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Blossom Seeley

Blossom Seeley was one of the greatest vaudeville singers, an equal in talent and billing to Nora Bayes and Sophie Tucker.  Blossom began as a child performer and worked San Francisco's Barbary Coast as a ragtime singer. Her strutting and finger-snapping, syncopated rhythms gave distinction to her act and she was enticed eastward to New York, the center of big-time vaudeville and musical revues. She worked solo in vaudeville and with her husbands.  Joe Kane was one and Rube Marquard, the top flight pitcher for the New York Giants was another.  Benny Fields came next and he was to be Blossom’s lasting partner on stage and off. Seeley made a couple of films, appeared on radio and seemed to be content to fade away in tune and time with vaudeville. After Benny Field’s early death in 1959, Blossom tried a comeback, appearing on the Ed Sullivan TV show.  Although she could still sing well in her seventies and eighties, and was still a captivating performer, her era and her audience were gone.


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Born:
Movie/TV Credits:
5
First Appeared:
In the movie Mr. Broadway 1933-09-12
Latest Project:
Series The Ed Sullivan Show 1948-06-20
Known For
Poster of The Ed Sullivan Show
Poster of All-Star Vaudeville
Poster of Blood Money
Poster of Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Filmography
Series The Ed Sullivan Show Unknown 1948-06-20
Movie All-Star Vaudeville Herself 1935-04-26
Movie Mr. Broadway Blossom Seeley 1933-09-12
Movie Blood Money Singer 1933-11-17
Movie Broadway Thru a Keyhole Sybil Smith 1933-11-02