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Milton Berle
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Actor Born: July 12, 1908 in New York City, NY Death: March 27, 2002 in Los Angeles Biography:Few American comedians have had so aggressive a "stage mother" as did "Milton Berle". Berle's mother Sarah dragged her son to New Jersey's Edison movie studios in 1914 to do extra work, then finessed the lad into supporting roles, including the part of a newsboy in the first-ever feature-length comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" (1914), which starred "Charlie Chaplin". Under Sarah's powerhouse tutelage, Berle moved into vaudeville, making his debut at the prestigious Palace Theatre in 1921. Berle continued as a vaudeville headliner, with occasional stopovers on Broadway and in Hollywood, into the World War II years. His lengthy starring stint in the 1943 edition of Broadway's "Ziegfeld Follies" established Berle as a brash, broad, wisecracking comedian par excellence, whose carefully publicized propensity for "lifting" other comedians' material earned him the nickname "the Thief of Bad Gags."... Full Biography
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