Word: jessel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that's what Marlene gets, but I said Marlene hasn't got syndication." Fitfully hazarding a buck and wing, he boasted: "I did four shows a day at McVickers' in Chicago right after the Armistice." And at twelve, he proudly recalled, he plugged songs with George Jessel at the old Imperial Theater in New York, later danced with Eddie Cantor and Lila...
...months they had suspected that he was something more. "I've seen the act in vaudeville," said awed ex-Vaudevillian Charley Foy. "It's two guys on roller skates." Chimed in a breed-improver named Georgie Jessel: "His name isn't Sullivan at all. He's Silky Solomon. I knew him in Philadelphia...
...under the shrewd guidance of first husband Joseph M. Schenk (through such films as Smilin' Through, Camille), retired in 1930 with wealth intact after an unsuccessful try at the talkies (and a Mexican divorce from Schenk), stormily wed (in 1934) and divorced Comic George Jessel, later, a victim of arthritis, lived in Nevada seclusion with Dr. Carvel James, her husband since...
...quite a while has there been a Broadway thriller with so much plot-which is fortunate, since there has not been one either with such strenuous overacting. Under Shepard Traube's direction, a largely English cast headed by Denholm Elliott (Ring Round the Moon) and Patricia Jessel (Witness for the Prosecution) exhibit all the subtlety of a burglar alarm. But however heavy-footed in style, Monique-at least for anyone unacquainted with the book or the film-moves with considerable suspense from one plot to twist to another, and offers a passable surprise at the final curtain...
...quarterly Paris Review. Onetime Cineminor Joyce (Boy Trouble) Mathews, 36, a headliner in 1951 when she slashed her wrists and scared everybody by threatening a nosedive from the Manhattan apartment of Showman Billy Rose, clucked joyously of spring wedding bells for her and Billy, 56. Thrice-wed Comic George Jessel, 57, warily croaked that he has "an affectionate little ring" for unstarred Starlet Joan Tyler's engagement finger. Quipped Georgie: "It's not modern to say one is engaged...