Smith and Dale
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Smith and Dale were a famous American vaudeville comedy duo. They consisted of Joe Smith and Charlie Dale, who both grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the end of the 19th century. Beginnin
Charlie Dale (left) and Joe Smith in a comedy sketch, filmed for Soundies movie jukeboxes (1941)
Gallagher and Shean
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Gallagher & Shean was a highly successful musical comedy double act in vaudeville and on Broadway in the 1910s and 1920s, consisting of Ed Gallagher and Al Shean; Shean was the maternal uncle of the M
Smith and Dale
…several famous comic performers of vaudeville, radio and movies that collectively originated from the same place and era. Other entertainers included Gallagher and Shean, George Burns, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel and the Marx Brothers. Sultzer and Marks met as teenagers in the fall of 1898, when they accidentally ran…
Gallagher–Shean autographed drawing by Manuel Rosenberg for The Cincinnati Post, 1924