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Music Hall Songs, Singers and Song-writers, and the enduring ...  Music Hall was a form of entertainment in Britain, similar to Vaudeville in America ... Before long dedicated Music Halls were built with a stage at one end, but ... the song Pop Goes the Weasel whose lyrics mention "In and Out of the Eagle". ..... was a male impersonator who started performing in male clothes at the age of 5.
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Charlie Chaplin : Overview of His Life  Charlie was thrown on his own resources before he reached the age of ten... ... and his mother, known under the stage name of Lily Harley, was an attractive ... Charlie started a career as a comedian in vaudeville, which eventually took him to ... with his characterization in a sketch entitled "A Night in an English Music Hall".
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Charlie Chaplin - Wikipedia  Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889  25 December 1977) was an ... Chaplin began performing at an early age, touring music halls and later ... Chaplin directed his own films from an early stage, and continued to hone his ... At the time of his birth, Chaplin's parents were both music hall entertainers.
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Music hall - Wikipedia  Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian ... British music hall was similar to American vaudeville, featuring rousing ... it was here that Marie Lloyd made her dbut at the age of 14 in 1884. ... Pop goes the weasel. .... Charles Stuart and A. J. Park The Variety Stage (1895).
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Charlie Chaplin - Comedian - Biography.com  Feb 25, 2015 ... Charlie Chaplin was a comedic British actor who became one of the biggest ... 4:11) Charlie Chaplin began acting on stage at the age of 13. ... a vaudevillian and music hall singer who went by the stage name Lily Harley.
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Charlie Chaplin - Comedian - Biography.com  Feb 25, 2015 ... Iconic actor Charlie Chaplin was known for his lovable tramp figure from vintage ... Famous for his character "The Tramp," the sweet little man with a ... and his older half-brother, Sydney, not long after Chaplin's birth. ... a movie Chaplin would later say he wanted to be remembered by, and The Circus (1928).
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THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN VAUDEVILLE FROM 1800 TO 1850 A ...  Dec 15, 2001 ... order not to miss a favorite actor in a new vaudeville; in these shows beautiful ..... Versified Comedy of the End of the XVIII - Beginning of the XIX Century ...... Fonvizin (1745-1792),  (The Brigadier, 1769), a satire on ...... of The School for Scandal by R. B. Sheridan (1751-1816), though, like many.
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8.2 The History of Movies | Understanding Media and Culture: An ...  The movie industry as we know it today originated in the early 19th century .... so vaudeville halls advertised the kind of projector they were using (for example The ... because of their 5 cent admission charge, these early motion picture theaters, ... Fox (later 20th Century Fox), and Paramount (the later version of the Lasky...
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Vaudeville and Burlesque Lingo  In France in the 1400s, music was evolving and its forms were being codified. ... During the late 1600s and early 1700s, "comdies-vaudeville", shows which set new lyrics ... The Thtre de Vaudeville opened in Paris in 1792, and the word vaudeville ..... But if television was kind to comedians and singers, it was the special...
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Charlie Chaplin : Chaplin at Keystone: The Tramp is Born  A year at that racket and I could return to vaudeville an international star, he had ... Irish Canadian-born Sennett worked as a boilermaker before failing as an actor in ... Despite Chaplin's low opinion of the film, Making a Living was well-received ... not only because it represents the first appearance of the Tramp on screen,...
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Vaudeville - Wikipedia  Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment. It was especially popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. A typical vaudeville performance is made up of a series of separate, ... With its first subtle appearances within the early 1860s, vaudeville was not initially a common...
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slapstick | comedy | Britannica.com  A type of physical comedy characterized by broad humour, absurd situations, and ... been a key attraction of slapstick comedy, and, fittingly, the form took its name from one of ... Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops ... and the Three Stooges, whose stage careers predated their films and whose...
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Leslie Caron: Dancing From WWII Paris To Hollywood | WUNC  Nov 29, 2012 ... Caron trained with the Conservatoire de Paris before joining Petit's .... In "Gigi," Leslie Caron played an adorable young girl in 1900s Paris; the age ... STAMBERG: When she played Gigi, in 1958, Leslie Caron was a big star.
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Vaudeville | About Vaudeville | American Masters | PBS  Oct 8, 1999 ... Some of the most famous vaudeville performers began at an early age. ... In time, theaters began to show films, and the few vaudevillians left ... Ironically, it is through the movie and TV industry that vaudeville eventually left its greatest mark. ... Many of the big names in vaudeville went on to be movie and TV...
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Vaudeville - Wikipedia  Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment. It was especially popular in the United ... The form gradually evolved from the concert saloon and variety hall into its ... Vaudeville was characterized by traveling companies touring through cities and ... He goes like a cyclone. ... The question "Will it play in Peoria?
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Life? It's A Circus! Teacher Resource Pack (Primary)  Development). Style/Form: Circus Theatre Physical Theatre Mime Clowning ... all circus rings. By 1770, Astley had developed a considerable reputation as a performer. ... American circus emerged - the traveling tent-show with a menagerie of exotic animals run ... features, and are sometimes called hobo or tramp clowns.
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The Tramp - Wikipedia  The Tramp (Charlot in several languages), also known as The Little Tramp, was British actor Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character and an icon...
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My Love Of Old Hollywood: Sir Charles "Charlie" Chaplin (1889-1977)  Dec 19, 2010 ... He traveled around England and the United States in vaudeville and ... touring and they even shared a boarding house room at one time. ... most likely because he was newly married to the child star Lita Grey ... After "Modern Times" Charlie did not film anything until 1940 which .... He was Knighted in 1975.
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Charlie Chaplin : Films  Further, Chaplin's comic bout with Sterling (in his last film with Chaplin) suggests some ... less than any of the other great star comediansRoscoe Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and Harry Langdonof the entire silent-film era. ..... with the films A Night in the Show (1915), A Dog's Life (1918), and Limelight (1952).
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Charlie Chaplin - Wikipedia  Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889  25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film. Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his screen persona "the Tramp" .... He was briefly reunited with his mother 18 months later, before Hannah was...
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Chaplin at Keystone Studios - TCM.com  Classic comedy shorts capture Charles Chaplin's first year in film and the creation of ... troupe in 1910, where he was spotted by Keystone head Mack Sennett. Chaplin made 35 films for Keystone in 1914 before moving on to Essanay Studios.