guide from Wikivoyage Red Hook Star-Revue local newspaper distributed in Red...
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    television producer, based in Brooklyn, New York. Velour is known for winning the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race, her drag revue NightGowns, and her one-queen...
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    Shelly Clark (category Musicians from Brooklyn)
    In 1957, 9-year-old Clark was cast as part of the Cotton Club Revue of 1957. In the revue, she sang the song "Evalina" and shared the stage with Cab Calloway...
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    Dom DeLuise (category Comedians from Brooklyn)
    animated productions, particularly those of Don Bluth. DeLuise was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian American parents Vincenza "Jennie" (née DeStefano)...
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    17, 2010) was an American actress and singer. She was born in 1919 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Porfirio Romay, then-attache to the Mexican...
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    1927, until June 30, 1931. The first revue that Ellington's orchestra performed was called the "Creole Revue" and featured Adelaide Hall. Hall had just...
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  • Harvey Lembeck (category Male actors from Brooklyn)
    director Michael Lembeck and actress Helaine Lembeck. Lembeck was born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family. Lembeck started his career right out of New Utrecht...
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    Jack Carter (comedian) (category Male actors from Brooklyn)
    June 28, 2015) was an American comedian, actor, and television presenter. Brooklyn-born, Carter had a long-running comedy act similar to fellow rapid-paced...
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    Jack Gilford (category Musicians from Brooklyn)
    the People (1940–1941, musical revue) They Should Have Stood in Bed (1942, play) Alive and Kicking (1950, musical revue) The Live Wire (1950, play) The...
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    Moe Howard (category Comedians from Brooklyn)
    bowl cut. Howard was born as Moses Harry Horwitz on June 19, 1897, in the Brooklyn, New York neighborhood of Bensonhurst, the fourth of five sons born to...
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    Sylvia Fine (category Musicians from Brooklyn)
    Danny Kaye; both were working on a short-lived Broadway show, The Straw Hat Revue. Fine wrote the lyrics and music for the show. Although the pair had never...
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  • Pins and Needles (1937) is a musical revue with a book by Arthur Arent, Marc Blitzstein, Emmanuel Eisenberg, Charles Friedman, David Gregory, Joseph Schrank...
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  • tree, but then added that the tree had died. "Well, what do you expect," quipped Allen, "when the tree is in Brooklyn and the sap is in Hollywood." Benny...
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  • Herbert Ross (category Film directors from Brooklyn)
    Schwartz-Dorothy Fields musical adaptation of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951). For TV he choreographed All Star Revue, The Milton Berle Show, and The Steve Allen Plymouth...
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    Rhea Perlman (category Actresses from Brooklyn)
    and Barbie (2023). Perlman was born on March 31, 1948, in Coney Island, Brooklyn, to Philip Perlman, a Polish immigrant who was a manager at a doll parts...
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    Shemp Howard (category Comedians from Brooklyn)
    illness. Howard was born Samuel Horwitz on March 11, 1895 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York. He was the third of five Horwitz brothers born to Lithuanian...
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  • William Hickey (actor) (category People from Flatbush, Brooklyn)
    Nicholson. Hickey died from emphysema and bronchitis in 1997. His remains are interred in the Cemetery of the Evergreens in Brooklyn. He died during the filming...
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    Mickey Rooney (category Comedians from Brooklyn)
    valued at only $18,000 when he died in 2014. Rooney and his wife Jan toured the country in 2005 through 2011 in a musical revue called Let's Put on a Show...
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    by Arthur Freed at Metro." She made her Broadway stage debut in the 1946 revue Three to Make Ready. In 1951, she moved to London to star in the West End...
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    Rita Gardner (category Actresses from Brooklyn)
    one-woman revue Try to Remember: A Look Back at Off-Broadway at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York City on Saturday evenings. The revue included...
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    Carl Hancock Rux (category Writers from Brooklyn)
    albums, singles, and mixed tapes since the release of his Sony 550 cd, Rux Revue. Rux's mixed media works (with frequent collaborator, visual artist and...
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    Walshe, on July 26, 1900, in New York City. Living his early years in Brooklyn, Walshe had a form of restricted growth, and as a result never grew to...
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    (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012)...
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  • New York, 1990 New Jack City, 1991 Boyz n the Hood, 1991 Straight Out of Brooklyn, 1991 Deep Cover, 1992 Juice, 1992 Just Another Girl on the I.R.T., 1992...
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    fashion model. Her father, Joseph Blacker, was a candy store owner in Brooklyn, and later an accountant. Louise attended PS 6, Scarborough Day School...
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    Thrilling Adventure Hour, Kevin Cozner in Brooklyn Nine-Nine (he also hosts a podcast based on the sitcom, titled Brooklyn Nine-Nine: The Podcast), Trevor Nelsson...
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    collaborations with Howard Dietz. Schwartz was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City, on November 25, 1900. He taught himself to play the harmonica...
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  • Aided by 'Day in Cannes' Party GUESTS IN SPORTS ATTIRE Juniors Manikins in Revue-- Dancing and Shipboard Games Are Features". Times Machine, The New York...
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  • Eleanor Reissa (category Actresses from Brooklyn)
    Brooklyn College, graduating cum laude. One of Reissa's earliest professional credits was as a member of the 1977 National Lampoon comedy stage revue...
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