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Amy Busby
Amy Busby (January 19, 1872 – July 13, 1957) was an American actress. Early life Amy Busby was born in Rochester, New York, the daughter of Thomas Mark Busby and Eliza Ann Bennett Busby. Career Amy Busby went to New York City as a teenager, hoping for a career on the stage. Described as "a vastly pretty woman", she was a protegee of actress Helen Barry for a time, and later was engaged by Stuart Robson (actor), Stuart Robson and William H. Crane for their companies. She appeared in ''London Assurance'', ''Victor Durand'', ''The Pembertons'', ''The Henrietta'', ''She Stoops to Conquer'', ''Is Marriage a Failure?'' ''The American Minister'', ''On Probation'', ''Brother John'', ''For Money'', ''The Senator'', and ''Arms and the Man''. Busby's Broadway credits included ''The Fatal Card'' (1894), ''Madame'' (1896), ''The Law of the Land'' (1896), and ''Secret Service'' (1896). Theatrical producer William Berkeley Enos took the professional name "Busby Berkeley" from Amy Busby, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rochester, New York
Rochester () is a City (New York), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, the county seat, seat of Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, and Yonkers, New York, Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located in Western New York, the city of Rochester forms the core of a larger Rochester metropolitan area, New York, metropolitan area with a population of 1 million people, across six counties. The city was one of the United States' first boomtowns, initially due to the fertile Genesee River Valley, which gave rise to numerous flour mills, and then as a manufacturing center, which spurred further rapid population growth. Rochester rose to prominence as the birthplace and home of some of America's most iconic companies, in particular Eastman Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb (along with Wegmans, Gannett, Paychex, Western Union, French's, Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
