Danny Simon (December 12, 1918, New York City - July 26, 2005, Portland, Oregon) was an American television writer and comedy teacher. He was also older brother to acclaimed American playwright Neil Simon. The elder Simon wrote for television shows including Your Show of Shows, The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Phil Silvers Show, Make Room for Daddy, My Three Sons, The Carol Burnett Show, The Kraft Music Hall, Diff'rent Strokes, and The Facts of Life.

Sharon Baird was (born August 16, 1943) in Seattle, Washington. She is an American dancer and actress, best known for having been a performer on the original Mickey Mouse Club television show from 1955 to 1958. Her parents were Eldon Baird, an aerospace worker, and Nikki Marcus, a talent agent. She began dance lessons at age three, and appeared in her first film Bloodhounds of Broadway in 1950.

Bambi Linn, born on April 26, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress. Linn, born Bambi Linnemeier, trained extensively with Agnes de Mille and, at the age of seventeen, made her Broadway debut in the original production of "Oklahoma!" (1943) De Mille used her again as Louise in "Carousel" (1945), for which she earned a Theatre World Award; she repeated the role in the 1957 revival at City Center.

Evelyn Knight (born 1929 in Washington, D.C.) is an American singer of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1948, she recorded "A Little Bird Told Me" with the Stardusters, originally intended for Paula Watson, which topped charts for seven weeks and stayed on for five months. Knight had another hit with "Buttons and Bows" in 1948, which Bob Hope also sang in the film "The Paleface". The song was also recorded by and successful for Dinah Shore.

Lisa Kirk (February 25 1925 - November 11 1990) was an American actress and singer. Born as Elise Marie Kirk in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, she enrolled as a law student at the University of Pittsburgh but abandoned her studies when she was offered a spot in the chorus line at the Versailles nightclub in Manhattan. She made her Broadway debut in "Allegro" in 1947, …

Isabel Bigley (23 February, 1926 - 30 September, 2006) was a Tony-winning musical theatre star. Born in The Bronx, New York City, NY, Bigley is best remembered for originating the part of Sarah Brown in Frank Loesser's masterpiece "Guys and Dolls". In 1951, she had been playing the role of Laurey in the London production of "Oklahoma!" when she was offered the role of Sarah Brown, the "mission doll," in "Guys and Dolls".

Ella Logan (March 6 1913 - May 1 1969) was a Scottish-born actress and singer, who appeared on Broadway, recorded and had a nightclub career in the United States and internationally. She was born Annabelle Armour-Allan in Glasgow, where she was raised and educated. She initially performed under an abbreviated version name of her birth name, Ella Allan. She began her career as a child becoming a band singer in music halls.

Jo Ann Campbell (born 20 July 1938, Jacksonville, Florida) is an American pop singer. Campbell began attending music school at the age of four, and won many honors as a drum majorette at Fletcher High School. In 1954 she travelled Europe as a dancer, then moved to New York, where she joined the Johnny Conrad Dancers and made several television appearances on shows such as "The Milton Berle Show" and "The Colgate Comedy Hour".

Claims he was thrown out of high school for punching out his principal who had offended him with an anti-Semitic remark. Then went directly into vaudeville. An episode of "Seinfeld" (1990) makes use of plot point based on Lewis'(alleged) real-life strategem of secretly leaving an audiotape recorder running in a briefcase he intentionally leaves behind him in meetings to see what some people may be saying about him. Born at 12:15pm-EST Had open heart surgery in 1983. Underwent...

Father of actor Barry Miller.

Though best known for the 51 films he made, Dean Martin was a prizefighter, steel mill laborer, gas station attendant and card shark before seeing the first glimmer of fame. It came when he teamed up with comedian Jerry Lewis in 1946. Films such as At War with the Army (1950) sent the team toward superstardom. After teaming with Lewis, Martin - born Dino Paul Crocetti - became a dramatic actor and the star of a long-running television variety show. Personality conflicts broke up the...

Born and raised in Paterson, New Jersey (a city he invariably mentioned in almost all his movies and TV shows), Lou Costello dropped out of high school and headed west to break into the movies. He got a job as a carpenter at MGM and Warners. He went from there to stuntman and then to vaudeville as a comic. In 1931, while working in Brooklyn, his straight man became ill and the theater cashier, Bud Abbott, filled in for him. The two formed their famous comedy team and, through the 1930s,...

Born into a vaudeville family, O'Connor was the youthful figure cutting a rug in several Universal musicals of the 1940s. His best-known musical work is probably Singin' in the Rain (1952), in which he did an impressive dance that culminated in a series of backflips off the wall. O'Connor was also effective in comedic lead roles, particularly as the companion to Francis the Talking Mule in that film series.

Abbott worked in carnivals while still a child and dropped out of school in 1909. He worked as assistant treasurer for the Casino Theater in Brooklyn, then as treasurer or manager of various theaters around the country. He worked as straight man to vaudeville performers such as Harry Steepe and Harry Evanson while managing the National Theater in Detroit, and, in 1931 while cashiering at the Brooklyn theater, he substituted for comic Lou Costello's ill straightman. The two formed their...

First wife Jeanne died in 1943. Wed second wife, Marjorie Little after 16 year courtship when she was 39 and he 67 Marjorie Little had been the hatcheck girl at the Copacabana. Durante and his second wife adopted a baby girl, Cecelia Alicia on Christmas day 1961. Durante doted on "CeCe" until his death. Interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, USA. Specific Interment Location: F, T96, 6. Daughter Cecilia is a horseback-riding instructor, is married to a computer...

Father of 'David . Arnold'

Albert Gordon MacRae was born on March 12, 1921, in East Orange, NJ. During his early years he resided in Syracuse, NY, and while in high school spent much of his time singing and acting in the Drama Club. It was also during this time that he learned to play the piano, clarinet and the saxophone. At 19 he entered a singing contest and won a two-week engagement at The World's Fair in New York, performing with the Harry James and Les Brown bands. In 1940, while working in New York City as...

Two sons: Thomas and James. Grandchildren include: Rick D'Andrea, Elise (Lisa) D'Andrea, Elizabeth D'Andrea-Smith.

Shapely, sultry singer Connie Russell came from show biz parents and was already performing in her parent's song-and-dance vaudeville act by age two. The New York-born Connie, whose musical heritage included well-known vaudevillian and grandmother Marie Russell, traveled both in the U.S. and Europe during her early days. She turned solo at age 11 and, quite mature for her age, began booking her own shows at popular London night spots in her mid-teens. Making her musical film debut in...

Composer, songwriter, conductor, pianist and arranger, educated at the Peabody Conservatory (on scholarship). He was a pianist in early film theatres, and later a choral director and music director for the Aborne Opera Company. He conducted and arranged for Al Jolson, and conducted the Broadway musicals "Blossom Time", "My Dream Girl", "Good News", "The Band Wagon", "The New Moon", "Ziegfeld Follies", and "George White's Scandals". His Broadway stage scores include "Linger Longer...