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Bert Lahr
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Actor Born: August 13, 1895 in New York City, NY Death: December 4, 1967 in New York City, NY Biography:"How many lion parts are there?" Thus did "Bert Lahr", a major comedy star on Broadway, sum up his occasionally interesting but largely unfulfilling film career. Dropping out of school at 15 to join a juvenile vaudeville act, Lahr worked his way up from second comic to top banana on the Columbia Burlesque Circuit. Along the way, he married his first wife Mercedes Delpino, who was also his onstage partner. Lahr gained popularity with lowbrows and the intelligentsia alike with his grotesque facial expressions, his apparently ad-libbed one-liners, and his plaintive expletive "gnaang, gnaang gnaang!" He graduated from vaudeville to Broadway in 1927, going on to star in such fondly remembered musicals as "Hold Everything", "Flying High", and "Life Begins at 8:40", performing such classic routines as "Stop in the name of the station house!" and "Woodman, Spare That Tree!"
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