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What best describes a minstrel show?
Minstrels was the term for musicians - singers, dancers, comedians and instrumentalists, frequently all the same person - who traveled singly or in groups and performed publicly in medieval Europe. Their shows were popular because their songs told stories of unfamiliar places, or of events in other places; the availability of public entertainment in the Middle Ages, in Europe, was comparatively limited and wandering minstrels not only provided entertainment but also brought news and, sometimes, goods, from places they'd visited. So the arrival in town of wandering minstrels was warmly welcomed as a great source of fun as well as of information.American minstrel shows, in the 1800s and the early part of the 1900s, featured white musicians wearing blackface makeup in order to imitate black people; the performances were usually derogatory of black people, and though they did celebrate the popular concept that black people were, generally, excellent musicians, they also presented a false picture of the life lived by black people in those times. These shows were popular because of their happy, infectious music and dancing, and also because they gave audiences the opportunity to laugh at jokes made at the expense of another group of people; this is historically the basis for a great deal of public entertainment, and the American minstrel shows took their name from medieval minstrels because of the similarity of their performances.
What actors and actresses appeared in Hollywood Varieties - 1950?
The cast of Harvey - 1950 includes: Polly Bailey as Mrs. Krausmeyer Clem Bevans as Mr. Herman Shimelplatzer Don Brodie as Mailman Nana Bryant as Mrs. Hazel Chumley Aileen Carlyle as Mrs. Tewksbury Sally Corner as Mrs. Cummings Gino Corrado as Eccentric Man Jack Curtis Peggy Dow as Miss Kelly Charles Drake as Dr. Sanderson Pat Flaherty as Policeman Wallace Ford as The Taxi Driver Eula Guy as Mrs. Johnson - Maid Who Quits Grayce Hampton as Mrs. Strickleberger Harry Hines as Mr. Meegles Victoria Horne as Myrtle Mae Simmons Josephine Hull as Veta Louise Simmons Cecil Kellaway as Dr. Chumley Norman Leavitt as Henry Riley - Cab Driver Edwin Max as First Bar Patron Grayce Mills as Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet Ida Moore as Mrs. McGiff Fess Parker as Voice of Leslie the Chauffeur Maudie Prickett as Elvira the Cook Almira Sessions as Mrs. Halsey Ruthelma Stevens as Miss LaFay James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd Leo Sulky Minerva Urecal as Nurse Dunphy Billy Wayne as Man in Car Dick Wessel as Mr. Cracker Jesse White as Wilson Sam Wolfe as Mr. Minninger
