George Beban
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George Beban was an American actor, director, writer and producer. Beban began as a child performer in San Francisco, California, and became a well-known vaudevillian and stage actor in the 1890s and
George Beban (The Theatre Magazine; 1915)
Beban as depicted in a 1910 newspaper article
George Beban in The Italian (1915)
Hearts of Men (1919)
Anna Held
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Helene Anna Held was a Polish-born French stage performer of Jewish origin on Broadway. While appearing in London, she was spotted by impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, who brought her to America as his com
George Beban
…Great Decide (1906); The Girl Behind the Counter (1907–1908); The American Idea (1908), a musical comedy by George M. Cohan; Hokey-pokey (1912); and Anna Held's All Star Variete Jubilee (1913–1914). George M. Cohan wrote The American Idea for Beban to play the lead role of Pierre Souchet (and Trixie Friganza…
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Anna Held at the Scala (Paris), poster by Alfred Choubrac (1890).
Portrait of Held c. 1908, by Léopold-Émile Reutlinger
Held and her daughter, Lianne