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Abraham Elieser Adolph Schönberg (May 12, 1868 – August 12, 1949), known as Al Shean, was a comedian and vaudeville performer. Other sources give his birth name variously as Adolf Schönberg, Albert Schönberg, or Alfred Schönberg. [6]
Al Shean was born on 12 May 1868 in Dornum, Province of Hanover, Kingdom of Prussia [now Lower Saxony, Germany]. He was an actor and writer, known for The Blue Bird (1940), Ziegfeld Girl (1941) and Live, Love and Learn (1937).
Gallagher & Shean was a highly successful musical comedy double act in vaudeville and on Broadway in the 1910s and 1920s, consisting of Ed Gallagher (1873–1929) and Al Shean (1868–1949); Shean was the maternal uncle of the Marx Brothers.
Al Shean was born on 12 May 1868 in Dornum, Province of Hanover, Kingdom of Prussia [now Lower Saxony, Germany]. He was an actor and writer, known for The Blue Bird (1940), Ziegfeld Girl (1941) and Live, Love and Learn (1937). He was married to Johanna Davidson.
…the nephews of vaudeville headliner Al Shean of the popular team Gallagher and Shean. In 1904 Groucho became the first of the brothers to appear onstage, when he joined a singing trio. He was eventually joined by Gummo, Harpo, and Chico in what, after a long series of incarnations, evolved…
Abraham Elieser Adolph Schönberg (May 12, 1868 – August 12, 1949), known as Al Shean, was a comedian and vaudeville performer. Other sources give his birth name variously as Adolf Schönberg, Albert Schönberg, or Alfred Schönberg.
This is the first biographical documentary about the most famous comedians of the 1920s, Ed Gallagher and Al Shean. A complete look into their lives, careers, ups and downs. Their famous song...
Shean had some solo film roles: as the piano player, known as "The Professor" in San Francisco (1936), as a priest in Hitler's Madman (1943), as grandfather in The Blue Bird (1940), and in some three dozen other films.
Al Shean was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Shean started his acting career landing roles in such films as the Gloria Swanson drama "Music in the Air" (1934), the Jack...
Al Shean was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Shean started his acting career landing roles in such films as the Gloria Swanson drama "Music in the Air" (1934), the Jack Benny comedy "It's in the Air" (1935) and "Traveling Saleslady" (1935) with Joan Blondell.
