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She was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and went to New Bedford High School. Even before graduating in 1942, she had opened a dance studio where she taught dancing. Dancing was in her blood from an early age, and she performed often at high school festivities, the Mexican Hat Dance being one of her favorites. During the WWII years, she came to Hollywood and became the protégé of Gene Kelly, whom she admired a great deal. She had fine timing and was indefatigable. Unfortunately, she was a diabetic, and this may have been the cause of her demise. She married Larry Blyden in Hollywood (purportedly on the stage of a theatre), and had two children. After her death, her husband took the children to Texas, where they had relatives, and was soon, thereafter, killed in an auto accident.- Actor
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When Georgie was born, his mother missed work as janitor of the building, and the landlord evicted the entire family of 11, carrying Mrs Price and Georgie into the street in her bed. A famous lady social worker (who?) saved them, letting the family return home. Georgie started singing and dancing on the streets and subways of New York at a very early age, and in 1907, accompanied an older brother on his dry-cleaning delivery rounds. He sang for the wife of Gus Edwards, a Vaudeville entrepreneur, and was adopted by the Edwards, thereafter taking Edwards as a middle name. He and "Lila Lee" starred as "Little Georgie and Cuddles" in Gus Edwards song review, "School Days". Surrounded and adored by old-timers of Vaudeville, he mastered many arts, including tap dancing, soft shoe, gag-writing, double-talk, and especially imitation, at which he was regarded as one of the best, not only for his accents and voices, but also for his ability to imitate dancers, singers (including Enrico Caruso, who offered to adopt him), and entertainers of the past -- as taught to him by those who remembered them best. He fell on hard times during his adolescence, when though short, he could no longer play children. Bribing an elevator operator at the Shuberts' office building, he donned the operator's uniform, and imprisoned one (or more) of the Shuberts between floors, just long enough to audition. He became their "headliner", replacing Al Jolson, and later became the first non-classical singer to get a long-term recording contract with RCA Victor. My favorite is "Pushcart Serenade", a comic song on the flip side of " (And Here Am I) Broken Hearted". In the Thirties, he took the advice of his friend Bernard Baruch to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, beginning a second career, but continued on in show business, notably as president of The American Guild of Variety Artists, as a frequent emcee of charitable fund-raisers, as the host of "The Big Time", a CBS radio show in the early Fifties, and as a spokesman for Vaudeville and retired Vaudevilleans.- Harald Tandrup was born on 31 January 1874 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a writer, known for Only One Night (1939) and Gillekop (1919). He died on 10 May 1964.
- Józefina Bielska was born on 22 April 1882 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Skandal na ulicy Szopena (1911), Kosz primadonny (1911) and Dzien kwiatka (1911). She died on 10 May 1964 in Skolimów, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Berta de Bivar was born on 24 November 1889 in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. She was an actress, known for Lisboa (1930), Duas Causas (1952) and Lisboa em Camisa (1960). She died on 10 May 1964 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Arch Hendricks was born on 21 February 1888 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Flying Cadets (1941). He died on 10 May 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA.