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Grace Hayes
Grace Hayes (August 3, 1895 – February 1, 1989) was an American actress, singer, vaudeville entertainer and nightclub owner. Hayes owned the Grace Hayes Lodge in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California, and later the Las Vegas nightclub, the Red Rooster which she renamed the Grace Hayes Lodge, that was frequented by Howard Hughes and Bugsy Siegel. She is the mother of Peter Lind Hayes and mother-in-law to Mary Healy. She appeared in ''Zis Boom Bah ''Zis Boom Bah'', also known as ''College Sweethearts'', is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by William Nigh, and starring Grace Hayes, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy. The plot concerns a vaudeville singer who comes to a flounderin ...'' (1941) in which she played herself, her son and daughter-in-law also appeared in the film; as well as other films. Hayes also appeared on Broadway. Early life Hayes was born in Springfield, Missouri, but moved to California when she was ten years old. She married Jos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lind Hayes
Peter Lind Hayes (born Joseph Conrad Lind Jr.; June 25, 1915 – April 21, 1998) was an American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter, and film and television actor. Early life Hayes was born in San Francisco, the son of Joseph Conrad Lind Sr., a railroad man and amateur singer, and vaudeville entertainer Grace Hayes (1895–1989). Joseph Lind Sr. died when his son was two years old. Hayes attended parochial school in Cairo, Illinois, during his early childhood before moving to the New York City suburb of New Rochelle and continuing his education there. Career Hayes made his vaudeville debut with his mother at the age of six. In 1939, his mother sold some jewelry and borrowed $8,000 to open the Grace Hayes Lodge in Los Angeles, where he began working as a nightclub performer. He appeared in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s and had a significant television career in the 1950s. He often appeared with his wife Mary Healy. During World War II Hayes enlisted in the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Healy (entertainer)
Mary Sarah Healy (April 14, 1918 – February 3, 2015) was an American actress, singer, and variety entertainer. She performed often with her husband, Peter Lind Hayes, for over 50 years, in a succession of films, television and radio shows and on the stage. She appeared in four Broadway shows between 1942–1958, and her film appearances include '' Second Fiddle'', '' Star Dust'' and Theodore Geisel's musical fantasy '' The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.'' In 2006 she was inducted into the Nevada Entertainment/Artist Hall of Fame at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Biography Healy was born April 14, 1918 in New Orleans. Crowned Miss New Orleans in 1935, she performed as a singer in the New Orleans area. She made her first screen appearance in the 1938 musical comedy '' Josette''. In 1939 she had major film roles in '' Second Fiddle,'' and in '' Star Dust'', where she sang the title song. That year she met entertainer Peter Lind Hayes who, with his mother, vaudevillian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zis Boom Bah
''Zis Boom Bah'', also known as ''College Sweethearts'', is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by William Nigh, and starring Grace Hayes, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy. The plot concerns a vaudeville singer who comes to a floundering college to instill values and self-confidence in its entitled students. Plot Grace Hayes—essentially playing herself—has been playing the vaudeville circuit to finance her son's college education after her wealthy family has shunned her. Tiring of the road, she goes incognito to visit her son, Peter Kendricks (played by her real-life son Peter Lind Hayes) with her personal assistant Mary Healy (played by her real-life daughter-in-law of the same name). She finds her son and the college " going to Hell in a hand basket", despite the earnest efforts of the kindhearted Dean, Prof. Warren (played by Richard "Skeets" Gallagher). The college and the old families are running out of money and spirit. Grace buys the local diner, turns i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myrt And Marge (film)
''Myrt and Marge'' is a 1933 American pre-Code Universal Studios feature film, starring Myrtle Vail and Donna Damerel. The film is noteworthy today because it co-stars Ted Healy and his Stooges, shortly before the trio split from him and became the Three Stooges (Curly Howard, Moe Howard and Larry Fine). The team included Bonnie Bonnell, who was a short-lived female Stooge. Synopsis Film adaptation of the popular 1930s radio serial. Myrt Spear's (Myrtle Vail) touring vaudeville revue is full of talent and bound for Broadway, but low on funds. Conniving and lecherous producer Mr. Jackson ( Thomas Jackson) helps the show so he can romance the young star, Marge Minter ( Donna Damerel). Myrt, and Marge's boyfriend Eddie Hanley (Eddie Foy, Jr.), step in to save the revue and Marge. Ted Healy, Moe, Larry and Curly are stagehands with hopes to join the show, but mostly deal with the antics of backstage crasher Bonnie. Also carrying over from the radio show was the comic-relief "pansy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainbow Over Broadway
''Rainbow Over Broadway'' is a 1933 American pre-Code musical drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Joan Marsh, Frank Albertson and Lucien Littlefield. The film's sets were designed by the art director Edward C. Jewell. Cast * Joan Marsh as Judy Chibbins * Frank Albertson as Don Hayes * Lucien Littlefield as Timothy Chibbins * Grace Hayes as Trixie Valleron * Gladys Blake as Nellie Valleron * Glen Boles as Mickey Chibbins * Dell Henderson as Bowers * Nat Carr as Sanfield * Harry Myers Harry C. Myers (September 5, 1882 – December 25, 1938) was an American film actor and director, sometimes credited as Henry Myers. He performed in many short comedy films with his wife Rosemary Theby. Myers appeared in 330 films between 1908 ... as Berwiskey * May Beatty as Queenie * George Grandee as Bob * Aline Goodwin as Chorus Girl * Maxine Lewis as Chorus Girl References Bibliography * Bradley, Edwin M. ''Unsung Hollywood Musicals of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babes In Arms
''Babes in Arms'' is a 1937 coming-of-age musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Rodgers and Hart. It concerns a group of small-town Long Island teenagers who put on a show to avoid being sent to a work farm by the town sheriff when their actor parents go on the road for five months in an effort to earn some money by reviving vaudeville. Several songs in ''Babes in Arms'' became pop standards, including the title song, "Where or When", "My Funny Valentine", " The Lady Is a Tramp", "Johnny One Note" and "I Wish I Were in Love Again". The film version, released in 1939, starred Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney and was directed by Busby Berkeley. Its radically revised plot retained only two songs from the original stage version—"Where or When" and "Babes in Arms". The film is credited with popularizing the "kids putting on a musical for charity" trope. The original version had strong political overtones with discussions of Nietzsche, a Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Always Leave Them Laughing
''Always Leave Them Laughing'' is a 1949 musical comedy-drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Milton Berle and Virginia Mayo. Plot Unoriginal comic Kip Cooper meets aspiring showgirl Fay Washburn at a second rate hotel in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where he does his act in exchange for room and board. Kip gets a job as an emcee in a tough New York joint but he fails again. He takes a small part in the chorus of a Broadway show, but tells Fay and her ex-vaudevillian parents that he was hired as the lead. The Washburns attend on opening night and Kip, trying to stand out, does an impromptu gag that gets him fired. Fay joins the chorus of big-time comedian Eddie Eagen's touring show. When Eagen is sidelined by a heart attack, Kip is hired to temporarily replace him, since he knows Eagen's routines by heart. Kip is a hit in the out of town tryouts, but also takes too much interest in his co-star, Nancy, who happens to be Eddie's beautiful and much younger wife. Eagen recover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1895 Births
Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty is founded in England by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. * January 13 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeat the Ethiopians. * January 17 – Félix Faure is elected President of the French Republic, after the resignation of Jean Casimir-Perier. * February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts. * February 11 – The lowest ever UK temperature of is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire. This record is equalled in 1982, and again in 1995. * February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest'', is first shown at St Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
