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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]
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...
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Al Shean was a German-born American performer who appeared in films such as The Blue Bird and Ziegfeld Girl. He was also a writer and a musician, and the brother of Minnie Marx and the uncle of Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, and Zeppo Marx.
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Dec 15, 2019 · From 78rpm Victor 18941 (take 4) - Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean (Al Shean-Brian Foy) by the originators Ed Gallagher-Al Shean, orchestra conducted by Nat Shilkret, recorded in...
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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.
- May 12, 1868
- August 12, 1949
Jan 21, 2015 · The original version of 'Gallagher and Shean' performed by Ed Gallagher and Al Shean. Transferred from the original His Master's Voice recording released in ...
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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.
