- Date de naissance
- Date de décès
- Nom de naissanceRobert Waltrip Short
- Bobby Short est né le 15 septembre 1924 dans l'Illinois, États-Unis. Il était acteur. Il est connu pour Hannah et ses soeurs (1986), Argo (2012) et Meurtre mystérieux à Manhattan (1993). Il est mort le 21 mars 2005 dans l'état de New York, États-Unis.
- In the 1950s, Cole Porter heard Short play his work, and - although badly crippled - made his way across the room at the Carlyle to thank him personally. On the 100th anniversary of Porter's birth, the family presented Short with their 'You're the Top Award' for his outstanding contributions to the composer's legend.
- He was a classmate with Dick Van Dyke.
- Performed at the White House for decades, entertaining the Nixon, Carter, Reagan and Clinton administrations.
- Close friends included the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Gloria Vanderbilt, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Merv Griffin Stephen Sondheim, and Carroll O'Connor.
- He was instrumental in spearheading the construction of the Ellington Memorial in his beloved New York City.
- A young man told me, 'How dare you insult your race by not singing the blues?' I still get feedback about that. I'm a 76-year-old black man living in a white society; I've gone through the medley. I'd like to think my legacy included having done something positive to help eliminate the problems between races. I never let racism into the core of me.
- I was a black performer seated at the piano singing songs from Broadway shows. There were no dos and don'ts. I had the freedom to be myself.
- I go back to what I heard Marian Anderson say once: 'First a song has to be beautiful.' However 'beautiful' covers a wide range of things. I have to admire a song's structure and what it's about. But I also have to determine how I can transfer my affection for a song to an audience. I have to decide whether I can put it across.
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