Block and Sully were an American husband and wife

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team who performed during the years 1926 to 1948.

Vaudeville

Jesse Block started performing in vaudeville as a child, getting his first break as a member of Gus Edwards' ''Song Revue of 1915''. Later, he developed a song-and-dance act and toured for four years as "Block and Dunlap". In 1926, he was introduced to Eve Sully by Bert Gordon. Sully was touring in a song-and-dance act with Blossom MacDonald, sister of Jeanette MacDonald, but she soon joined Block to form a crosstalk comedy act. The couple married in 1930. Block and Sully toured together for three years before they played the

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for the first time in 1929, and headlined there both in April and October 1930.

Later life

In the early 1930s, Block and Sully ventured into radio and had their own program. One of the cast members was a young Arlene Francis. The couple also appeared in a number of film shorts, and were featured in the 1934 feature ''

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'' starring their good friend

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. During

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, they toured with the

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. In 1948, Block and Sully played their last vaudeville engagement at Loew's State. After leaving show business in 1946, Block became a stockbroker with Bache and Company, retiring in 1973. The couple remained happily married until Block died at age 82 on March 27, 1983, at home in

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. Eve Sully Block died of cardiovascular collapse on August 7, 1990, at Tisch Hospital in Manhattan. She was 88 years old.

References

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