1930s Show Business

vocalists Bing Crosby Kenny Baker Rudy Vallee Ethel Waters Kate Smith Lena Horne Billie Holiday Ella Fitzgerald Paul Robeson vocal groups The Mills Brothers The Modernaires The Rhythm Boys The Dandridge Sisters The Debutantes Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians bands Benny Goodman Glenn Miller Duke Ellington Tommy Dorsey Kay Kyser Phil Harris Count Basie Cab Calloway Fletcher Henderson Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra Ozzie Nelson Artie Shaw Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians Chick Webb Coon-Sanders & Kansas City Nighthawks Hal Kemp Louis Prima Ben Pollack Woody Herman Harry James Fred Astaire folk & hillbilly Woody Guthrie The Carter Family Jimmie Rodgers The Sons Of The Pioneers	music & variety stars of stage & screen Alice Faye Jack Haley Jeannette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy The Gumm Sisters Will Maston Trio Ray Bolger Maurice Chevalier Eddie Cantor Al Jolson Bert Lahr Will Rogers Joan Blondell Ruby Keeler dancers Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers Eleanor Powell Bill "Bojangles" Robinson The Nicholas Brothers Martha Graham Buddy Ebsen Whitey's Lindy-Hoppers Duke Ellington soloists & composers Hoagy Carmichael Louis Armstrong Coleman Hawkins Irving Berlin George Gershwin Cole Porter Fats Waller Lionel Hampton Aaron Copland Jack Teagarden

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leading ladies Bette Davis Merle Oberon Joan Crawford Vivien Leigh Greta Garbo Carole Lombard Katharine Hepburn Myrna Loy Janet Gaynor Olivia DeHavilland Claudette Colbert Irene Dunne Constance Bennett Miriam Hopkins Marie Dressler Fay Wray youngsters & teens Judy Garland Mickey Rooney Shirley Temple Deanna Durbin Shirley Temple bombshells Mae West Jean Harlow Marlene Dietrich the theater Alfred Lunt Lynn Fontanne Katharine Cornell John Gielgud cowboys & action heroes Gene Autry Dick Foran Fred Scott Tex Ritter Roy Rogers Hoot Gibson Johnny Weissmuller Buster Crabbe	leading men Laurence Olivier Clark Gable Ronald Colman Leslie Howard Henry Fonda Charles Laughton Frank Morgan Orson Welles Spencer Tracy Cary Grant James Cagney Don Ameche Errol Flynn Boris Karloff Wallace Beery Claude Raines Basil Rathbone David Niven Bela Lugosi Gary Cooper Adolphe Menjou George Burns & Gracie Allen comedy W.C. Fields The Marx Brothers Jack Benny Fred Allen Charlie Chaplin George Burns & Gracie Allen Laurel & Hardy Fanny Brice Ed Wynn The Three Stooges The Marx Brothers

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