Vernon Duke
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Vernon Duke was a Russian and American composer and songwriter, who also wrote under his birth name, Vladimir Dukelsky. He is best known for "Taking a Chance on Love," with lyrics by Ted Fetter and Jo
Duke in 1937
Sid Caesar
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Isaac Sidney Caesar was an American comic actor and comedian. With a career spanning 60 years, he was best known for two pioneering 1950s live television series: Your Show of Shows, which was a 90-min
Vernon Duke
…by an all-black cast at the Martin Beck Theater in New York. Between 1942 and 1944, he served in the US Coast Guard. While in service, he discovered Sid Caesar, a saxophone player in the Coast Guard Band, and wrote a touring show for the Coast Guard called Tars & Spars. He also conceived some of his finest…
Caesar in 1961
Imogene Coca and Caesar in Your Show of Shows (1952)
L–R: Edie Adams, Caesar, Jonathan Winters, Ethel Merman, Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Caesar in 1972