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Born in Newark, New Jersey, Blaine was trouping in vaudeville and nightclubs while still in grade school. From 1935 through 1941 Blaine worked as a band singer; spotted by a 20th Century-Fox agent ...
Born Vivian S. Stapleton, November 21, 1921 (some sources say 1923 or 1924),in Newark, NJ; died of congestive heart failure (one source says pneumonia),December 9, 1995, in New York City. Actress. Vivian Blaine is best rememberedfor her role as the original Miss Adelaide in the hit Frank Loesser/Abe Burrows musical Guys and Dolls, for which she ...
Dec 9, 1995 · Actress, Singer. Best remembered as 'Miss Adelaide,' the young woman with a heart of gold in the 1955 Musical film Guys and Dolls, opposite Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra and Jean Simmons. Vivian Blaine worked in every aspect of show business from movies to nightclubs. She was already an accomplished nightclub performer...
This strawberry blonde musical performer put in years in variety acts and onscreen before proving her talent on Broadway. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Blaine was trouping in vaudeville and nightclubs while still in grade school. From 1935 through 1941 Blaine worked as a band singer; spotted by a...
Blaine, Vivian. ( b. 21 November 1921 in Newark, New Jersey; d. 9 December 1995 in Century City, California), actress and singer in films and plays, best remembered for her role as the long-suffering, perpetually engaged Miss Adelaide in the musical Guys and Dolls. Born Vivian Stapleton, Blaine was the only child of a hairdresser and a ...
Vivian Blaine was born Vivian Stapleton in Newark, New Jersey on November 21, 1921. Her parents divorced during her childhood, but she maintained relationships with both of them. Through her father, Lionel Stapleton, a theatrical booking agent, Blaine was exposed to the word of show business at an early age. She attended the Academy of Dramatic ...
Dec 18, 1995 · Vivian Blaine, who played Miss Adelaide, the long-suffering, perpetually engaged chorus girl, in both Broadway and film versions of "Guys and Dolls," has died at the age of 74. Her friend Edwin ...
