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Al Shean, Sam J. Curtis, Arthur F. Williams, Ed C. Mack - The Original Manhattan Comedy Four in "It's Nudding" 1898-99. Shean was born in Dornum, Kingdom of Prussia on May 12, 1868, the son of Fanny and Levi or Louis Schoenberg. His father was a magician.
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.
- January 1, 1
- New York City, New York, USA
- January 1, 1
- 1.68 m
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...
- 53 min
- 754
- Flickers
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. Actor: The Blue Bird. 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).
- May 12, 1868
- August 12, 1949
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. He is most remembered for being half of the vaudeville team Gallagher and Shean, and as the uncle of the Marx ...
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Other articles where Al Shean is discussed: Gallagher and Shean: …the act of “Gallagher and Shean.” They went separate ways from 1914 to 1920, but in the latter year (at the urging of Shean’s sister Minnie Marx, mother of the Marx Brothers) they rejoined to star in the Shubert Brothers’ Cinderella on Broadway, with huge success.
