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Ann-Margret (born {{star}}April 28, 1941) is a Swedish-born American actress, [[singer]] and [[dancer]]. She has won the [[Golden Globe]] Award ..., the Jordanaires (Elvis Presley's backup [[singer]]s), and the Anita Kerr Singers, with liner notes by mentor George Burns. She had a sexy throaty singing vo

...genre had continuing popularity in Europe and persists in limited form in American comics today). Western comics of the period typically featured dramatic scr ...Ranger, and Dell's Lobo (debuting in 1965) was the medium's first African-American character to headline his own series.

...rancis Dorsey''' ({{star}}February 29, 1904 – {{dag}}June 12, 1957) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and [[big band]] leader. He record ...ery record released during 1939–1943 were hits, but especially their Latin American stylized songs like "Amapola", "Maria Elena", and "Green Eyes", which toppe

'''Lillian Russell''' (December 4, 1861 – June 6, 1922) was an American actress and [[singer]]. She became one of the most famous actresses and [[s A full-length portrait of Russell was painted in 1902 by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947) who also painted another oval half-

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and activist. She began her career as a big band singer in ...y Lifetime Achievement Award as well as a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 2011, she was awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career

...e Olympia presented several American music hall performers and also French singers such as Lucienne Boyer, Mistinguett, Damia, Fréhel, Georgius, and Yvonne P In mid-August 1944, the American troops requisitioned the Olympia for two years at the Liberation of Paris.

A '''yiji''' (simplified Chinese: 艺妓; traditional Chinese: 藝妓) were female singers and dancers in ancient China. Yiji are also known as a geji（歌妓, 歌� ...d] In Wu's language, 'sir' is pronounced as' Xisang ', but the English and American people in Shanghai mistakenly thought it was' sing song', and they were req

..., 1907 – {{dag}}June 17, 1986), known professionally as Kate Smith, was an American contralto. Referred to as ''The First Lady of Radio'', Smith is well known ...discoveries of the season for those whose interests run to syncopators and singers of what in the varieties and nightclubs are known as 'hot' songs. Kate Smit

...ey Morner''', {{star}}December 20, 1908 – {{dag}}September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer. He used the acting pseudonym '''Richard Stanley''' before ado {{actors}}{{cat|singers}}

...ed to serve in the military during WWII. Jimmy Stewart was the first major American film star to join the war. While flying B-24 bombing missions over Germany, ...0 stars, players, directors, producers, grips, dancers, {{lc2|musician}}s, singers, writer, technicians, wardrobe attendants, hair stylists, agents, stand-ins

...hopes of becoming successful Broadway shows. The revues featured dancers, singers, comedians, and variety acts, as well as a house band. These revues helped ...cott the club for having such racist policies as refusing entry to African-American clients in the place. The Cotton Club reopened later that year at Broadway

...eading "I am a boy," so they could not be accused of female impersonation. American drag queen RuPaul once said "I do not impersonate females! How many women d

...elson'''; {{star}}May 26, 1886 – {{dag}}October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-American [[singer]], comedian, actor, and vaudevillian. He was one of the United Sta ...ameful poster boy, it is Al Jolson", showcasing Jolson's complex legacy in American society.

...Ambition'' saw Mandel cast as Sugar Cane, one half of a talentless duo of singers who become embroiled in the search for a missing broach. Directed by the e ...sly worked on the film ''Chariots of Fire''. She also appeared in several American TV pilots, including ''All Nonsense Network News'' starring Garry Owens, ''

...0s. He often referred to his nose as the schnozzola (Italianization of the American Yiddish slang word schnoz, meaning "big nose"), and the word became his nic {{actresses}} {{actors}}{{cat|actors|comedians|singers|vaudeville performers}}

...dag}}October 13, 1966), known professionally as '''Clifton Webb''', was an American [[actor]], [[singer]], and [[dancer]]. He worked extensively and was known ...Cross Pageant'' a 50-minute film of a stage production held to benefit the American Red Cross. Webb's final show of the 1910s, the musical ''Listen Lester'', h

...borah Ann Harry''' (born '''Angela Trimble'''; {{star}}July 1, 1945) is an American [[singer]], songwriter, and actress, known as the lead vocalist of the band {{footer}}{{cat|Actresses|Singers|Pin-ups}}

...pink. Every outfit is culled, in a postmodern sort of way, from some stock American look: the women at the door are dressed the way air [[stewardess]]es were i ...ightworkers. Other outfits may be staffed by no-pan (meaning 'no panties') singers and waitresses, or girls whose job is to cover men in suds at 'soaplands',

...lluloid film, which lead to the development of cinema as we know it today. American inventor George Eastman, who had first manufactured photographic dry plates ...ent in Japanese film, as well as providing translation for foreign (mostly American) movies. The popularity of the benshi was one reason why silent films persi

...ern narratives often concern the gradual attempts to tame the crime-ridden American West using wider themes of justice, freedom, rugged individualism, manifest ...and early 21st centuries; but the genre is not limited to the traditional American West setting. Coogan's Bluff and Midnight Cowboy are examples of urban West