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You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.

Danny Kaye
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It really is a vaudeville show. That is the music I am into.

Aaron Baer
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My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.

Dean Stockwell
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Our philosophy is to make history come alive. The use of a vaudeville show allows students to connect with local history through the hook of entertainment.

Bob Johnson
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Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.

James Cagney
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We're going to look like we're guilty of something when it's just comedians and vaudeville dancing.

Frank Mastalerz
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I did not know who I was. But now, watching it all unfold — and having a past, a present and a future — I think what a little character I was. The character I am now, it's a good and seasoned woman. There's not so much vaudeville, but plenty of heart.

Rickie Lee Jones
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NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

Ambrose Bierce
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TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.

Goodman Ace
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For our audience, I'm hoping that the experience they have is like going to a vaudeville show 100 years ago.

Paul Gurgol
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

Larry Gelbart
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[He became an American citizen and, after a brief amateur boxing career in the early 1920s, performed in vaudeville and on Broadway before launching a film career in 1938 that included starring roles in 54 feature films, including his] On the Road ... The Road to Singapore.

Bing Crosby
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Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

Edgar Bergen
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