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...stray from the traditional jazz-influenced style of singing, although the American tradition of the torch song typically relies upon the melodic structure of ; Examples of "Torch Singers" include:

{{Header|Great American Songbook 03/23}} ...Songbook''' is the loosely defined canon of significant early-20th-century American jazz standards, popular songs, and show tunes.

...ichard Hayman''' ({{star}}March 27, 1920 – {{dag}}February 5, 2014) was an American arranger, harmonica player and conductor. ...ok place on June 27, 2010, to honor his 90th birthday. The St. Louis Metro Singers, who performed with him at many Pops concerts, were also on stage at the ev

| genre = [[nightclub]] and [[cabaret]] featuring [[Asian American]] performers ..."Chop Suey Circuit" is used to refer to the established network of Chinese American nightclubs which opened in 1930s San Francisco Chinatown.

...ll feature dancing {{lc2|showgirl}}s, Comedy, Variety Acts, Soulful Lounge singers, vintage candy girls and more than a few surprises! With entertainment & at [[Category:American neo-burlesque performers]]

...poser, songwriter, and lyricist. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. ..., and direct, with his stated aim being to "reach the heart of the average American," whom he saw as the "real soul of the country". In doing so, said Walter C

...Bergère. Nearly thirty years later, '''[[Josephine Baker]]''', an African-American expatriate [[singer]], [[dancer]], and entertainer, became an "overnight se

'''Cher''' (born Cherilyn Sarkisian; {{star}}May 20, 1946) is an American [[singer]] and [[actress]]. Described as embodying female autonomy in a mal ...nny & Cher after their song ''"I Got You Babe"'' reached number one on the American and British charts. She began her solo career simultaneously, releasing in

...n the United Kingdom in May 1995 with Lisa Snowdon on the cover. The first American issue was released on April 1, 1997 with Christa Miller as the cover model. Many celebrities (singers, actresses, models, etc.) have posed for ''Maxim'' over the years. This lis

'''Britney Spears''' (born Britney Jean Spears, December 2, 1981) is an American [[singer]], [[dancer]] and actress. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised {{cat|American [[singer]]s}}

...nal pop music|popular]] song ([[jazz standard]]s and the so-called [[Great American Songbook]]) and [[theatre music|theater music]] repertoire...comedy songs, ...r, musicians such as [[David Bowie]] and [[Madonna]] have played nightclub singers in [[music video]]s and live performances.{{citation needed|date=October 20

'''''Algie, the Miner''''' is a 1912 American silent Western film produced by Solax Studios. It was directed by Harry Sch ...ariety show, either in vaudeville theaters, along with live acts featuring singers or comedians, or at a nickelodeon movie theater where the audience paid fiv

...nd moving the soil to reclaim a part of Subic Bay. In 1979, the area under American control was reduced from 24,000 hectares (59,000 acres) to 6,300 hectares ( ...ase that year. Sailors of the war remember talented Filipino musicians and singers, inexpensive San Miguel beer, attractive teenage prostitutes, erotic floor

...nown as Billie Hartwig) was Norwegian and Lutheran. Both were professional singers. Zorina was brought up in Kristiansund, a small coastal town between Trondh ...d role in the London production of ''On Your Toes'' (1937) and was seen by American film producer Samuel Goldwyn, who signed her to a seven-year film contract.

...American popular music [[singer]]. She has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA A {{cat|Singers|Actresses}}

'''Dirty Martini''' (born '''Linda Marraccini''') is an American [[burlesque]] [[dancer]], [[pin-up model]] and dance teacher. ...shion designer Marc Jacobs, talk show hosts Rosie O'Donnel and Ricky Lake, Singers Marilyn Manson and Fred Schneider of the B-52's and writer Cintra Wilson am

'''Pia Zadora''' (born Pia Alfreda Schipani, {{star}}May 4, 1953) is an American actress and singer. After working as a child actress on Broadway, in region {{Cat|Actresses|Singers}}

...r}}June 18, 1905 – {{dag}}July 23, 1985), known as '''Kay Kyser''', was an American [[bandleader]] and radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s. ..."The Ol' Perfessor", spouting catchphrases, some with a degree of Southern American English: "That's right—you're wrong", "Evenin' folks, how y'all?" and "C'

...'''Kai Gilbert'''; {{star}}November 20, 1966 – {{dag}}May 18, 1996) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, composer and producer. He was best known for [[Category:American rock singers]]

Haymes's birth in Argentina to non-U.S. citizens meant he was not an American citizen. In order to avoid military service during World War II, Haymes ass {{actors}}{{cat|Singers}}

...orsey Jr.''' ({{star}}November 19, 1905 – {{dag}}November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and [[bandleader]] of the [[big band]] ...n primarily for its renderings of ballads at dance tempos, frequently with singers such as Jack Leonard and [[Frank Sinatra]].

...''', {{star}}8 September 1924 – {{dag}}23 December 2011) was a French-American [[vaudevillian]], [[actress]] and [[singer]], who from 1948 and 1963, appea ...otted by Hollywood. Denise came to the United States in 1947 and became an American citizen in 1952.

...Robbins (or Betty Gale Murphy), May 7, 1921[2] – February 18, 1980) was an American actress and [[singer]].

...'Avalon Boys quartet' <ref group="Note">The Avalon Boys were a quartet of singers popular in the 1930s. They appeared in a number of comedy films and had a m

...lvania's Mask and Wig Club) were permissible fare to the same middle-class American audiences that were scandalized to hear that in New York, rouged young men ...only the broadest slapstick drag tradition was generally represented. Few American TV comedians consistently used drag as a comedy device, among them Milton B

| children = 3; including Cody Carpenter <ref group="Note">an American {{lc2|musician}} and composer. He is the son of film director John Carpente '''Adrienne Jo Barbeau''' (born {{star}}June 11, 1945) is an American actress, [[singer]], and the author of three books. Barbeau came to promine

...tha Tilton''' ({{star}}November 14, 1915 – {{dag}}December 8, 2006) was an American popular singer during America's swing era and traditional pop period. She i ...Tilton, who was often billed as "The liltin' Martha Tilton". The two Texan singers performed with Country Washburne and His Orchestra, featuring Charles LaVer

...pseudonym]] used by performers and entertainers—such as actors, comedians, singers, and musicians. Such professional aliases are adopted for a wide variety of A middle name may be adopted in preference to changing a name. American Author James Finn Garner, born James Edward Garner, adopted his mother's ma

...'' ({{star}}September 23, 1897 – {{dag}}September 25, 1984) was a Canadian-American actor. He earned two [[Academy Award]] for Best Actor nominations for his r ...''Dark Command'' (1940), where he portrayed the villain (loosely based on American Civil War guerrilla William Quantrill) opposite [[John Wayne]], [[Claire Tr

Gretchen has become a pop culture and internet icon during the 2010s decade. American recording artist Katy Perry claimed that "She is the internet!" Alvaro Nede

...miniscent of the glamour of early twentieth-century Paris, or a more bawdy American bumps ‘n’ grinds style burlesque piece. *Allen, Robert C. ''Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture''

...th Hedrick'''; {{star}}February 9, 1922 – {{dag}}February 17, 2010) was an American actress and coloratura soprano. ...[[June Allyson]] and others. The film was intended as a morale booster for American troops and their families. Grayson starred as the singing daughter of an Ar

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The English comedian [[Charlie Chaplin]] who died in 1977 and the American [[singer]] Michael Jackson were avid fans of Hill's work: Jackson found tim ...imed that he was an avid fan of Benny Hill and that he considered Hill "as American as the Beatles." Indeed, during an episode of The Man Show, Carolla perform

...variety that ran from 2.30 pm until 11 pm. They began to put on shows with singers, dancers, {{lc2|showgirl}}s, and specialty numbers. The first Revudeville a ...nude [[tableaux vivants]] based on themes such as Annie Oakley, mermaids, American Indians, and Britannia. Later, the movement was introduced in the form of t

...al source of sexual services for the US military and a component of Korean-American relations. The women in South Korea who served as prostitutes are known as ...the term migun wianbu (미군 위안부, 美軍慰安婦 "US comfort women"), translating to "American comfort women."

...rraine Burce'''; {{star}}April 1, 1929 – {{dag}}September 16, 2021) was an American actress, singer, and dancer who first appeared in [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] m ...ers'' was named one of the greatest American musicals of all time by the [[American Film Institute]]. Powell starred in ''Athena'' and ''Deep in My Heart'' in

...Jane Fitzgerald''')({{star}}April 25, 1917 – {{dag}}June 15, 1996) was an American jazz [[singer]], sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen ...her more widely noted works, particularly her interpretations of the Great American Songbook.

...of variety performance, and "the first emanation of a pervasive and purely American mass culture," grew to enormous popularity and formed as Nick Tosches write ...ematically, the term "vaudeville," itself, referring specifically to North American variety entertainment, came into common usage after 1871 with the formation

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

...nny" David Goodman''' ({{star}}May 30, 1909 – {{dag}}June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and {{lc2|bandleader}} known as the "King of Swing". The reception of American swing was less enthusiastic in Europe. British author J. C. Squire filed a

...d Franklin Slye'''; {{star}}November 5, 1911 – {{dag}}July 6, 1998) was an American {{lc2|singer}}, actor, and television host. Following early work under his ...y for his work, and there was a competition for a new singing cowboy. Many singers sought the job, including Willie Phelps of the Phelps brothers, who appeare

...Sinatra''' ({{star}}December 12, 1915 – {{dag}}May 14, 1998) was an iconic American jazz-oriented popular [[singer]] and Academy Award-winning actor. ...Monroe Street, Hoboken, New Jersey. He was the only child of the Sicilian-American boxer Anthony Martin Sinatra (1894–1969), and Natalie Dolly Garaventa (18

| prevexpo = [[Ibero-American Exposition of 1929]] in [[Sevilla]] and [[1929 Barcelona International Expo ..., Industry Applies, Man Conforms", trumpeting the message that science and American life were wedded.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/education

...orn Alice Jeanne Leppert; {{star}}May 5, 1915 – {{dag}}May 9, 1998) was an American actress and {{lc2|singer}}. A musical star of 20th Century-Fox in the 1930s ...stated that she could not officially record any of her movie songs, other singers, such as Dick Haymes (whose version hit number one for four weeks), [[Frank

...beth Stafford''' ({{star}}November 12, 1917 – {{dag}}July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer whose career spanned five decades from the lat ...ar II and the Korean War; her recordings received extensive airplay on the American Forces radio and in some military hospitals at lights-out. Stafford's invol

...15, 1944) was born in Clarinda, Iowa on March 1, 1904. Miller was a famous American [[big band]] founder, owner, conductor, composer, "ace" arranger, trombone ...e American Cemetery and Memorial in Cambridge, England which is run by the American Battle Monuments Commission. Since his body was not recoverable, Major Mill

...age it is referred to as '''oryantal dansı''' ("Dance of the East"). Some American devotees refer to it simply as "Middle Eastern Dance". ...articles on the topic, and has enjoyed a large amount of publicity. 1960s American Singer/Dancer Jamila Salimpour was one proponent. It was also popularized

...e Arlene Lake'''; {{star}}January 22, 1909 – {{dag}}March 15, 2001) was an American actress who worked on stage, radio, film, and television, in a career that ...Carson]] and ''Words and Music'' starring an all-star cast of MGM actors, singers and dancers. In 1949, she appeared in the [[Academy Award]]-winning film ''

...er appearing in a handful of films went on to a four-decade long career in American television, starring in her own music and variety shows in the '50s and '60 ...d for two more seasons as a series of monthly broadcasts sponsored by "The American Dairy Association" and "S&H Green Stamps." Simply called "The Dinah Shore S

...Miranda was known for her signature fruit hat outfit that she wore in her American films. As a young woman, she designed hats in a boutique before making her ...in the courtyard of [[Grauman's Chinese Theatre]] and was the first South American honored with a star on the {{lc1|Hollywood Walk of Fame}}. Miranda is consi

John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who c ...s Confederate General Hugh Weedon Mercer and he was a direct descendant of American Revolutionary War General Hugh Mercer, a Scottish soldier-physician who die

...f show business, including film, television, recording and concerts. The [[American Film Institute]] named Garland eighth among the Greatest Female Stars of Al ...Rainbow," which was ranked as the number 1 movie song of all time in the [[American Film Institute]]'s "100 Years...100 Songs" list. Four more Garland songs ar

...sound films without difficulty. She was one of the first successful Latin-American actresses in Hollywood. During the 1930s, her explosive screen persona was In 1926, Frank A. Woodyard, an American who had seen Vélez perform, recommended her to stage director Richard Benn

..., German: ({{star}}27 December 1901 – {{dag}}6 May 1992) was a German-born American actress and [[singer]] whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s. ...honors from the United States, France, Belgium, and Israel. In 1999 the [[American Film Institute]] named Dietrich the ninth greatest female screen legend of

...d O'Connor''' ({{star}}August 28, 1925 – {{dag}}September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer and actor. He came to fame in a series of films in which he {{actors}}{{cat|Dancers|singers|Vaudevillians}}

...site of Josephine Baker|access-date=2 July 2018}}</ref> of [[United States|American]] origin, is remembered as one of the most important vedettes. Her "Revue N ...the Exoticas, they appear in Mexico the famous "Rumberas", dancers of Afro-American rhythms. The Rumberas managed to create their own cinematographic genre: Th

...Groucho" Marx''' ({{star}}October 2, 1890 – {{dag}}August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, actor, writer, stage, film, radio, singer, television star and va ...uch to their surprise, the audience liked them better as comedians than as singers. They modified the then-popular Gus Edwards comedy skit "School Days" and r

...Bing" Crosby Jr.''' ({{star}}May 3, 1903 – {{dag}}October 14, 1977) was an American [[singer]] and actor. The first multimedia star, he was one of the most pop ...most for the morale of overseas servicemen" during World War II. In 1948, American polls declared him the "most admired man alive," ahead of Jackie Robinson a

...8). All were born in Minnesota to a Greek immigrant father and a Norwegian American mother. ...Nash motor cars, Kelvinator home appliances, Campbell's soups, and Franco-American food products.

...Zimmermann''', {{star}}January 16, 1908 – {{dag}}February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer. Known for her distinctive, powerful voice, and her lead ...nd married Robert D. Levitt, a promotion director for the New York Journal-American. The couple eventually had two children and divorced in 1952 due to Levitt'

...t recently she had reportedly been dating Danny Boy, a member of the Irish-American rap group House of Pain, in whose video of "On Point" she appears as a ring ...he visibility to win entrance to the tightly guarded circles of mainstream American celebrity. Following her death, however, most of her reputed former lovers

...y, introducing opera to film-going audiences and inspiring a generation of singers. ...ancing lessons with local dance instructor Caroline Littlefield, mother of American ballerina/choreographer Catherine Littlefield, when very young, performing