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    nightclub and movie comedian best known as a Jerry Lewis imitator. Sammy Petrillo was born Sam Patrello in The Bronx, New York City, New York, to a show-business...
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    horror veteran Bela Lugosi with nightclub performers Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo in roles approximating the then-popular duo of Martin and Lewis. In...
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    "Sammy Petrillo Speaks Out (1992 interview with Petrillo)". WFMU.org. Archived from the original on July 10, 2019. Rutt, Todd. "Duke Mitchell & Sammy Petrillo:...
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  • Luigi Petrillo (1903–1964), Italian pentathlete Sammy Petrillo (1934–2009), American comedian best known as a Jerry Lewis lookalike Sophia Petrillo, character...
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    Pennsylvania. In 1951, he teamed with comic Sammy Petrillo for a nightclub act. Mitchell's cabaret-style crooning and Petrillo's manic, rubber-faced clowning bore...
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    comedy Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, starring Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo. That same year, she won a regular role on the sitcom Life with Luigi...
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    Beauty-contest M.C. Audrey Devereau – Jeannie Reynolds Eddie Carmel – Monster Sammy Petrillo – Art (uncredited) The film was shot independently around Tarrytown...
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  • (1972) (also known as Is There Love After Marriage?) starring comedian Sammy Petrillo. In the mid-1970s, she went on to direct two low-budget thrillers featuring...
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    starring nightclub comedians Duke Mitchell and Jerry Lewis look-alike Sammy Petrillo, whose act closely resembled that of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (Martin...
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  • Flintstones cartoons) and was once part of a comedy duo with partner Sammy Petrillo who together starred in the 1952 cult film Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn...
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    Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952), comedy featuring Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo, as Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis clones, meet Béla Lugosi on a remote...
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  • briefly as the cornerman in the boxing scene. He would later team with Sammy Petrillo and star in Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, in which they play...
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    Friend Bub, Glenn & His Friend Flub, Joey the Monkey 8 February 25, 1988 Sammy Petrillo (Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla), former Burt Reynolds love interest...
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  • (d. 2022) 1934 – Margie Masters, Australian golfer (d. 2022) 1934 – Sammy Petrillo, American actor (d. 2009) 1934 – Sanger D. Shafer, American singer-songwriter...
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    veteran horror-movie actor and the comedy team of Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo, who imitated Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Bride of the Gorilla and...
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    Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla William Beaudine Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo Comedy Realart The Belle of New York Charles Walters Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen...
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    and final season. Milioti portrayed Jordan Belfort's first wife, Teresa Petrillo, in the 2013 Martin Scorsese film The Wolf of Wall Street. In February...
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  • the nights when Broadway Open House wasn't on. Sid Gould George Frees Sammy Petrillo Dorothy Keller Jane Scott Denise Lor Betsy Luster Jack Stanton Jackie...
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  • Moussa, 50, Palestinian cleric, leader of Jund Ansar Allah, bomb blast. Sammy Petrillo, 74, American comedian, cancer. André Prokovsky, 70, French dancer,...
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  • "My Coloring Book" (John Kander, Fred Ebb) "Jim" (Nelson Shawn, Caesar Petrillo, Edward Rose) "Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)" (Paul Francis Webster...
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  • 4:30 "I Think I'll Tell Him" (Thom Bell, Linda Creed) – 4:50 "Jim" (James Petrillo, Milton Samuels, Nelson Shawn) – 5:03 "Crazy He Calls Me" (Carl Sigman...
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    Dana would also have a recurring role on The Golden Girls as Sophia Petrillo's brother Angelo. He also played her father in a flashback. In addition...
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  • Bobby Hughes Episode: "The Haunting" 2014–2015 Pretty Little Liars Cyrus Petrillo Recurring role (season 5; 4 episodes) 2015 A Deadly Adoption Dwayne Tisdale...
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  • chef, 158 Café, South Portland, ME (eliminated after the dessert) Vinson Petrillo, Executive Sous chef, Caviar Russe, New York, NY (winner) 109 13 "Duck...
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    openly rebelled against American Federation of Musicians President James Petrillo in a representation dispute during the mid-1950s. They hosted the first...
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  • Garfunkel, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Richard Pryor, Tina Turner, Liberace, Sammy Davis Jr., Whitney Houston, Liza Minnelli, James Brown, Sonny & Cher, Patti...
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  • Gershwin) – 4:46 "Why Shouldn't I?" (Cole Porter) – 3:28 "Jim" (Caesar Petrillo, Edward Ross, Nelson Shawn) – 4:33 "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Johnny Burke...
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  • than two years after the final studio session in 1941, and during the Petrillo recording ban; the AFM waived the strike terms for the recording of V-discs...
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  • Changes Made" and "The Trolley Song" – the latter being a late-1944, post-Petrillo-ban, rush-to-market, swing band vocal duet with Monroe. Marilyn Duke learned...
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     2020 (2020-05-31) Carla Hall, Steve Higgins Rhubarb Kathy Sidell, Vinson Petrillo Michele Ragussis, James Briscione, Hannah Wong Lobster Rolls Bobby Flay...
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