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Rust, Brian
Debus, Allen G.
The complete entertainment discography from 1897 to 1942
Second edition
Brian Rust and Allen G. Debus
New York: Da Capo Press, 1989, 794 p.


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  Aldwell, Ernest (b. 1882 d. 1918)   musical comedy actor, singer
  Anderson, Eddie "Rochester" (b. 1905 d. 1977)   alto saxophone, cast
  Andrews, LaVerne (b. 1915 d. 1967)   singer, vocals
  Andrews, Maxene (b. 1918)   cast, singer
  Andrews, Patty [Patricia] (b. 1920)   singer
  Arthur, George K. (b. 1899 a. 1929)   actor, librettist
  Arthur, Julia (b. 1869 d. 1950)   actress
  Arville, Camille (b. 1863 d. 1932)   cast, comic opera prima donna
  Ash, Sam (b. 1884 d. 1951)   cast, composer
  Astaire, Adele (b. 1897 d. 1981)   cast, singer
  Astaire, Fred (b. 1899 d. 1987 a. 1929)   cast, choreographer
  Atwell, Roy (b. 1878 d. 1962)   cast, comedian
  Austin, Gene [Eugene Lucas] (b. 1900 d. 1972)   crooner, piano
  Avery, Van (b. 1879 d. 1937)   black-face vaudeville comedian
  Baby Rose Marie (b. 1925 a. 1930)   child radio artist
  Bacon, Frank (b. 1864 d. 1922 a. 1899)   actor
  Bailey, Mildred (b. 1907 d. 1951)   composer, singer
  Baker, Belle (b. 1895 d. 1957)   cast, vaudeville entertainer
  Baker, Josephine (b. 1906 d. 1975)   cast, singer
  Baker, Kenny (b. 1912 a. 1938-1947)   singer
  Baker, Phil (b. 1896 d. 1963)   composer, comedian
  Ball, Ernest R. (b. 1878 d. 1927)   composer, songwriter
  Bankhead, Tallulah (b. 1902 d. 1968)   actor, cast
  Barry, Katie (a. 1904)   cast, singer
  Barrymore, John (b. 1882 d. 1942)   actor, cast
  Barthelmess, Richard (b. 1895 d. 1963)   actor
  Barthold, Anna (a. 1890s)   vaudeville singer, female baritone
  Barton, James (b. 1890 d. 1962)   clog dancer, singer
  Bayes, Nora (b. 1880 d. 1928)   actress, cast
  Bell, Digby (Valentine) (b. 1851 d. 1917)   actor, cast
  Bergner, Elisabeth (b. 1900)   actress, singer
  Berlin, Irving (b. 1888 d. 1989)   cast, composer
  Bernard, Barney (b. 1878 d. 1924 a. 1916)   character comedian
  Bernard, Rhoda (a. 1915)   character comedienne
  Bernhardt, Sarah (b. 1844 d. 1923)   actress
  Berry, Noah (b. 1884 d. 1946)   actor, singer
  Bert, Flo (a. 1910s-1920s)   vaudeville entertainer
  Bingham, Ralph (b. 1870 d. 1925)   entertainer, actor
  Blaine, Vivian (b. 1921)   cast, singer
  Bledsoe, Jules (b. 1898 d. 1943)   cast, singer
  Boles, John (b. 1895 d. 1969)   cast, singer
  Booth, Edwin Thomas (b. 1833 d. 1893 a. 1849)   actor
  Bordoni, Irene (b. 1895 d. 1953)   actress, cast
  Boswell, Connee [Connie] (b. 1907 d. 1976)   singer, vocals
  Boswell, Martha (b. 1905 d. 1958)   piano, singer
  Boswell, Vet [Helvetia] (b. 1908 d. 1988 a. 1931-1938)   singer
  Bowers, Frederick V. (b. 1874 d. 1961)   cast, composer
  Bowlly, Al [Albert Alex] (b. 1898 d. 1941)   banjo, guitar
  Boyer, Lucienne [Emilienne-Henriette] (b. 1903 d. 1983)   cabaret singer, cast
  Brady, Alice (b. 1893 d. 1939)   actress, cast
  Breen, Bobby (b. 1927 d. 1972)   boy soprano, vocals
  Brice, Elisabeth (b. 1892 d. 1965)   singer, actress
  Brice, Fanny (b. 1891 d. 1951)   actress, cast
  Briscoe, Olive (b. 1887)   vaudeville artist
  Brisson, Carl (b. 1893 d. 1958)   cast, champion boxer
  Brockman, James (b. 1886 d. 1967)   composer, lyricist
  Brooks, Shelton (b. 1886 d. 1975)   cast, composer
  Brown, Joe E. [Joseph Evans] (b. 1892 d. 1973)   actor, cast
  Browning, Joe (a. 1910-1930)   cast, vaudeville entertainer
  Brox, Lorraine (a. 1920s)   singer
  Bruce, Carol (b. 1919)   cast, singer
  Bruce, Virginia (b. 1910 d. 1982)   actress, cast
  Buchanan, Jack (b. 1891 d. 1957)   actor, cast
  Buckley, Floyd (b. 1874 d. 1956)   singer, the original voice of "Popeye" on radio
  Burbeck, Frank (b. 1857 d. 1930)   actor
  Burnside, Richard H. (b. 1870 d. 1952)   cast, director
  Bush, Frank (b. 1856 d. 1927 a. 1905)   vaudeville entertainer, raconteur
  Butler, Amy (a. 1908)   coon shouter
  Cahill, Marie (b. 1870 d. 1933)   cast, composer
  Calvin, Henry (a. 1942)   singer, actor
  Cameron, Grace (b. 1879 a. 1899-1909)   singer
  Canova, Judy (b. 1916 d. 1983)   cast, hillbilly singer
  Cantor, Eddie (b. 1892 d. 1964)   cast, composer
  Carlisle, Kitty (b. 1914)   actress, cast
  Carmichael, Hoagy [Hoagland Howard] (b. 1899 d. 1981)   composer, cornet
  Carminati, Tullio (b. 1894 d. 1971)   cast, singer
  Carney, Art (b. 1918)   actor, cast
  Carpentier, Georges (b. 1894 a. 1927)   professional boxer, singer
  Carus, Emma (b. 1879 d. 1927)   cast, singer
  Case, Charley (b. 1858 d. 1916)   comedian
  Catlett, Walter (b. 1889 d. 1960)   actor, cast
  Cawthorne, Joseph (b. 1867 d. 1949)   actor, cast
  Chandler, Anna (b. 1887 d. 1957)   vaudeville entertainer
  Chaplin, Charlie [Charles Spencer] (b. 1889 d. 1977)   actor, composer
  Chase, Ilka (b. 1905)   actor, cast
  Cheatham, Kitty (b. 1864 d. 1945)   mezzo-soprano, author
  Chevalier, Albert Onesime Britannicus Gwathveoyd Louis (b. 1861 d. 1923)   comedian
  Chevalier, Maurice (b. 1889 d. 1972)   baritone, cast
  Clark, Buddy (b. 1912 d. 1949)   bass (instrument), bass
  Clark, Elsie (b. 1899 d. 1966)   dancer, vaudeville entertainer
  Clifford, Edith (a. 1926 active: 1927)   comedienne, songwriter
  Coghlan, Rose (b. 1850 d. 1932)   actress
  Cohan, George M. [George Michael] (b. 1878 d. 1942)   author, cast
  Collins, Jose (b. 1887 d. 1958)   singer, actress
  Collyer, Clayton "Bud" (b. 1908 d. 1969)   actor, TV gameshow host
  Colman, Ronald (b. 1891 d. 1958)   actor, speechnarr
  Colonna, Jerry [Gerard] (b. 1904)   cast, composer
  Columbo, Russ (b. 1908 d. 1934)   crooner, violin
  Como, Perry (b. 1912 a. 1943)   song stylist, vocals
  Connolly, Dolly (a. 1911-1917)   singer
  Coogan, Jackie (b. 1914 a. 1921)   actor
  Cook, Olga (a. 1922)   singer
  Cook, Phil (b. 1890 d. 1958)   singer
  Cooper, Jackie (b. 1923)   actor, TV producer
  Coslow, Sam (b. 1902 d. 1982)   composer, lyricist
  Costello, Billy (a. 1935-1939)   voice of 'Popeye', singer
  Coward, Noel (Pierce) (b. 1899 d. 1973)   actor, author
  Cowl, Jane (b. 1890 d. 1950)   actress, author
  Cowles, Eugene Chase (b. 1860 d. 1948)   actor, bass
  Cox, Ray (a. 1905-1915)   vaudeville entertainer
  Coyne, Joseph (b. 1867 d. 1941)   actor, cast
  Crafts, Charley (b. 1895 d. 1974)   vaudeville entertainer, vocals
  Crawford, Clifton (b. 1875 d. 1920)   cast, composer
  Crawford, Joan (b. 1904 d. 1977)   actress, singer
  Crosby, Bing (b. 1904 d. 1977)   singer
  Crosby, Dixie Lee (b. 1911 d. 1952)   singer, vocals
  Crumit, Frank (b. 1889 d. 1943)   cast, composer
  Daniels, Bebe [Virginia] (b. 1901 d. 1971)   actress, cast
  Daniels, Billy (b. 1915 d. 1988)   cast, entertainer
  Darrieux, Danielle (b. 1917)   cast, singer
  Davenport, Edgar L. (b. 1862 d. 1918)   actor
  Davis, Jessie Bartlett (b. 1860 d. 1905)   cast, singer
  Day, Edith (b. 1896 d. 1971)   cast, singer
  De Haven, Gloria (b. 1924 a. 1951)   star of Hollywood musicals, band singer
  De Leath, Vaughn (b. 1897 d. 1943)   radio crooner, vocals
  Del Rio, Dolores (b. 1905 d. 1983)   actress
  Delysia, Alice (b. 1889 d. 1979)   actress, cast
  Denny, Will F. (b. 1858 d. 1908 a. 1903)   singer, pioneer recording artist
  Deslys, Gaby (b. 1883 d. 1920)   cast, musical comedy star
  Desmond, Florence (b. 1907 d. 1993)   actress, cast
  Dickson, Dorothy (b. 1896)   actress, cast
  Dietrich, Marlene (b. 1901 d. 1992)   actress, soprano
  Dix, Tommy (a. 1941)   cast, singer
  Dockstader, Lew (b. 1853 d. 1924)   black-face minstrel, cast
  Downey, Morton (b. 1901 d. 1985)   cast, tenor
  Dragonette, Jessica (b. 1904 d. 1980)   radio soprano
  Dressler, Marie (b. 1869 d. 1934)   actress, cast
  Duncan, Rosetta (b. 1900 d. 1959)   cast, composer
  Duncan, Todd [Robert Todd] (b. 1903)   baritone, cast
  Duncan, Vivian (b. 1902)   cast, composer
  Dunn, James (b. 1905 d. 1967)   actor
  Dunne, Irene (b. 1904)   actress, cast
  Durante, Jimmy [James Francis] (b. 1893 d. 1980)   cast, composer
  Durbin, Deana (Edna Mae) (b. 1921 a. 1939)   soprano, vocals
  Eddy, Nelson (b. 1901 d. 1967)   baritone, vocals
  Edwards, Cliff [Clifton A.] (b. 1895 d. 1971)   cast, composer
  Edwards, Joan (b. 1919 d. 1981)   composer, jazz singer
  Eldridge, Press (b. 1854 d. 1925)   minstrel performer
  Ellis, Melville (b. 1878 d. 1917 a. 1899-1914)   vaudeville entertainer
  Emerson, Hope (b. 1897 d. 1960)   actress, cast
  Endor, Chick (b. 1894 d. 1941)   composer, lyricist
  Etting, Ruth (b. 1896 d. 1978)   cast, torch singer
  Evans, Edith (a. 1928-1930)   vaudeville entertainer
  Evans, Greek Harry (b. 1890 d. 1967)   baritone
  Evans, Maurice (b. 1901)   actor
  Fairbanks, Douglas (b. 1909)   actor, cast
  Farkoa, Maurice (b. 1864 d. 1916)   baritone, cast
  Farrell, Marguerite (b. 1888 d. 1951 a. 1916-1917)   vaudeville singer
  Fay, Frank (b. 1897 d. 1961)   cast, comedian
  Faye, Alice (b. 1912)   actress, cast
  Fields, Benny (b. 1894 d. 1959)   cast, clarinet
  Fields, Gracie (b. 1898 d. 1979)   singer, vocals
  Fields, W.C. (b. 1879 d. 1946)   actor, cast
  Fisher, Irving   cast, lyricist
  Flack, Nanette (b. 1889)   cast, star of Broadway musicals
  Flippen, Jay C. (b. 1898 d. 1971)   cast, vaudeville entertainer
  Fontanne, Lynn (b. 1887 d. 1983)   actress
  Foran, Dick (b. 1910 d. 1979)   singing cowboy, vocals
  Ford, Senator Edward (b. 1887 d. 1972)   vaudeville comedian
  Fox, Harry (b. 1882 d. 1959)   vaudeville entertainer, cabaret singer
  Franklin, Irene (b. 1876 d. 1941)   cast, entertainer
  Froman, Jane (b. 1907 d. 1980)   Broadway musical actress, cast
  Frothingham, George B. (b. 1844 d. 1920)   cast, minstrel performer
  Frye, Edward (a. 1912)   cast, vaudeville comedian
  Fyffe, Will (b. 1885 d. 1947)   cast, music hall artist
  Gallagher, Ed (b. 1872 d. 1929 a. 1910-1925)   cast, composer
  Gardiner, Reginald (b. 1903 d. 1980)   actor, cast
  Garland, Judy (b. 1922 d. 1969)   musicisti, singer
  Gielgud, John (b. 1904)   actor, encenador
  Gillham, Art (b. 1895 d. 1961)   piano, singer
  Gilpin, Charles Sidney (b. 1878 d. 1930)   actor, cast
  Gilson, Lottie (b. 1871 d. 1912)   singer
  Gobel, George (b. 1920)   child radio star
  Godfrey, Arthur (Michael) (b. 1903 d. 1983 a. 1947)   entertainer, radio announcer
  Goldberg, Rube (b. 1883 d. 1970)   vaudeville comedian
  Grafton, Gloria (a. 1930-1935)   cast, singer
  Gray, Alexander (b. 1902 a. 1920-1936)   entertainer
  Gray, Lawrence (b. 1898)   actor, cast
  Green, Eddie (b. 1901 d. 1950)   cast, composer
  Green, Jane (b. 1901 d. 1931 a. 1908-1916)   cast, vaudeville entertainer
  Greene, Gene (b. 1877 d. 1930)   singer
  Greenwood, Charlotte [Frances Charlotte] (b. 1893 d. 1978)   actress, cast
  Greet, Ben (b. 1857 d. 1936)   actor
  Groody, Louise (b. 1897 d. 1961)   cast, singer
  Guilbert, Yvette (b. 1865 d. 1944)   chanteur, composer
  Guizar, Tito (b. 1912)   tenor, vocals
  Gunning, Louise (b. 1878 d. 1960)   cast, singer
  Gwenn, Edmund (b. 1875)   actor, cast
  Hajos, Mitz [Marishka] (b. 1891)   cast, soprano
  Haley, Jack [John] (b. 1899 d. 1979)   cast, singer
  Hall, Adelaide (Louise) (b. 1895)   cast, jazz singer
  Hall, Wendell Woods (b. 1896 d. 1969)   ukelele, entertainer
  Hanshaw, Annette (b. 1910 d. 1985)   bandleader, vocals
  Harris, Marion (b. 1896 d. 1944 a. 1930s)   vaudeville entertainer, nightclub entertainer
  Harris, Phil (b. 1904)   bandleader
  Hart, William S. (b. 1869 d. 1946)   actor
  Harvey, Morton (b. 1886 d. 1961)   vaudeville entertainer
  Hayes, Grace (a. 1922)   singer
  Hayes, Helen (b. 1900)   actress
  Hayman, Joe (a. 1913-1928)   comedian
  Healy, Mary (b. 1917)   actress, cast
  Hearn, Lou (b. 1882)   actor, singer
  Herbert, Evelyn (b. 1898)   cast, singer
  Herman, Al (b. 1887 d. 1967)   cast, vaudeville entertainer
  Herz, Ralph C. (b. 1878 d. 1921)   cast, comedian
  Hildegarde (b. 1906 a. 1936-1944)   vaudeville entertainer, cabaret entertainer
  Hill, Murry K. (b. 1865 d. 1942)   vaudeville comedian
  Hillebrand, Fred (b. 1893 d. 1963)   cast, comedian
  Hilliard, Robert (Cochran) (b. 1857 d. 1927)   actor, dramatist
  Hitchcock, Raymond (b. 1865 d. 1929)   cast, librettist
  Holloway, Stanley (Augustus) (b. 1890 d. 1982)   actor, cast
  Holman, Libby (b. 1906 d. 1971)   cast, torch singer
  Holmes, Taylor (b. 1878 d. 1959)   actor, cast
  Holtz, Lou (b. 1898 d. 1980)   actor, cast
  Hope, Bob (b. 1903 a. 1927)   cast, entertainer
  Hopper, De Wolf (b. 1858 d. 1935)   comedian, Klavier
  Horne, Lena (b. 1917 a. 1943)   cast, singer
  Hortiz, Joseph (a. 1908)   yodeler, composer
  Howard, Joe [Joseph] E. (b. 1867 d. 1961)   composer, singer
  Howard, Leslie (b. 1893 d. 1943)   actor, piano
  Howard, Willie (b. 1886 d. 1949)   cast, lyricist
  Hunter, Eddie (b. 1888 d. 1974 a. 1923)   cast, composer
  Huston, Walter (b. 1884 d. 1950)   actor, cast
  Hutton, Betty (b. 1921 a. 1944)   actress, cast
  Irwin, May (b. 1862 d. 1938)   cast, comedienne
  Janis, Elsie (b. 1889 d. 1956)   cast, composer
  Jans, Harry (b. 1894 d. 1962 a. late)   cast, radio comedian
  Jason, Sybil (a. 1932)   singer, vocals
  Jean, Gloria (b. 1926)   teenage singing star, vocals
  Jefferson, Joseph (b. 1829 d. 1905)   actor
  Jemima, Aunt (b. 1898 d. 1950)   cast, vaudeville entertainer
  Jessel, George (b. 1898 d. 1981)   cast, composer
  Jolson, Al (b. >1886 d. 1950)   cast, composer
  Jones, Allan (b. 1907 d. 1992)   cast, tenor
  Jones, Walter (b. 1874 d. 1922)   singer
  Jordan, Julian (b. 1866 d. 1925)   composer
  Jose, Richard Juan (b. 1869 d. 1941)   counter tenor
  Kane, Helen (b. 1904 d. 1966)   cast, singer
  Kaye, Danny (b. 1913 d. 1987)   cast, singer
  Keller, Greta (b. 1905 d. 1977)   singer, vocals
  Kellogg, Charles (b. 1869 d. 1949)   bird imitator, whistler
  Kelly, Gene (b. 1912 d. 1996)   actor, cast
  Kelly, Walter C. (b. 1873 d. 1939)   vaudeville entertainer
  King, Charles (b. 1889 d. 1944)   singer
  King, Dennis (b. 1897 d. 1971)   baritone, cast
  Kusta, Tessa (b. 1893 d. 1981 a. 1926)   singer
  La Rue, Grace (b. 1882 d. 1956)   vaudeville entertainer
  Lamour, Dorothy (b. 1914 a. 1930s-1940s)   singer, vocals
  Lanchester, Elsa (b. 1902)   actress, cast
  Langford, Frances (b. 1913)   cast, singer
  Lashwood, George (b. 1862 d. 1942)   music hall artist
  Lauder, Harry (Maclennan) (b. 1870 d. 1950)   baritone, cast
  Laughton, Charles (b. 1899 d. 1962)   actor, reading
  Laurie, John (b. 1892 d. 1954)   vaudeville comedian
  Lawrence, Gertrude (b. 1901 d. 1952)   actress, cast
  Lee, Buddy   singer
  Lee, Davey (b. 1925)   child actor, singer
  Leonard, Eddie (b. 1875 d. 1941)   cast, composer
  Leoni, Henri (a. 1906)   musical comedy and cabaret entertainer
  Levey, Ethel (b. 1881 d. 1955)   actress, cast
  Lewis, Henry (a. 1916)   revue artist
  Lewis, Tom (b. 1864 d. 1927)   vaudeville raconteur
  Libbey, J. Aldrich (b. 1864 d. 1925)   vaudeville entertainer
  Lillie, Beatrice Gladys (b. 1894 d. 1989)   actress, cast
  Lloyd, Alice (b. 1873 d. 1949 a. 1888)   vaudeville entertainer, singer
  Loftus, Cissie [Cecilia] (b. 1876 d. 1943)   cast, composer
  Logan, Ella (b. 1913 d. 1969)   cast, musical comedy star
  Lorraine, Lilian (b. 1892 d. 1955)   actress, singer
  Lucas, Nick (b. 1897 d. 1982)   banjo, cast
  Lyon, Ben (b. 1901 d. 1979)   actor, cast
  Macdonald, Christie (b. 1875 d. 1962)   cast, singer
  Macdonald, Jeannette (Anna) (b. 1907 d. 1965)   cast, soprano
  Macfarlane, George (b. 1877 d. 1932)   baritone, actor
  MacMurray, Fred (b. 1908)   clarinet, movie star
  Maddux, Frances (b. 1908)   cast, piano
  Mann, Louis (b. 1865 d. 1931)   actor, dramatist
  Marlowe, Julia (b. 1865)   actress
  Marsh, Howard (Warren) (d. 1969)   actor, singer
  Marshall, Everett (b. 1901 d. 1944)   baritone, cast
  Marshall, Henry I. (b. 1883 d. 1958)   composer, lyricist
  Marshall, Herbert (b. 1890 d. 1966)   actor, speech
  Martin, Mary (Virginia) (b. 1913 d. 1990)   actress, cast
  Martin, Tony (b. 1912)   baritone sax, singer
  Marvin, Johnny (b. 1897 d. 1944)   band singer, cast
  Mason, Shirley (b. 1900 d. 1979)   silent movie star
  Massey, Raymond (b. 1896 d. 1983)   actor, reading
  Matthews, Jessie (b. 1907 d. 1981)   cast, musician
  Maude, Cyril (b. 1862)   actor
  May, Edna (b. 1878 d. 1948)   actress, cast
  Mayhew, Stella (b. 1874 d. 1934)   cast, comedienne
  McCool, James (d. 1936 a. 1900-1910)   minstrel balladeer
  McKinley, Mabel (d. 1937)   singer
  McNaughton, Tom (b. 1867 d. 1923)   cast, comedian
  Meller, Raquel (b. 1888 d. 1962)   interprete, libretista
  Melton, James (b. 1904 d. 1961)   clarinet, tenor
  Menjou, Adolphe (b. 1890 d. 1963)   actor, singer
  Mercer, Johnny [John Herndon] (b. 1909 d. 1976)   lyricist, composer
  Merman, Ethel (b. 1908 d. 1984)   cast, singer
  Miller, Marilyn (b. 1898 d. 1936)   cast, producer
  Miller, Polk (b. 1844 d. 1913 a. 1909)   banjo, singer
  Mills, Florence (b. 1895 d. 1927)   cast, entertainer
  Miranda, Carmen (b. 1909 d. 1955)   cast, singer
  Miron, Joseph C. (b. 1862 d. 1918)   cast, musical comedy singer
  Mistinguett (b. 1875 d. 1956)   cabaret and vaudeville dancer and singer
  Montgomery, Dave [David Craig] (b. 1870 d. 1917)   actor
  Moore, Florence (b. 1886 d. 1933)   singer
  Moore, Grace (b. 1901 d. 1947)   soprano
  Morgan, Helen (b. 1900 d. 1941)   cast, torch singer
  Morris, Elida (b. 1886 d. 1977 a. 1910-1915)   coon shouter
  Morrison, Joe (b. 1908 a. 1935)   tenor, trumpet
  Morse, Lee (b. 1900 d. 1954)   singer, vocals
  Morton, Eddie (b. 1870 d. 1938 a. 1907-1916)   vaudeville comedian
  Moss, Arthur G. (d. 1932 a. 1912)   vaudeville comedian
  Muni, Paul (b. 1897 d. 1967)   actor, cast
  Murray, Elizabeth (b. 1870 d. 1946)   coon shouter
  Murray, J. Harold (b. 1891 d. 1940)   baritone, cast
  Murray, Ken (b. 1907 a. 1936)   comedy actor
  Murray, Pete (b. 1875 d. 1940)   vaudeville comedian
  Murray, Wyn (a. 1937)   singer
  Naudain, May (b. 1880 d. 1923)   cast, singer
  Nazarro, Clifford [Cliff] (b. 1904 d. 1961)   singer, vocals
  Neagle, Anna [Florence Marjorie] (b. 1904 d. 1986)   actress, vocals
  Negri, Pola (b. 1894 d. 1987)   singer, actress
  Nielsen, Alice (b. 1876 d. 1943)   cast, soprano
  Niesen, Gertrude (b. 1910 d. 1975)   cast, singer
  North, Olive (b. 1885 a. 1916)   vaudeville entertainer
  Norton, Ruby   cast, character-actress
  Norworth, Jack (b. 1879 d. 1959)   cast, composer
  Novarro, Ramon (b. 1899 d. 1969)   actor, singer
  Novis, Donald (b. 1906 d. 1966)   cast, tenor
  O'Brien, Virginia (b. 1921 a. 1940s)   cast, singer
  O'Connor, George (b. 1874 d. 1946 a. 1890s)   minstrel-show comedian
  O'Hara, Geoffrey (b. 1882 d. 1967)   composer, lyricist
  O'Keefe, Walter Michael (b. 1900 d. 1983)   vaudeville entertainer, actor
  O'Malley, Pat   monologues, singer
  O'Neal, William (a. 1924)   cast, singer
  O'Neal, Zelma (b. 1907)   actress, cast
  Oakie, Jack (b. 1903 d. 1978)   movie comedian
  Oakland, Will (b. 1880 d. 1956)   cast, counter tenor
  Olcott, Chauncey (b. 1858)   cast, composer
  Orsay, Fifi (b. 1904 d. 1983)   cast, vaudeville entertainer
  Painter, Eleanor (b. 1886 d. 1947)   cast, operetta star
  Palmer, Bee (b. 1898)   cast, vaudeville entertainer
  Palmer, Lilli (b. 1914)   actress, singer
  Patricola, Isabelle (b. 1886 d. 1965 a. 1924)   vaudeville entertainer
  Peacock, Bertram (b. 1883 d. 1963)   cast, vaudeville entertainer
  Peerce, Jan (b. 1904 d. 1984)   cast, Soloist: Gesang
  Petrova, Olga (b. 1886 a. 1911-1925)   vaudeville entertainer, singer
  Picon, Molly (b. 1898)   singer, actress
  Pidgeon, Walter (b. 1897)   baritone, cast
  Pollock, Frank (a. 1913)   singer, actor
  Ponce, Dorothea (a. 1925)   vaudeville entertainer, vocals
  Ponce, Ethel (b. 1910)   composer, vaudeville entertainer
  Powell, Dick [Richard Ewing] (b. 1904 d. 1963)   banjo, cast
  Powell, Eleanor (Torrey) (b. 1912 d. 1982)   cast, lap dancing
  Power, Tyrone (b. 1914)   actor
  Power, Tyrone (b. 1869 d. 1931)   actor, cast
  Powers, Tom (b. 1890)   cast, piano
  Price, George E. (b. 1900 d. 1964)   singer, comedian
  Questal, Mae (b. 1910)   cast, singer
  Rainer, Luise (b. 1912)   actor
  Rathbone, Basil (b. 1892 d. 1967)   actor, cast
  Raye, Martha (b. 1916)   cast, comedian
  Raymond, Gene (b. 1908 a. 1913)   composer, actor
  Raymond, Maud (b. 1871 d. 1961 a. 1908)   coon shouter
  Reed, Alan (b. 1907 d. 1977)   comedy actor
  Regan, Phil (b. 1906)   tenor, actor
  Rhodes, Betty Jane (b. 1921 d. 1987)   cabaret singer
  Richman, Harry (b. 1895 d. 1972)   cast, composer
  Riggs, Tommy (b. 1910 d. 1967)   singer
  Ring, Blanche (b. 1877 d. 1961)   actress, cast
  Roberti, Lyda (b. 1909 d. 1938)   cast, singer
  Robeson, Paul (b. 1898 d. 1976)   bass-baritone, cast
  Robinson, Bill [Luther] (b. 1878 d. 1949)   baritone saxophone, cast
  Rogers, Buddy [Charles] (b. 1904)   bandleader, cast
  Rogers, Ginger (b. 1911)   cast, singer
  Rogers, Will [William Penn Adair] (b. 1879 d. 1935)   cast, humorist
  Romain, Manuel (b. 1872 d. 1926 a. 1909-1916)   tenor ballad singer
  Romaine, Margaret (b. 1892)   cast, singer
  Rose, Julian (b. 1869 d. 1935 a. 1917-1932)   music hall artist
  Ross, Lanny [Lancelot Patrick] (b. 1906)   tenor, vocals
  Ross, Shirley (b. 1909 d. 1975)   cast, singer
  Roth, Lillian (b. 1911 d. 1980)   cast, composer
  Rowland, Adele (b. 1883 d. 1971 a. 1904-1922)   vaudeville entertainer
  Roye, Ruth (b. 1895 d. 1960)   singer
  Rubenstein, Ruth (a. 1937)   comedienne
  Rubin, Benny (b. 1899)   cast, choreographer
  Rugel, Yvette (b. 1899)   singer
  Russell, Lillian (b. 1861 d. 1922)   actress, cast
  Sablon, Jean (b. 1906 a. 1930s-1940s)   cast, interprete
  Sabu (b. 1924 d. 1963)   actor
  Sadler, Josie (a. 1907-1909)   vaudeville entertainer
  Sale, Charles "Chic" (b. 1885 d. 1936)   vaudeville monologist
  Sanderson, Julia (b. 1887 d. 1975)   Broadway musical comedy star, cast
  Sanford, Jere (a. 1910)   yodeler, whistler
  Santley, Joseph (b. 1890 d. 1971)   actor, author
  Santrey, Henry (a. 1910-1914)   vaudeville entertainer
  Sawyer, Ivy (b. 1896 a. 1916)   cast, singer
  Schenck, Joe (b. 1891 d. 1930)   cast, comedian
  Seabrooke, Thomas Q. (b. 1860 d. 1913)   actor, cast
  Seeley, Blossom (b. 1891 d. 1974)   cast, entertainer
  Shattuck, Truly (b. 1876)   actress, cast
  Shaw, Alice J. (b. 1856 d. 1918)   whistler
  Shaw, Oscar (b. 1891 d. 1967 a. 1908-1941)   actor, singer
  Shaw, Wini [Winifred] (b. 1900 d. 1982)   torch singer
  Shean, Al (b. 1868 d. 1949)   cast, composer
  Shearer, Norma (b. 1904 d. 1983)   actress
  Shore, Dinah [Frances Rose] (b. 1917 d. 1994)   jazz singer, vocals
  Shutta, Ethel (b. 1897 d. 1976)   cast, singer
  Sinatra, Frank [Francis Albert] (b. 1915)   cast, singer
  Singing' Sam (a. 1916-1933)   pioneer radio performer
  Skinner, Cornelia Otis (b. 1902 d. 1979)   actress, cast
  Smith, Jack "The Whispering Baritone" (b. 1899 d. 1951)   baritone
  Smith, Kate [Katheryn Elizabeth] (b. 1909 d. 1986)   cast, harp
  Sothern, E.H. [Edwin Hugh] (b. 1859 d. 1933)   actor
  Southe, Paul (b. 1888 d. 1946)   vaudeville entertainer
  Stanley, Aileen (b. 1897 d. 1982)   cast, singer
  Steck, Olga (a. 1923-1925)   singing actress
  Steel, John (b. 1900 d. 1971)   cast, tenor
  Sten, Anna (a. 1933)   film actress
  Stevenson, Douglas (b. 1882 d. 1934)   cast, guitar
  Stratton, Eugene (b. 1861 d. 1918)   music hall artist
  Swanson, Gloria (b. 1898 d. 1983)   actress
  Swarthout, Gladys (b. 1904 d. 1969)   contralto, mezzo-soprano
  Sylva, Marguerite (b. 1875 d. 1957)   cast, soprano
  Tally, Harry (b. 1866 d. 1939)   singer
  Tanguay, Eva (b. 1878 d. 1947)   cast, singer
  Tannen, Julius (b. 1881 d. 1965)   cast, monologist
  Tascott (a. 1905)   vaudeville comedian
  Tate, Beth (b. 1890 a. 1911-1915)   cast, music hall artist
  Templeton, Alec Andrew (b. 1910 d. 1963)   composer, piano
  Terry, Ellen (Alice) (b. 1848 d. 1928)   actress
  Thomas, John Charles (b. 1891 d. 1960)   baritone, vocals
  Thompson, Kay (b. 1913)   composer, author
  Thomson, Carolyn (a. 1925)   cast, singer
  Tibbett, Lawrence Mervil (b. 1896 d. 1960)   baritone, cast
  Tilley, Vesta (b. 1864 d. 1952)   cast, music hall artist
  Tinney, Frank (b. 1878 d. 1940)   cast, comedian
  Tobin, Stella (a. 1907-1909)   coon shouter
  Todd, Dick [Richard James] (b. 1914 d. 1975 a. 1938)   baritone, vocals
  Todd, Thelma (b. 1908 d. 1935 a. 1929)   humorous actress, singer
  Tomlin, Pinky [Truman] (b. 1908 d. 1987)   composer, lyricist
  Tone, Franchot (b. 1906)   actor, cast
  Tracy, Arthur (b. 1903)   ballad singer, cast
  Tucker, Sophie (b. 1884 d. 1966)   actress, cast
  Valentino, Rudolph (b. 1895 d. 1926)   actor
  Van, Billy B. (b. 1880 d. 1952)   banjo, cast
  Van Patten, Dick (b. 1928)   child actor
  Vance, Clarice (b. 1875 d. 1961)   dancer, singer
  Veidt, Conrad (b. 1894 d. 1943)   actor
  Velez, Lupe (b. 1909 d. 1944)   movie actress
  Victoria, Vesta (b. 1873 d. 1951)   comedienne, music hall artist
  Von Zell, Harry (b. 1906 d. 1981)   radio announcer, actor
  Walker, Esther   vaudeville comedian, vocals
  Walker, Nancy (b. 1922)   actress, cast
  Walsh, Mary Jane (b. 1918)   singer
  Webb, Clifton (b. 1891 d. 1966)   actor, cast
  Weber, Joe [Morris] (b. 1867 d. 1942)   actor, producer
  Weitz, Millie (a. 1937)   actress, cast
  Welch, Elisabeth (b. 1908)   cast, singer
  Welles, Orson [George] (b. 1915)   actor, cast
  West, Mae (b. 1892 d. 1980)   actress, author
  Weston, Willie (a. 1917)   vaudeville entertainer
  Whalen, Harold (b. 1898 d. 1940 a. late)   cast, radio comedian
  Wheaton, Anna (b. 1896 d. 1961)   cast, musical comedy and revue actress
  White, Frances (b. 1898 d. 1969)   vaudeville entertainer, singer
  White, Lee (b. 1886 d. 1927)   singer
  Whitehouse, Fred (b. 1895 d. 1954)   vaudeville singer
  Whiting, Jack (b. 1901 d. 1961)   singer, dancer
  Wilder, Marshall Pinckney (b. 1859 d. 1915)   raconteur, vaudeville comedian
  Williams, Bert (b. 1874 d. 1922)   cast, comedian
  Williams, Frances (b. 1903 d. 1959)   songstress
  Wills, Nat M. (b. 1873 d. 1917)   cast, singer
  Wilson, Al H. (b. 1868)   singing comedian
  Wood, Peggy (b. 1892 d. 1978)   cast, singer
  Wynn, Bessie (b. 1876 d. 1968 a. 1897-1912)   cast, entertainer
  Wynn, Ed (b. 1886 d. 1966)   cast, composer
  Young, Margaret (b. 1900 d. 1969)   entertainer

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