Today we celebrate “The World’s Foremost Authority” on NATIONAL PROFESSOR IRWIN COREY DAY! Born in Brooklyn on July 29, 1914, Irwin Corey lived an eventful century plus. Raised in a orphanage because his parents were poverty stricken, he took off at age 13, riding the rails to California, where he enrolled in high school. During …
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Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first one on the Roof Theater called Jardin de Paris on Broadway on July 8, 1907, beginning a 30-year run and making today NATIONAL ZIEGFELD FOLLIES DAY! Inspired by Paris’ Follies Bergere, showman Florence Ziegfeld conceived and produced lavish revues featuring dozens of beautiful dancers and chorus girls (the legendary Ziegfeld …
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104 years ago today, Nathaniel Adams Coles, son of a preacher and a choir organist, was born on March 17, 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama and raised in Chicago. He began playing piano in nightclubs as a teenager, and today is NATIONAL NAT KING COLE DAY! One of America’s most distinctive and accomplished singers, Nat Cole …
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