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| x Paul Jabara |
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Paul Jabara (January 31, 1948 – September 29, 1992) was an American actor, singer, and Grammy Award winning songwriter of Arab ancestry. He wrote Donna Summer's Oscar and Grammy Award-winning hit "Last Dance" from Thank God It's Friday (1978) and...
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| x Ashley Brown |
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Ashley Brown (born February 3, 1982) is an actress who is currently playing the title character in the United States national tour of Mary Poppins after originating the role on Broadway.
Brown initially caught the attention of casting director Tara...
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| x William Gaxton |
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William Gaxton (December 2, 1893-February 2, 1963), born Arturo Antonio Gaxiola in San Francisco, California, was a star of vaudeville, film, and theatre. He appeared in some ten films and eleven shows. Gaxton debuted on Broadway in the Music Box...
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| x Marissa Jaret Winokur |
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Marissa Jaret Winokur (born February 2, 1973) is a Tony Award-winning American actress known for her performance as Tracy Turnblad in the highly successful Broadway musical adaptation of John Waters' film Hairspray, as well as her work on the Pamela...
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| x Robert Morse |
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The Wizard | Wicked |
Robert Morse (born May 18, 1931, Newton, Massachusetts) is an American actor. Morse is best known for his appearances in musicals and plays on Broadway, and has also acted in movies and TV shows.
After serving in the US Navy during the Korean War,...
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| x Len Cariou |
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Leonard Joseph "Len" Cariou (born September 30, 1939) is a Canadian Tony Award-winning actor.
Born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Cariou is the son of Molly Estelle (née Moore) and George Marius Cariou, a salesman. He grew up and attended school in St...
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| x John Lithgow |
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John Arthur Lithgow (pronounced /ˈlɪθɡoʊ/; born October 19, 1945) is an American actor, best known for his starring role as Dr. Dick Solomon on the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. He has also achieved success on stage, film, and radio. He has...
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| x Zero Mostel |
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Tevye | Fiddler on the Roof |
Samuel Joel “Zero” Mostel (February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977) was an American actor of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the...
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| x Harvey Fierstein |
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Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6, 1954) is an actor and playwright.
Fierstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jacqueline Harriet (née Gilbert), a school librarian, and Irving Fierstein, a handkerchief manufacturer. He is Jewish by...
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| x Brandon Maggart |
Brandon Maggart (born 12 December 1933) is an American actor.
Maggart was born Roscoe Maggart, Jr. in Carthage, Tennessee. His acting career began in the early 1950s, at first in local and regional theatre in Tennessee, which eventually branched out...
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| x Sutton Foster |
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Sutton Foster (born March 18, 1975) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She has been nominated for four Tony Awards winning for her performance in the title role of Thoroughly Modern Millie. She is the sister of actor Hunter Foster.
Foster...
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| x Steve Barton |
Steve Barton (June 26, 1954 – July 21, 2001) was an actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, stage director and teacher.
Steven Neal Barton was born on June 26, 1954 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States, as youngest from 3 children of Tom and Mary...
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| x David Shiner |
David Shiner (born September 13, 1953) is an American clown and actor.
Shiner was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Francis Shiner, a computer programmer, and a homemaker mother. The lanky Shiner, usually donning a small dunce cap, started...
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| x Dorothy Loudon |
Dorothy Loudon (September 17, 1933 – November 15, 2003) was an American comedy actress and singer. She won the 1977 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a...
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| x Donna McKechnie |
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Donna McKechnie (born November 16, 1942) is an American musical theater dancer, singer, actress, and choreographer. She is perhaps best known for her professional and personal relationship with choreographer Michael Bennett, with whom she...
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| x Shelley Plimpton |
Shelley Plimpton (born February 27, 1947) is an American former actress and Broadway performer.
The Roseburg, Oregon native's acting career spanned from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s. She created the role of "Crissy" in the original 1967 Off...
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| x The Andrews Sisters |
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The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group, consisting of sisters LaVerne Sophia Andrews (contralto; July 6, 1911–May 8, 1967), Maxene Angelyn Andrews (soprano; January 3, 1916–October 21, 1995), and Patricia Marie (a.k.a....
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| x Marilu Henner |
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Lee | The Tale of the Allergist's Wife |
Marilu Lucy Henner (born April 6, 1952) is an American actress, producer and New York Times best-selling author.
Born "Mary Lucy Denise Henner" in Chicago, Illinois, to a Greek mother and Polish father. Marilu's father and brother later changed the...
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| Barbara Kahn | Social Security | ||||
| Donna | Over Here! | Mar 6, 1974 | |||
| Marty | Grease | ||||
| x Raúl Esparza |
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Raúl Eduardo Esparza (born October 24, 1970) is an American stage actor.
Born in Wilmington, Delaware to Cuban American parents and raised in Miami, Florida, Esparza graduated from Belen Jesuit in 1988 and later received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in...
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| x Bonnie Franklin |
Bonnie Gail Franklin (born January 6, 1944) is an American actress, best known for her starring role as a divorced mother in the television series One Day at a Time.
Franklin was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Claire (née Hersch)...
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| x Bob Martin |
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Bob Martin is a writer, actor, and comedian from Toronto, Ontario, Canada born in England circa 1963. He has both performed in and written many TV shows. He also provides the voice of Cuddles the comfort doll on the Canadian TV show Puppets Who Kill...
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| x Samuel E. Wright |
Samuel E. Wright (born November 20, 1946 in Camden, South Carolina) is an American actor who is best known as the voice of Sebastian in Disney's The Little Mermaid, and the voice of Kron in Disney's Dinosaur.
Samuel E. Wright was nominated for a...
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| x Chuck Cissel |
Charles "Chuck" Cissel is an American singer and dancer. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School. He received his BA from the University of Oklahoma, and was one of the first African Americans to graduate...
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| x Beatrice Lillie |
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Bea Lillie (May 29, 1894 – January 20, 1989) was a comic actress. She was born as Beatrice Gladys Lillie in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Following her marriage in 1920 to Sir Robert Peel, she was known in private life as Lady Peel.
She began performing...
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| x Janis Paige |
Janis Paige (born as Donna Mae Tjaden, September 16, 1922, Tacoma, Washington) is an American film, musical theatre and television actress. She began singing in public from the age of five in local amateur shows. She then moved to Los Angeles after...
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| x Sarah Brightman |
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Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) is a British classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She sings songs in many languages including English, Spanish, French, Latin, German, Italian, Russian, Hindi, and Mandarin.
Brightman...
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| x Georgia Engel |
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Georgia Bright Engel (born July 28, 1948) is an American film, television, and stage actress.
Engel was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Ruth Caroline (née Hendron) and Benjamin Franklin Engel, who was a Coast Guard officer, eventually...
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| x Nell Carter |
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Nell Carter (September 13, 1948 – January 23, 2003) was an African-American singer, and film, stage, and television actress.
Born Nell Ruth Hardy to Horace and Edna Mae Hardy in Birmingham, Alabama, Carter was one of nine children. She overcame...
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| x Terrence Mann |
Terrence Vaughan Mann (born 1 July 1951) is an American actor and dancer who has been prominent on the Broadway stage for the past two decades.
Mann was born Terrance Vaughan Mann in Ashland, Kentucky and grew up in Largo, Florida. He is a 1969...
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| x Joel Grey |
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The Wizard | Wicked |
Joel Grey (born April 11, 1932) is a Tony-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA-, & Academy Award-winning American stage and screen actor known best for his role as the Emcee in both the stage and film adaptation of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret.
Grey was born...
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| Amos Hart | Chicago | Nov 14, 1996 | |||
| x Ethel Merman |
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Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer known for musical theatre, well known for her powerful voice, and often hailed by critics as "The Grande Dame of the Broadway stage".
Merman was born Ethel Agnes...
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| x Victor Moore |
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Victor Frederick Moore (born February 24, 1876, in Hammonton, New Jersey; died July 23, 1962, in East Islip, New York) was a star of stage and screen, as well as being a comedian, writer and director.
He was married twice, first to actress Emma...
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| x Michael Crawford |
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Michael Crawford OBE (born 19 January 1942) is an English actor and singer, known for his tenor voice and powerful performances. He has won critical acclaim and numerous awards during his career, which includes radio, television and stage (including...
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| x Janie Sell |
Jane Ann "Janie" Sell (born October 1, 1939, Detroit, Michigan) is an American actress.
Sell won the Tony as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Over Here!, which also starred the then-surviving Andrews Sisters, Maxene and Patty. She also...
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| x John McMartin |
John McMartin is an American actor of stage, film and television.
McMartin was born in Warsaw, Indiana and raised in Minnesota. He attended college in Illinois and New York. He made his off-Broadway debut in Little Mary Sunshine in 1959, playing...
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| x Rick Lyon |
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Rick Lyon is a puppeteer, actor, and bassist originally from Rochester, New York, who has worked for the Jim Henson Company as one of the operators of Big Bird. He appeared on Broadway originating the roles of several characters in Avenue Q, a...
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| x Scott Allen |
Scott Ethan Allen (born February 8, 1949 in Newark, NJ) is an American former figure skater. He won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice and won a bronze medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics two days before his 15th birthday,...
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| x Leslie Uggams |
Leslie Uggams (born May 25, 1943, New York City) is an American actress and singer, perhaps best known for her Tony Award-winning work in Hallelujah, Baby!
Uggams first started in show business as a child in 1950, playing the niece of Ethel Waters...
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| x Penny Fuller |
Penny Fuller (born July 21, 1940) is an American actress.
Born in Durham, North Carolina, Fuller attended Northwestern University in Illinois. She then went to New York City to make a name for herself on Broadway. Debuting in The Moon Besieged (1962...
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| x Mandy Patinkin |
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Mandel Bruce "Mandy" Patinkin (pronounced /pəˈtɪŋkɨn/; Hebrew: מנחם מנדל) (born November 30, 1952) is an American actor of stage and screen and a tenor vocalist. Patinkin is known for his roles in television series such as: Chicago Hope, Dead Like...
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| x Tammy Grimes |
Tammy Lee Grimes (born January 30, 1934) is an American actress and singer.
Grimes was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the daughter of Eola Willard (née Niles), a naturalist and spiritualist, and Nicholas Luther Grimes, an innkeeper, country club...
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| x Sally Ann Howes |
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Sally Ann Howes (born July 20, 1930) is an English singer and actress, who currently holds dual British-American citizenship. Her career on stage, screen and television has spanned over six decades. She is best remembered for the role of Truly...
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| x Susan Egan |
Susan Egan (born February 18, 1970) is an American actress and singer best known for her work on the Broadway stage.
She was born in Seal Beach, in California. She attended UCLA and Los Alamitos High School, first site of the Orange County High...
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| x Beatrice Arthur |
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Beatrice "Bea" Arthur (May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009) was an American actress, comedian and singer whose career spanned seven decades. Arthur achieved fame as the title character Maude Findlay on the 1970s sitcom Maude, and as Dorothy Zbornak on the...
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| x Jack Cassidy |
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John Joseph Edward “Jack” Cassidy (March 5, 1927 – December 12, 1976) was an American actor of stage, film and screen.
His frequent professional persona was that of an urbane, super-confident egotist with a dramatic flair, much in the manner of...
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| x Charles Nelson Reilly |
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Hello, Dolly! |
Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 – May 25, 2007) was an American actor, comedian, director and drama teacher known for his comedic roles in movies, children's television, animated cartoons, and as a panelist on the game show Match Game....
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| x Heather Headley |
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Heather Headley (born October 5, 1974) is a Trinidadian R&B; and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has won one Tony Award and received two Grammy Award nominations.
At age four, Headley began playing the music of her native...
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| x Lauren Bacall |
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Lauren Bacall (born September 16, 1924) is an American film and stage actress and model. Known for her husky voice and sultry looks, she has continued acting to the present day.
Bacall is perhaps best known for being a film noir leading lady in...
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| x Norbert Leo Butz |
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Fiyero | Wicked |
Norbert Leo Butz (born January 30, 1967) is an American actor best known for his work in Broadway theatre.
Butz was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Elaine and Norbert Butz. He is often referred to as "Norbs" by his family. He was raised in a...
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| x Robert Hooks |
Robert Dean "Bobby" Hooks (born April 18, 1937) is an American actor of film, television and stage. With a career as a producer and political activist to his credit, he is most recognizable to the public for his over 100 roles in film and television...
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| x Armelia McQueen |
Armelia McQueen (born on January 6, 1952 in North Carolina) is an American actress. She has played roles in both film and TV.
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| x Gene Nelson |
Gene Nelson (March 24, 1920 - September 16, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, screenwriter, and director.
Born Leander Eugene Berg in Seattle, Washington, he was inspired to become a dancer by watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies when...
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| x Kelly Bishop |
Carole “Kelly” Bishop (born February 28, 1944) is an American actress, who may be best-known for her role as matriarch Emily Gilmore on the series Gilmore Girls.
Bishop was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado to Jane Lenore (née Wahtola, of Finnish...
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| x Sherie Rene Scott |
Sherie Rene Scott (born February 8, 1967) is an American actress, singer and writer who recently played Ursula in the Broadway musical, The Little Mermaid to critical acclaim. She is a co-founder of Sh-K-Boom Records and has appeared in numerous...
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| x Kristin Chenoweth |
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Glinda | Wicked |
Kristin Chenoweth (born July 24, 1968) is an American singer, musical theater, film, and television actress, and bestselling author. Some of her best-known roles have included her Tony Award winning role as Sally Brown in Broadway's You're a Good...
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| x Edward Woodward |
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Edward Albert Arthur Woodward OBE (born 1 June 1930, Croydon) is an English actor and singer.
Originally a Shakespearian stage actor, he is best known for his role in the 1960-1970s spy series, Callan, for the 1973 film The Wicker Man and his lead...
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| x Alexis Smith |
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Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 - June 9, 1993) was a Canadian-born stage, film and television actress.
Born Gladys Smith in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, Smith was raised in Los Angeles. She was signed to a contract by Warner Bros. after being...
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| x Terry Carter |
Terry Carter (born December 16, 1928) is an American actor and filmmaker who is known for his roles as "Sgt. Joe Broadhurst", on the seven year hit TV series McCloud and as "Colonel Tigh" on the original Battlestar Galactica.
Carter was born in...
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| x Melba Moore |
Melba Moore (born Melba Hill, October 29, 1945, New York) is an American R&B; singer and actress. She is the daughter of saxophonist Teddy Hill and R&B; singer Bonnie Davis.
Born Melba Hill to Alabamian musicians, Moore attended Newark Arts High...
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| x Rudy Vallée |
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Rudy Vallée (28 July 1901 – 3 July 1986) was an American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vallée. Both of his parents were born and raised...
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