If anyone's interested in what it was like to be a vaudeville actor, you might enjoy reading Fred Allen's book Much Ado About Me. It's his autobiography and has bits where he describes life on the vaudeville circuit in great detail.

@robertschwartz4810

2 жыл бұрын

Also, Gypsy Rose Lee's autobiography, "Gypsy".

@juliereminiec4937

Жыл бұрын

@@robertschwartz4810 Gypsy was about Burlesque ,not Vaudeville Unless you're referring to Uncle Jocko's Kiddie show

@robertschwartz4810

Жыл бұрын

@@juliereminiec4937 The books and the musical were about the childhoods of the two Hovich girls growing up in the world of vaudeville. The burlesque part came near the end of the story after vaudeville had died.

@sciencedavedunning3415

Жыл бұрын

Harpo's memoirs " Harpo Speaks " is also a "must read" for fans of Vaudeville lore. One of the funniest books on any shelf !

I'm interested in the history of vaudeville, more than broadway's, due to the fact that many of the talent ended up doing comedy films. My city has a theater that was originally built for vaudeville, but today is not exclusively used for plays. W.C. Fields once visited my city! Since most vaudeville was never filmed we will never be able to see Gracie Allen as the straight woman before she switched roles with George Burns.

The vaudeville era was a time that we will never really have again, although it still exists in some form on TV talent shows such as "America's Got Talent." Except that vaudeville performers weren't competing for prize money; it was what they did for a living. Sadly, there have probably been many great acts that are totally forgotten now because they were never filmed, and the people who would have remembered seeing them have passed on now. All we have left of this fascinating time in history are some photos and advertisements for the shows!

Vaudeville is alive and well in every comedian who performs one liners many learned from the masters and still perform the famous one liners today. Vaudeville has merely transitioned rather than disappeared entirely, though I would love to see a comeback in local theater as a way to honor Vaudeville as our great grandparents would have seen on stage. In every rural community you can still see a grand theater where live performances are still being shown today some buildings dating back to 1860 or earlier.

I worked at a nursing home we had a woman who was on the stage and still knew all her songs she had been a Flora Dora girl 💕💕

@gloriahanes5338

3 жыл бұрын

Flora Dora was also a bisque doll made in the late 1800's more than likely after the Flora Dora girls who performed on stage.

Vaudeville began its slow decline as soon as filmmakers began making multi-reel features with fascinating plots. When the movies started to talk (1926), the last big advantage of live over filmed live entertainment was lost. It is not true, however, that few vaudeville acts were ever filmed. When Warner Bros. started making talking pictures, it filmed hundreds of vaudeville acts just as they had been performed on stage. Sadly, many of these films are now missing either their visuals or their sound (which was recorded on a separate disk, not on the film itself) or both. The "Vitaphone Project" has restored many of the films where recovery was possible.

@gloriahanes5338

3 жыл бұрын

A few of these multi-reels are in private collections and until their release will not be available to the public.

@juliereminiec4937

Жыл бұрын

David, The Jazz singer ( a film that was 3/4 silent ) was touted as the first sound film / talkie. That was back in 1927 ,not 1926

@davidllightner171

Жыл бұрын

@@juliereminiec4937 The Jazz Singer was certainly not the first talkie. Warner Bros. began releasing one-reel short subjects (including one featuring Al Jolson) using its Vitaphone sound-on-disk system in 1926. Even years before that, there were movies with sound using various experimental processes. Vitaphone was just the first system to become commercially successful.

The concept of vaudeville - short performances only a few minutes long - lives on in a certain way - with performers on KZread. Yes it is sad that so little of vaudeville performances were filmed,.. Any popular entertainment aficionados would do well to study and appreciate vaudeville - and its audience interaction. ...Rowby

@ShadowWizard123

2 жыл бұрын

I would also say vaudeville lived on in professional wrestling. Especially the concept of hiring acts and building a "card" of acts that will make up the show for the night. But then vaudeville and wrestling both share a common root in the circus.

@teijaflink2226

2 жыл бұрын

Some of television like some talkshows as example with different guests and acts reminds of vaudeville too.

@radicalross7700

2 жыл бұрын

One could say that, while vaudeville no longer exists as it was in its heyday, it had kids (TV variety shows of the 1950s - 1970s) grandkids (sketch comedy like SNL), and great grandkids (example: America's Got Talent). Live performances didn't begin with vaudeville and didn't end with vaudeville.

In UK they had the Music Hall, upmarket compared to Vaudeville. Created true international stars that would cross the Atlantic to perform in the States.

I've always been so fascinated by vaudeville because its so unique to its time. I really like this video and the history you go into. Definitely had to subscribe! 😁🤗

@The1920sChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support and welcome aboard!

@teijaflink2226

2 жыл бұрын

And the huge influence it has had on entertainment even it's gone now.

I love this channel

First of all, I like your show a lot. A few comments on this one. What Vaudeville could not fight was the sound motion picture, or "The Talkie.". On the circuits you never met the same audience twice; with motion pictures, your act was seen by 50 million people and you couldn't go anywhere. The film played--but you didn't. Also Vaudeville was "family" entertainment. It was policied. E.F.Albee and other controllers were fanatics for clean shows. Burlesque was heavily censored and Albee would blackball you if you had any involvement in it. By the time of The Twenties so many people had not only seen the acts, but knew them because in Vaudeville you "perfected" the same old act.

Love the videos! Thank you!

Great channel and great music. Love it.

In addition to talkies killing vaudeville, radio finally did it in, for the most part. Benny, B&A, Cantor, et al moved to radio. But that had a disadvantage. As George Burns said, "In vaudeville you perfected your act over time. On radio it was one and done". (Not an exact quote, but close). Fred Allen once quipped about early tv (Berle, etc) "Vaudeville didn't die, it went to television" with all the variety shows and shows like Ed Sullivan who had the closest thing to a vaudeville show: host/MC, various acts, etc. Well, that's my opinion.

British variety was very popular I went to the Moss Empire theatre in Finsbury Park in London in the 1950s and also The Empire in Edinburgh . Also I myself was part of a variety act that performed in The Churchill Theatre Edinburgh as late as 1972.

This is well done! Good review.

Hi. Thanks......enjoyed your video clip! My great Aunt and Uncle were in Vaudville. They had a great life. Susan W.

i appreciate the respectful tone of this presentation, but one little thing: the photo at 2:40 you use to illustrate burlesque, is actually a movie still of Clara Bow from the 1930s.

@hcombs0104

2 жыл бұрын

I knew that picture looked familiar! It was her last movie, called Hoop-la, from 1933.

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Great video.

Very cool program short and sweet thank you

Good topic!!

I recently watched Natalie Wood's version of "Gypsy", and the fall of vaudeville was mentioned a few times so i was interested in the history and the decline. Your video is just was i was looking for!

My Great-Great Grandparents were Charles Wimsatt and Genevieve Sullivan (aka Miss Vera DeFord). They left my great grandmother at a boarding house when they moved on from Rorick’s Glen in Elmira, NY. She waited in the house for the rest of her life waiting for them to return. They never did. I am still researching to find out what happened to them.

What is the name of the song that's playing in the video in your video

@The1920sChannel

3 жыл бұрын

1st song: "The Japanese Sandman" by Paul Whiteman 2nd song: "The Song Is Ended" by Annette Hanshaw 3rd song: "Seven and Eleven" by The Corona Dance Orchestra

@cynicalandrealistic2678

3 жыл бұрын

@@The1920sChannel okay Thanks

@sonicsix569

3 жыл бұрын

@@The1920sChannel thanks i was really wondering what the second one was

You music selections are blowing my mind! Do you have these records or something??

Good and informing presentation. Everything is accurate. This is entertaining. One cardinal sin... where there is narration, music is great, but not when there is a singer. It really throws off the focus.

it's like America got talent

Television variety shows in the 40s to it's waning days in the 70s were essentially vaudeville shows. The show which was most nearly a vaudeville show was The Hollywood Palace from the 1960s. Many episodes of HP can be seen on KZread!

Enjoyed it

Well said

If you watch the KZread 1 1/2 hr BBC video on the British Musica Halls you will see the roots for vaudeville, and you will learn the logic of their existence. The narrators honestly understand completely both the musical hall experience and how it evolved into vaudeville. and beyond.

Vaudeville did not die. It's influence can still be seen in benign ethnic humor " Laugh at me, I'm black, or Jewish, or whatever, but you wouldn't be laughing if you didn't understand me" . Also shows like Ed Sullivan can still be seen on Decades TV channel featuring many unique specialty acts. Performances like Mummenchance, Blue Man Group, and Penn and Teller admit to being heavily influenced by Vaudeville. Classic Warner Bros Loony Tunes were inspired by those great times. The only thing that has truly changed are the venues. The theaters became movie houses, then television, and now KZread. Thank you 1920s Channel for bringing it all back again for yet another generation to discover and enjoy !

We should talk about burlesque as well

I think the ed Sullivan show is another example of Vaudeville’s impact on television because while it had a host it had music, comedy, and novelty acts on a schedule like you could see Elvis playing one of his songs, then a comedy act or comedian, later a novelty act. Then there was the 1975 movie “The Sunshine Boys” which is about an old vaudeville actor trying to make it more than 40 years after vaudeville died and having to reunite with his old partner, which he hates, to land a big ABC role in a new documentary on the history of theatre.

Credit the pictures, please. Where did you find them? Are there more?

Jack Benny!!! Burns & Allen!!! Eddie Caantor!!! Marx Bros.!!! ...

Before music festivals, the rave scene, etc, people went to vaudeville shows

The image at 2:48 is not a vaudeville poster.

VOD ville?

I would like to know about The Ed Sullivan Show. When its run ended, someone said it was the second death of Vaudeville.

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Broadway is the current vaudeville

Let's not forget both Lillian Russell ( early Vaudeville) & Marilyn Miller ( Zeigfeld & musicals / Sally )...

That sounds like the adorable Annette Hanshaw singjng at about 4:15 .. it?

@The1920sChannel

2 жыл бұрын

It is indeed!

Where's that lady from Britain's got Talent..Kelly Force I think. Kiss it song...

The old Ed Sullivan show would seem to be the same format with unique specialty acts.

Ok but I'm creating the new vaudeville 😈

@Bigbadwhitecracker

3 жыл бұрын

With or without masks?

ok.

Vaudeville continued into the late 1930s

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I had family in vaudeville. Anyone ever heard of Hadj Lessik, an arab gun spinner?? he was know as Kissell or with Frank and Anita? late 1800s

Except for the singers, America's Got Talent reminds me of Vaudeville.

@emilymalden3310

2 жыл бұрын

I never thought about it, but you are on point about that.

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Don't get it. Sure glad I wasn't cursed with the need to perform.

LETS NOT FORGET THE FANTASTIC ABBOTT AND COSTELLO. NEAL SIMON. THE SUNSHINE BOYS GREAT TRIBUTE TO VAUDVILLE GEORGE BURNS. WALTER MATTHAU. EVANGELIST ROGER MANSOUR

@sciencedavedunning3415

Жыл бұрын

Abbot and Costello actually came from up from the Burlesque theaters, more for the "sporting life " segment of the population. Vaudeville was "family entertainment " Other performers from the Burlesque school include Bert Lahr, Phil Silvers, Jimmy Durante, and Leonard Barr.

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@strugglingcollegestudent

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah

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ALOT OF WOODY ALLEN FILMS DO HONOR TO VAUDVILLE.MOVIES BROADWAY DANNY ROSE RADIO DAYS EVANGELIST ROGER MANSOUR