Showing posts with label Charles King. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charles King. Show all posts

Friday, March 1, 2024

Josephine Harriman

The dancer Josephine Harriman by Moffett Studio.


Like Elizabeth Brice and Charles King, Josephine Harriman appeared in Charles Dillingham’s THE SLIM PRINCESS (1911); Elsie Janis was another member of the cast. Her time on Broadway was short, stretching from 1907 (THE GIRL BEHIND THE COUNTER) to 1915 (THE PEASANT GIRL). With Elizabeth Brice, she was a member of the 1913 ZIEGFELD FOLLIES cast.


Moffett photographed her in 1914, when she was a member of the cast of Charles Frohman’s production of THE LAUGHING HUSBAND.

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Elizabeth Brice

Elizabeth Brice (Bessie Shaler, 1885-1965) by White Studios.


Brice — no relation to Fanny, a Ziegfeld perennial — made her Broadway début in Lee and J. J. Shubert’s THE SOCIAL WHIRL (1906 and 1907); she appeared in the ZIEGFELD FOLLIES of 1913, although the IBDb page for the show does not list her part. 


Her Wikipedia page emphasizes her partnership in this period with Charles King (1886-1944), who would later appear in THE BROADWAY MELODY (1929, where he introduced the song “You Were Meant for Me”), THE HOLLYWOOD REVIEW OF 1929 (“Orange Blossom Time”), and CHASING RAINBOWS (1930, “Happy Days are Here Again”). In 1930, Brice and King recorded a dozen duets for the Victor, Columbia, and Brunswick record labels.