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"American Masters" Vaudeville (1997)
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Overview
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Writer:
Greg Palmer (writer)
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Original Air Date:
26 November 1997
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Vaudeville
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Theatre History
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Stage
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Theatre
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Reenactment
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A great summary of a bygone era of entertainment that provided us with our most versatile and talented performers
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Cast
(Episode Credited cast) | Ben Vereen | ... | Narrator |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Gracie Allen | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
 | Morey Amsterdam | ... | Himself |
| Carl Ballantine | ... | Himself |
| Ethel Barrymore | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
 | Billy Barty | ... | Himself |
| Eubie Blake | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Ray Bolger | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Fanny Brice | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Willie Bryant | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | George Burns | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | James Cagney | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Eddie Cantor | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Rosetta Duncan | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Vivian Duncan | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Julian Eltinge | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Joey Faye | ... | Himself |
| Benny Fields | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Lew Fields | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | W.C. Fields | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Trixie Friganza | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Morton Gould | ... | Himself |
| June Havoc | ... | Herself |
| Hildegarde | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
 | Bob Hope | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Bill Irwin | ... | Himself |
| Bert Lahr | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| John Lahr | ... | Himself |
| Moms Mabley | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Rose Marie | ... | Herself |
| Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Mae Murray | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Fayard Nicholas | ... | Himself |
| Harold Nicholas | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Molly Picon | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Eleanor Powell | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Leonard Reed | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Ginger Rogers | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Charles 'Chic' Sale | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Blossom Seeley | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Bobby Short | ... | Himself |
| Jack Spoons | ... | Himself |
| June Taylor | ... | Herself |
| Studs Terkel | ... | Himself |
| Arthur Tracy | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Ethel Waters | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Joe Weber | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Thelma White | ... | Herself |
| Bert Williams | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Walter Winchell | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
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120 min
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Just seeing the stars (Morey Ansterdam, Rose Marie, the Nicholas Brothers, BOBBY Short (not "Billy" as another contributor to this space wrote), the great Carl Ballantine, and many more provides the viewer with a living scrapbook and a real feeling for what it was like. After seeing this, I am sorry that vaudeville was dead when I grew up. Unfortunately, many of the performers from this show are now gone too. This is another reason why this oral history is so valuable to us now. It is a record of those days.
I remember vividly the great old variety shows I grew up with (Jack Benny, Jackie Gleason, Red Skelton, etc.). A great number of these people and their guests were products of the vaudeville era. It was niceto see many of them able to sing, dance and do comedy. You had to in order to survive. Vaudeville was a terrific training ground and this program shows us why.