Al Shean

Abraham Eliézer Adolph Schönberg (12 mai 1868 – 12 Août 1949), known as Al Shean, ce qui a comedian and vaudeville performer. Other sources give his birth nom variously as Adolf Schönberg, Albert Schönberg, or Alfred Schönberg.[6] He is most remembered for being half of the vaudeville équipe Gallagher and Shean, and as the uncle of the Marx Brothers. Shean was born in Dornum, Germany, on 12 May 1868, the son of Fanny and Levi or Louis Schoenberg. His father was a magician. His sister, Minnie, married Sam "Frenchie" de Marx; their children would become the Marx Brothers. After making a name for himself dans le vaudeville, Shean teamed up with Edward Gallagher to create the act Gallagher and Shean in the 1920s. While the act qui successful, the men apparently did not like each other much. After their act's final Ziegfeld Follies de couplage, Shean went on to perform solo dans eight Broadway, even playing the title character dans Father Malachy's Miracle. Shean had some solo film roles: as the piano player, known as "The Professor" à San Francisco (1936), as-a-priest dans Hitler s Madman (1943), l'as grand-père dans The Blue Bird (1940), and in some three dozen other film. He and Gallagher donc made an early son film at the Theodore Case studio à Auburn, New York, en 1925. He died on 12 Août 1949.