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Cantor and Durante

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Radio 2 Arts Programme Richard Anthony Baker presents a look at
American vaudeville through the eyes of its two most lovable characters - Eddie
Cantor and Jimmy Durante. Starting their careers together as singing waiters, they soon developed individual styles as solo entertainers - banjo-eyed Eddie with a string of hit songs in the Ziegfeld Follies and "Schnozzle" Durante rasping out his bizarre comedy compositions.
Richard Anthony Baker talks to their biographers and also considers two British women who made their mark on vaudeville - Vesta
Victoria and Alice Lloyd. Producer Stella Hanson

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Anthony Baker
Unknown:
Jimmy Durante.
Talks:
Richard Anthony Baker
Talks:
Alice Lloyd.
Producer:
Stella Hanson
Source: Radio Times

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