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The list American vaudeville performers includes Josephine Baker, Dean Martin, Virginia Mayo, Sammy Davis Jr. and Joan Blondell. The list consists of 1,452 members and 3 sublists.
  • 1.

    Josephine Baker
    American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)
    Josephine Baker
    Overview: Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald; naturalised French Joséphine Baker; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist ...
    Date of birth: 3 June 1906
    Date of death: 12 April 1975
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Dancer
    Gender: Female
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    Black French actors 46T
    People who renounced United States citizenship 70T
    American bisexual actors 192T
  • 2.

    Dean Martin
    American singer and actor (1917–1995)
    Dean Martin
    Overview: Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor, recording artist and comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the ...
    Date of birth: 7 June 1917
    Date of death: 25 December 1995
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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    People of Abruzzese descent 18T
    20th-century American male singers 1,912T
    American musicians of Italian descent 37T
  • 3.

    Virginia Mayo
    Actress
    Virginia Mayo
    Overview: Virginia Mayo (born Virginia Clara Jones; November 30, 1920 – January 17, 2005) was an American actress and dancer. She was in a series of comedy films with Danny Kaye and was Warner Brothers' biggest ...
    Date of birth: 30 November 1920
    Date of death: 17 January 2005
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    Deaths from pneumonia in California 487T
    20th-century American women singers 2,315T
    Burials at Valley Oaks Memorial Park 44T
  • 4.

    Sammy Davis Jr.
    American entertainer (1925–1990)
    Sammy Davis Jr.
    Overview: Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, dancer, actor, vaudevillian and comedian who has been called "the greatest entertainer ever to grace a stage in these United ...
    Date of birth: 8 December 1925
    Date of death: 16 May 1990
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    Jewish American male comedians 179T
    Broadway actors 482T
    American male jazz musicians 3,118T
  • 5.

    Joan Blondell
    actress
    Joan Blondell
    Overview: Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress who performed in film and television for half a century.
    Date of birth: 30 August 1906
    Date of death: 25 December 1979
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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    Actresses of Irish descent 598T
    WAMPAS Baby Stars 142T
    Hollywood Walk of Fame 371T
  • 6.

    Paulette Goddard
    American actress (1910–1990)
    Paulette Goddard
    Overview: Paulette Goddard (born Marion Levy; June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American actress, a child fashion model and a performer in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl; she became a major ...
    Date of birth: 3 June 1910
    Date of death: 23 April 1990
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    Goldwyn Girls 9T
    20th-century American businesswomen 605T
    Film producers from New York (state) 700T
  • 7.

    Judy Garland
    American actress and singer (1922–1969)
    Judy Garland
    Overview: Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. While critically acclaimed for many different roles throughout her career, she is widely ...
    Date of birth: 10 June 1922
    Date of death: 22 June 1969
    Age: 47 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 4' 11" (150 cm)
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    Austen Riggs Center patients 5T
    United Service Organizations entertainers 148T
    Special Tony Award recipients 132T
  • 8.

    Ginger Rogers
    American actress and dancer (1911–1995)
    Ginger Rogers
    Overview: Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress ...
    Date of birth: 16 July 1911
    Date of death: 25 April 1995
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    Broadway actors 482T
    Daughters of the American Revolution people 192T
    20th-century American women singers 2,301T
  • 9.

    Elinor Donahue
    Actress
    Elinor Donahue
    Overview: Mary Eleanor Donahue (born April 19, 1937), credited as Elinor Donahue, is an American actress, best remembered today for playing the role of Betty Anderson, the eldest child of Jim and Margaret Anderson ...
    Date of birth: 19 April 1937
    Age: 88
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Partner: Lou Genevrino (Married)
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    Actresses from Tacoma, Washington 17T
    21st-century American actresses 5,501T
    20th-century American actresses 7,139T
  • 10.

    Bing Crosby
    American, Actor
    Bing Crosby
    Overview: Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, comedian and actor. The first multimedia star, Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings, and motion picture ...
    Date of birth: 2 May 1903
    Date of death: 14 October 1977
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)
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    American whistlers 27T
    American torch singers 82T
    United Service Organizations entertainers 147T
  • 11.

    Mae West
    American actress (1893–1980)
    Mae West
    Overview: Mae West (born Mary Jane West; August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American stage and film actress, playwright, screenwriter, singer, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned over seven ...
    Date of birth: 17 August 1893
    Date of death: 22 November 1980
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' (152 cm)
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    Illeists 45T
    20th-century American screenwriters 2,308T
    Actresses of Irish descent 598T
  • 12.

    Lena Horne
    African American biracial singer, actress, dancer and activist (1917–2010)
    Lena Horne
    Overview: Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American dancer, actress, singer, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years, appearing in film, television ...
    Date of birth: 30 June 1917
    Date of death: 9 May 2010
    Age: 92 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    American torch singers 82T
    Actresses from Queens, New York 126T
    Actresses from Brooklyn 358T
  • 13.

    Cary Grant
    Actor
    Cary Grant
    Overview: Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor, who was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He was known for his transa ...
    Date of birth: 18 January 1904
    Date of death: 29 November 1986
    Age: 82 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)
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    English vaudeville performers 7T
    English expatriate male actors in the United States 272T
    Stroke-related deaths in Iowa 5T
  • 14.

    George Raft
    American actor
    George Raft
    Overview: George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. A stylish ...
    Date of birth: 26 September 1895
    Date of death: 24 November 1980
    Age: 85 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    American male comedy actors 146T
    Hollywood Walk of Fame 354T
    Male actors of German descent 672T
  • 15.

    Irene Ryan
    Actress
    Irene Ryan
    Overview: Irene Ryan (born Jessie Irene Noblitt; October 17, 1902 – April 26, 1973) was an American actress and comedienne who found success in vaudeville, radio, film, television, and Broadway. Ryan is most ...
    Date of birth: 17 October 1902
    Date of death: 26 April 1973
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)
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    Deaths from glioblastoma 45T
    Deaths from brain cancer in California 66T
    Deaths from brain cancer in the United States 504T
  • 16.

    Frances Bavier
    American actress (1902–1989)
    Frances Bavier
    Overview: Frances Elizabeth Bavier (December 14, 1902 – December 6, 1989) was an American stage and television actress. Originally from New York theatre, she worked in film and television from the 1950s until the ...
    Date of birth: 14 December 1902
    Date of death: 6 December 1989
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    People from Gramercy Park 48T
    Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award winners 41T
    Actresses from New York City 1,485T
  • 17.

    Sally Rand
    American actor and dancer
    Sally Rand
    Overview: Sally Rand (born Helen Gould Beck; April 3, 1904 – August 31, 1979) was an American burlesque dancer, vedette, and actress, most noted for her ostrich feather fan dance and balloon bubble dance ...
    Date of birth: 3 April 1904
    Date of death: 31 August 1979
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Dancer
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)
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    Columbia College (Missouri) alumni 22T
    WAMPAS Baby Stars 141T
    People from Hickory County, Missouri 4T
  • 18.

    Milton Berle
    American comedian and actor (1908–2002)
    Milton Berle
    Overview: Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger; Yiddish: ‏מענדעל בערלינגער‎; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American comedian and actor. Berle's career as an entertainer spanned over 80 years, first ...
    Date of birth: 12 July 1908
    Date of death: 27 March 2002
    Age: 93 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    Jewish American male comedians 179T
    American male comedy actors 146T
    Converts to Christian Science from Judaism 4T
  • 19.

    Mickey Rooney
    American, Actor
    Mickey Rooney
    Overview: Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, producer and radio personality. In a career spanning nine decades and continuing ...
    Date of birth: 23 September 1920
    Date of death: 6 April 2014
    Age: 93 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)
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    Comedians from Los Angeles 164T
    Comedians from Brooklyn 125T
    Military personnel from Brooklyn 101T
  • 20.

    Marion Davies
    American, Actress
    Marion Davies
    Overview: Marion Davies (born Marion Cecilia Douras; January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Educated in a religious convent, Davies fled the school ...
    Date of birth: 3 January 1897
    Date of death: 22 September 1961
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    Polio survivors 208T
    Actresses from Brooklyn 363T
    20th-century American philanthropists 1,250T
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