The constant themes are her battles against the censors she had a short stint in jail in 1927 her adoption of black culture, jazz, the blues and, especially, the shimmy, her avowed promiscuity set against her childlessness, a loveless marriage to a small-time vaudevillian, and a regular pattern of critical failure followed by huge popular success.
After the set-up, in which Rylance as an upstart vaudevillian gabbled brilliantly through false teeth for 20 minutes, energy was drained from the stage in every passing scene.
Gable and Shearer, who led the film cast, were not quite as good as Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, who had starred in the original Broadway production, though Gable was entertaining as a smirking vaudevillian.
Fosse, who was the son of a vaudevillian, attended dance schools as a child and began dancing professionally at the age of 13.
One of the comedian's best vehicles, it featured Hope as a vaudevillian who becomes involved with a British spy (Madeleine Carroll) being chased by Nazis.
His father was a theatre producer, and his mother was a vaudevillian.
In her biography of this earlier Russian dancer who enthralled the West, Judith Mackrell brings to life Lopokova's chilly reception among Bloomsbury intellectuals, her stint as a vaudevillian in the U.S., and her enigmatic and spirited form of ballet.
From that vaudevillian exchange, it was a downhill sledge ride all the way until the holy trinity of subjects deemed seemliest for manly mirth were closet homosexuality, cuckoldry and girth.
MORE James Lawton In London, Usain Bolt invaded doubt with glorious performances and the gifts of a vaudevillian.
Miss Behave's Variety Nighty, The Roundhouse, London, to 24 August 0844 482 80088) Barry & Stuart They may sound as though they should be in a sketch by the Absolutely comedy sketch group, but Barry and Stuart are in fact a vaudevillian act fusing "bizarre" magic and comedy.
The models for his Retired Rockers collection are a gallery of rogues in mix-and-don't-match styles and colours, shiny suits, 1950s shades, chocolate corduroy waistcoats, headbands, leopardskin jackets, voluminous coats, vaudevillian hats.
