Think and Grow Rich!



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Kate Smith would Kate Smith (1909-1986) was known as The First
Lady of Radio The Kate Smith Show ran on CBS Radio from to 1947, and she hosted television’s The Kate Smith Hour from to 1954. Her career began with singing parts in assorted vaudeville shows. At age 8 she was entertaining troops in Washington, D. C.,
during World War I. She had two signature songs When the Moon

Comes Over the Mountain which washer theme song, and “God
Bless America the Irving Berlin hit which she first recorded in and which he wrote exclusively for her. Although she had no formal vocal training, her full, robust soprano voice became one of the most recognized in the entertainment industry, and she recorded more than songs during her long career.
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During the Depression WC. Fields (born William Claude Dukenfield in 1880) ran away from home at age 11 and within three years had become well-known as a vaudeville juggler. From 1915 to 1921 he performed as a comic juggler in the Ziegfield Follies. He made the transition to the stage in 1923 in Poppy and by 1931 had moved to
Hollywood and was writing, directing, and starring in his own films.
One of America’s greatest comedians and masters of timing and the delayed response, he is remembered for such films as The Bank Dick
(1940), My Little Chickadee (1940), and Never Give a Sucker an Even
Break (1941). He died in 1946.
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Marie Dressler found Marie Dressler (1869-1934) was one of
Hollywood’s most popular screen personalities in the early s. She specialized in playing strong, self-sufficient, humorous old women.
Her film debut was in the 1914 Tillie’s Punctured Romance, a Mack
Sennett film in which Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Norman also appeared. Dressler won an Academy Award as best actress for her work in the 1931 film Min and Bill, which costarred Wallace Beery.

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