Fanchon and Marco were a duo of American dancers, theatrical producers, and entrepreneurs. A sister and brother, they performed as dancers in vaudeville...

movies and toured with Fanchon and Marco vaudeville shows. In 1933 she founded her all-female jazz band, whose name often changed from "Peggy Gilbert and Her...

height; Barto was 4'11" and Mann was 6'6". Initially dancing as singles in Fanchon and Marco's Variety Idea and Dancelogue Idea, Barto and Mann began dancing...

continued performing as a single with Fanchon and Marco enterprises in 1925. While performing as a single with Fanchon and Marco in early 1926, Barto (4'11", the...

Raymond B. Egan and Gus Kahn. It was first performed in 1920 in the Fanchon and Marco revue Satires of 1920, then moved into vaudeville and recordings. "Ain't...

Felt to Wright and Freida Felt on January 18, 1931. Carroll developed into an excellent singer and tap dancer at the Fanchon and Marco Dancing School...

style. Leading producers and choreographers included Fanchon and Marco, Leon Leonidoff, Chester Hale, J. A. Partington, and Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel. Some...

stage dance with the same name by Fanchon and Marco. The word "Carioca" refers to inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro. Astaire and Roger's short dance has historical...

as master of ceremonies for the Fanchon and Marco shows. During the Great Depression, Ruick doubled as a bandleader and as an actor in theatrical stock...

and made his musical debut as a boy violin prodigy, gaining nationwide fame. He toured North America as a jazz violinist on the Fanchon and Marco Vaudeville...

and Rinker decided to seek fame in California. They traveled to Los Angeles, where Bailey introduced them to her show business contacts. The Fanchon and...

She moved to Los Angeles in 1929, where she designed outfits for Fanchon and Marco and later the Ice Follies. In the early 1940s, she spent two years working...

monographs: Lollipop: Vaudeville Turns with a Fanchon and Marco Dancer (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002). (Contributor and editor) Manhole Covers of Los Angeles...

March 1930, Phyllis went to America and, under the name of Phyllis du Barry, toured the coast with the Fanchon and Marco Company. After arriving in Hollywood...

the age of 12, in 1935, Porter arrived in Hollywood and took dancing lessons at the Fanchon and Marco dancing school, where she was discovered by director...

and wrote revues for the California Theatre[full citation needed] before moving on to Fresno and Oakland. For two years he was emcee with Fanchon and...

old. She also appeared in Berkeley productions of Irving Pichel and in Fanchon and Marco revues. Based on her dancing ability, Chevret broke into the film...

Chester Hale of the prologue production company Fanchon and Marco. Cagney had gotten his start in vaudeville and Broadway before going into film work; the film...

Cashin was hired by a Los Angeles ballet and theatrical revue company, Fanchon and Marco, to help make costumes for its productions. After she graduated in...

and "Moving Picture Shows Twenty Years Ago," a well-received parodic recreation of cinema's early days, was presented as part of Fanchon and Marco's latest...

and Maye Wong. She attended the Fanchon and Marco School of the Theater. She began her performance career at the age of five, as she could read and had...

21, George and Dewey signed a ten-year contract with Fanchon and Marco as the comedy team Barto and Mann. During 1926, they performed up and down the west...

fresh from assisting Larry Ceballos at Fanchon and Marco, to help him with the new routines on Chi Chi and Her Papas. But a week after Hecht's arrival...

vocal act. Crosby and Rinker began as a minor part of The Syncopation Idea, a short revue put out by the Fanchon and Marco agency, and it was there that...

(1898–1986) was an actress whose career began in silent films, and continued into sound films, radio, and television. She was also active in the theatre. Her early...

Francisco – Oakland area. When they began to perform up and down the West Coast on the Fanchon and Marco circuit, their name was changed to The Williams Four...

Steve Mills along the Fanchon and Marco circuit in 1932. Devlin was a member of house company at Detroit's National Theater in 1922, and Newark's Strand in...

that job and returned to San Francisco, where she joined the Fanchon and Marco vaudeville company. Al Christie saw her in those performances and signed...

OF THE STAGE; The Soviet's Comedy Tonight -- 'Porgy and Bess' Postponed a Day -- A Fanchon and Marco Revue" (PDF). The New York Times. October 3, 1935....

1937, by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by George Archenbaud and Produced by Fanchon. Star-gazing department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy believes...