1920s Entertainers

female vocalists Bessie Smith Ethel Waters Mamie Smith Ruth Etting Vaughn DeLeath "Ma" Rainey Eva Taylor Ida Cox Edith Day male vocalists Rudy Vallee Bradley Kincaid Billy Murray Walter Scanlan Frank Harris Chick Endor Scrappy Lambert Gene Austin bands Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra Coon-Sanders Novelty Orchestra New Orleans Rhythm Kings Duke Ellington Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra Jelly Roll Morton & The Red Hot Peppers King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band Waring's Banjo Orchestra Lawrence Welk & His Hotsy-Totsy Boys Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five Ted Lewis & His Orchestra Eddie Miller Dance Orchestra Ipana Troubadours Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders Cliquot Club Eskimos Erskine Tate's Vendome Orchestra Carroll Dickerson Orchestra Red Nichols	vocal groups The Rhythm Boys Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians soloists & composers Louis Armstrong Irving Berlin George Gershwin Clarence Williams Bix Beiderbecke Lonnie Johnson Frankie Trumbauer Eddie Lang Bennie Moten Eubie Blake George Gershwin folk & hillbilly The Carter Family Jimmie Rodgers Grandpa Jones Ernest Tubb cool facts Bessie Smith was known as the Empress Of The Blues. Louis Armstrong played with both the King Oliver and Fletcher Henderson bands before starting his own band. Jazz is primarily an improvisational music style. Because jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton wrote down his songs, he is considered the first jazz composer.

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music & variety stars of the stage Josephine Baker Fanny Brice Marilyn Miller The Gumm Sisters Maurice Chevalier Eddie Cantor Al Jolson Will Rogers Ed Wynn W.C. Fields Olsen & Johnson Fred & Adele Astaire Gertrude Lawrence Beatrice Lillie Jack Buchanan The Marx Brothers Helen Kane George Burns & Gracie Allen Isadora Duncan Bert Lahr & Mercedes Eddie Foy & The Seven Little Foys George M. Cohan ladies of the theater Lynn Fontanne Katharine Cornell Billie Burke Tallulah Bankhead Helen Hayes Laura Hope Crews Laurette Taylor Doris Keane Mrs. Leslie Carter Minnie Maddern Fiske Ethel Barrymore	men of the theater Alfred Lunt Joseph Schildkraut John Drew George Arliss Otis Skinner Lionel Barrymore John Barrymore Fredric March Leslie Howard cool facts On Broadway, Helen Kane's performance of "I Want To Be Loved By You" made her famous as the boop boop a doop girl. George Burns and Gracie Allen began performing together in 1922 and were married in 1925. The Marx Brothers appeared in several popular Broadway productions during the 1920s. They made their first movie, an adaptation of their stage hit The Cocoanuts, in 1929. John Barrymore appeared in movies and on Broadway during the 1920s, and was a well-known alcoholic. Josephine Baker made a splash on Broadway in the all-black show Shuffle Along. Racism forced her to continue her stage career in Paris, where attitudes were more tolerant.

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Mary Pickford ladies of the big screen Greta Garbo Gloria Swanson Mary Pickford Lillian Gish Clara Bow Betty Bronson Marion Davies Louise Brooks Vilma Banky Renee Adoree Pola Negri Norma Talmadge Bebe Daniels Bessie Love Janet Gaynor Mary Astor Joan Crawford youngsters & teens Baby Peggy Jackie Coogan Buster Keaton	men of the big screen Rudolph Valentino Douglas Fairbanks Sr. John Gilbert Wallace Beery Lon Chaney Victor McLaglen Warner Baxter Conrad Veidt Ronald Colman Adolphe Menjou Al Jolson Maurice Chevalier Charlie Chaplin big screen comedy Charlie Chaplin Laurel & Hardy Buster Keaton Harold Lloyd Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle Harry Langdon Ben Turpin Mabel Normand cool facts Greta Garbo was born in Sweden. She made her first American film, The Torrent, in 1925. Clara Bow was known as the It Girl. If you had IT, you had personal magnetism, charisma and sex appeal. The term was coined by writer Elinor Glyn in 1927. Rudolph Valentino died in 1926 at the age of 31, following surgery for a perforated ulcer. Marion Davies was the mistress of publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton were good friends who made several films together. Arbuckle introduced Keaton to the movie industry in the 1910s. Lon Chaney was known as the Man of a Thousand Faces. His ability to contort his body into all sorts of painful positions and to devise highly effective makeup techniques made him one of the silent era's most unique actors. In 1927, Vilma Banky's celebrity wedding was produced by Samuel Goldwyn and was the most elaborate of the silent era.

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