" The film starred Monroe and Jane Russell as two gold digging, cabaret performer best friends that many critics point out is Hawks's only female version of his celebrated " buddy film " genre.

It starred his wife, Lyubov Orlova ( an operatic singer who had also appeared in The Jolly Fellows ) as an American circus performer who has to immigrate to the USSR from the U. S. because she has a mixed race child, whom she had with a black man.

* Chris Harris, English performer, director and writer who starred in Into the Labyrinth.

She first starred in Carry On Nurse, then Carry On Teacher, followed by Carry On Constable and Carry On Regardless, and this sealed her future as a regular Carry On performer.

The show was produced by Steve Vizard, who was an Executive Producer, writer and performer, and starred Magda Szubanski, Marg Downey, Michael Veitch, Peter Moon, Jane Turner and Gina Riley who went on to star in Kath & Kim, Alan Pentland, Steve Blackburn, Geoff Brookes, Ernie Dingo, the Rubbery Figures satirical puppets and numerous guests and supporting stars, such as Gerry Connolly and Brian Dawe.

Since 2006 he has starred as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, receiving critical acclaim for his performance and winning two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards for his work on the show, making him the male performer with the most SAG Awards ever.

She was a regular performer at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin and for many years starred in Christmas pantomime.

Also in 2008, Mitchell appeared in two Detroit-based stage productions, Affairs and Laundromat, the latter written by Carlos Faison and also starred comedian Buddy Lewis, Leanne " Lelee " Lyons of R & B group SWV, celebrity impersonator / stage actor Matt Macis, and accomplished vocalist and performer Lauren " Lexxi " Alexis.

He had been a radio scriptwriter and performer since 1975, when he wrote and starred in a BBC radio comedy series called The Worst Show On The Wireless, produced by James Casey, which featured Bill Pertwee, Eli Woods, David Casey ( James Casey's son ), and Alison Steadman.

Ruth Buzzi guest starred as a music and comedy performer on dozens of prime time television specials with colleagues including Jonathan Winters, Carol Burnett, Jim Nabors, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lee Lewis, Wayne Newton, Anne Murray, Rolf Harris, Dom DeLuise, Tony Orlando and was in a show created for Debbie Reynolds called Aloha Paradise, to name just a few.

In the days before BBC Radio 1, Dee was a regular performer of cover versions on BBC Radio, and she starred with a group of session singers in the BBC Two singalong series, One More Time.

Towards the end of the 1790s, Grimaldi starred in Robinson Crusoe, which confirmed him as a key Christmas pantomime performer.

In this adaptation of the Robert E. Sherwood play Idiot's Delight, Blyden starred as Harry, a vaudeville style performer constantly getting into trouble and falling in love.

In 1962, she starred in a short revival of the musical Brigadoon at the New York City Opera and received a Tony nomination, the first performer to be nominated for a revival performance.

Notable Philadelphia Fury players included Johnny Giles, Alan Ball and Peter Osgood, all of whom starred in England before joining the club ; although Osgood was a major disappointment ( 1 goal in 23 matches ), Giles was a solid performer, and Ball was a star ( and served as player-coach in 1978 after the dismissal of manager Richard Dinnis ).

A prolific performer, Johnson was also heard as Mr. District Attorney in 1939, Roger Kilgore, Public Defender, Calling All Cars, and starred in radio adaptations of the comic strips Don Winslow of the Navy and Mandrake the Magician.

He starred in commercial campaigns for Certs and Arby's, and won a Clio Award for his work as a writer / performer in an advertising campaign for the American Dairy Association.

* August 3 – Bee Ho Gray, Native American Wild West star, silent film actor and vaudeville performer ( b. 1885 )

* April 4 – Bee Ho Gray, Wild West star, silent film actor and vaudeville performer ( d. 1951 )

He later worked as a stand-up comedian, eventually becoming a West End revue performer, working on For Amusement Only and For Adults Only.

She became the highest paid performer in the history of the West End up to that time.

In 2007 Kanye West, initially known for more natural sounding hip hop productions influenced by classic R & B music, released his third album Graduation, which featured some songs with a sharp electronic aesthetic, a sound which greatly expanded on West's latest album, where he emphasized synthesizer and vocal manipulations prominently and cited major influences from 1980s synthpop music, as well as from T-Pain, a hip-hop performer known for manipulating his voice by using the electronic effect processor Autotune.

Dean Collins, who arrived in the Los Angeles area around 1937, was influential in developing the style of swing danced on the West Coast of the United States, as both a performer and teacher.

Crawford also found it difficult to break out of the public association with the role, despite his later career as a hugely successful musical performer on the West End and Broadway stage, in popular shows such as Barnum and The Phantom of the Opera.

Little Willie Littlefield, a West Coast blues performer and pianist.

She was encouraged as a performer by her mother, who, according to West, always thought that whatever her daughter did was fantastic.

The event originated in the 1930s, and is claimed to have been started by an individual named Bill Pickett, a Wild West Show performer said to have caught a runaway steer by wrestling it to the ground.

He was soon by far the most popular performer in the country, and perhaps in all of West Africa.

* David Thaxton ( 1982-), West End performer, currently principal Enjolras in Les Misérables ;

Once again West ventured into the unknown having moved to LA where he found considerable continued success as an in demand voice actor and performer. West continues his status and career to this day.

In the second folk revival the most famous West country musicians were melodeon-player Bob Cann and writer, performer and broadcaster Cyril Tawney, ' The Father of the West Country Folk Revival '.

In many instances, Dashan has transcended the role of celebrity performer to become a cultural ambassador between China and the West, both in an informal as well as official capacity.

Gertrude Lawrence ( July 4, 1898 – September 6, 1952 ) was an English actress, singer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End theatre district of London and on Broadway.

The Canterbury Tales ( West End ) was followed by a return to television and the Play for Today series, both as writer and performer and, in turn, more screen roles.

In these details he bears a vague resemblance to Tom Mix, who was a star performer in the 101 Wild West Show and became in turn a movie extra, stunt man, and major star.

* Ahmad ( rapper ), West Coast hip hop performer

Subsequently he became a performer for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show where he remained until 1885.

Another performer is Munkimuk, he works around Australia on community educational hip-hop projects such as 1999s Desert Rap with Brothablack from South West Syndicate and Morganics, organised with Tony Collins from Triple J, of which ABC TV made a documentary.

When the studio refused to hire Texas Guinan, the performer upon whom one of the movie's characters was based, because of her age, Raft advocated for the casting of his friend, Mae West, in a supporting role in his first film as leading man, Night After Night ( 1932 ), which launched her movie career.

Boyd Gaines was the first performer to be nominated for each of Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1989 for The Heidi Chronicles, Best Actor in a Musical in 1994 for She Loves Me, Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 2000 for Contact ( and again in 2008 for Gypsy ) and Best Actor in a Play in 2007 for Journey's End.

Henry Richard " Huntz " Hall ( August 15, 1920 ; – January 30, 1999 ) was an American radio, theatrical, and motion picture performer noted primarily for his roles in the " Dead End Kids " movies, such as Angels with Dirty Faces ( 1938 ), which gave way to the " The Bowery Boys " movie franchise, a prolific and highly successful series of comedies in the 1940s and 1950s.

She has toured extensively both in the UK and abroad and appeared in several West End shows ( most recently in The Vagina Monologues and 84 Charing Cross Road ) and in many pantomimes and is a regular performer ( and part of the original cast ) of the touring play Seven Deadly Sins Four Deadly Sinners.

During her run, she was the highest paid female performer in the West End at $ 30, 000 per week.

From 1970 to 1995 he mostly worked as a musical theatre performer on Broadway, the West End, and in touring productions out of New York.

Maynard was born at 5 Oak Cottages, Heath End, Surrey, and attended Kibworth Beauchamp Grammar School in Leicestershire, and started as a variety performer, taking his professional surname from an advertising board ( billboard ) for Maynard's Wine Gums, a popular British confectionery at the time.

* Charlie Bruce ( Charlotte ), Jazz Dancer / West End performer ( Dirty Dancing ) and winner of BBC1's, So You Think You Can Dance ( UK ) Season 1, ( 2010 )

In 2012, West End performer Meredith Braun recorded " Rainbow Connection " in both English and French (" L ' Arc En Ciel ") for her debut solo album " Someone Else's Story ".

He was the last performer to play Billy Bigelow in the original Broadway production of Carousel and he created the role in the West End production in London.

Originally famous for winning the talent contest Popstars and subsequently being a member of the band Hear ' Say, she is now an established musical theatre and West End performer, actress, model and television presenter in her own right.

He is the creator and performer of the physical theatre productions LaLaLuna, Letter's End and The Man the Sea Saw.