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	Al Shean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Al Shean (May 12, 1868 in Germany - August 12, 1949) was the stage name for comedian Albert Schönberg.
		After making a name for himself in Vaudeville, Shean teamed up with Edward Gallagher to create the act Gallagher and Shean.
		Shean's son, also named Al Shean, worked on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_Shean (127 words)

	Gallagher and Shean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gallagher and Shean was a highly successful double-act on Vaudeville and Broadway in the 1910s and 1920s, consisting of Edward Gallagher (1873 - March 28, 1929) and Al Shean (real name Albert Schoenberg) (May 12, 1868 - August 12, 1949).
		The case claimed that Gallagher and Shean's act was "unique and irreplaceable." The comedians' defense was that their act was a mediocrity and the judge initially found in their favor, although the decision was later reversed.
		Shean was also uncle to the Marx Brothers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gallagher_and_Shean (268 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Al Shean : Biography
		Shean." Of more significance to the film world, Shean was the younger brother of Minnie Marx, who in turn was the mother of the Marx Brothers.
		When the merry Marxes were struggling in vaudeville in the World War I years, it was Uncle Al Shean who wrote several of the team's best and most popular sketches; he also decided that Harpo Marx would be a more effective comedian if he didn't try to speak on stage.
		The Marx Brothers returned the favor by seeing to it that the aging, impecunious Al Shean was cast in substantial character roles in such MGM films as San Francisco (1936), The Great Waltz (1938), and Ziegfeld Girl (1941).
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/57320/bio.jhtml (212 words)

	MARXOLOGY - Mr Gallagher and Mr Shean
		As cousins of Al Shean, the young Hamburg sisters of The New York Wonder Kiddies reportedly had the only rights to sing the original verses of Mr Gallagher and Mr Shean as they were used in the Follies.
		Al Shean, born Adolph Schönberg and younger brother of the Marx Brothers' mother Minnie, was together with Edward Gallagher one of most famous male teams in Vaudeville.
		Gallagher and Shean's signature costumes came from the Follies number which was set in Egypt, reflecting the "Egyptian craze" of the early 1920s that was also evident in early I'll Say She Is-numbers like In The Sheik's Tent and The Wonderful Nile.
	web.telia.com /~u66005454/shean.htm (515 words)

	Sample Lyric: Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean
		The comedy team of Ed Gallagher & Al Shean performed this song in vaudeville beginning in 1920.
		The tall, lanky Gallagher wore a pith helmet, while the short and rotund Shean wore a fez.
		This is the lyric as transcribed from a 1922 recording by Gallagher and Shean.
	www.musicals101.com /lygallagher.htm (115 words)

	Al Shean: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The updated page can be found at: al shean
		After making a name for himself in Vaudeville (Vaudeville: A variety show with songs and comic acts etc.), Shean teamed up with Edward Gallagher (Edward Gallagher: edward gallagher (1873 - may 28, 1929) was a vaudeville actor and half the act...
		Shean's son, also named Al Shean, worked on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show: the rocky and bullwinkle show is the collective name for two separate american television...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/al_shean (189 words)

	The Marx Brothers NEW YORK WONDER KIDDIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As cousins of Al Shean they had the only rights to sing the original verses of Mr Gallagher and Mr Shean as they were used in the Follies (according to Michigan-newspaper The Jackson News).
		Hazel and Ernestine, the original imitators of Gallagher & Shean, are twins, and sisters to Mildred, oldest of the five kiddies.
		They are cousins of Al Shean, original of the song, and have the only rights to sing the original verses as they were used in the Follies.
	web.telia.com /~u66005454/kiddies.htm (548 words)

	Features » Recording of the Month » Absolutely Mr. Shean by Ed Gallagher and Al Shean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Their double-sided eponomously-titled hit smash of 1922 was such a phenomenon that it was covered by a wide number of artists, including the future Happiness Boys, Billy Jones and Ernie Hare.
		Upon their wild success, the Shuberts sued for breach of contract and left Gallagher and Shean in the peculiar position of having to argue before a court that they were not especially talented and that the Shuberts had not lost anything by not having them on their roster of artists.
		The case was decided against Gallagher and Shean, and the Shuberts promptly took the team on the road.
	www.archeophone.com /features/recordings/1102.php (307 words)

	Peer-led and adult-led school health education: a critical review of available comparative research -- Mellanby et al. ...
		for in the analysis; and Armstrong et al.
		Armstrong, B. K., de Klerk, N. H., Shean, R. E., Dunn, D. and Dolin, P. (1990) Influence of education and advertising on the uptake of smoking by children.
		Shean, R. E., de Klerk, N. H., Armstrong, B. and Walker, N. (1994) Seven year follow-up of a smoking-prevention program for children.
	her.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/15/5/533 (4076 words)

	1922: An Angel's Voice I Hear - Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The phenom of 1922 was "Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean," featured in Ziegfeld's Follies of 1922 and performed in hit recordings by a number of artists, including two very different versions included here.
		One is by the originators, Ed Gallagher and Al Shean (listen to the less-known "B" side of their big hit in our November Recording of the Month"), and the second is by Jones and Hare, who recorded it for both Brunswick and Okeh.
		Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean Billy Jones and Ernest Hare
	www.venerablemusic.com /catalog/TitleDetails.asp?TitleID=7458 (500 words)

	The Marx Brothers at Reel Classics: Article - A Quarter of a Century with the Marx Brothers
		Their uncle, Al Shean (of Gallagher and Shean fame), was playing in Chicago in "Friendly Enemies" at the Woods theatre, and the mad Marxians were playing in small-time vaudeville in and around Chicago.
		Marx, herself a mimic of no small ability, who asked Al Shean to write a big-time vaudeville act for his nephews.
		They introduced it at Freeport, Ill., in 1917, and Shean's understanding of the public demand was grounded in such fine showmanship that they became a big-time vaudeville act almost overnight.
	www.reelclassics.com /Teams/MarxBros/marxbros-article.htm (1069 words)

	Harpo Speaks - Harpo Marx with Rowland Barber
		But their "particular kind of Marxist philosophy" as James Thurber calls it in Let Your Mind Alone, was the machinery of comic genius rather than the political.
		Minnie Marx worked hard to help her brother Al Shean become a vaudeville star, half of the team of Gallegher and Shean.
		It was Uncle Al Shean who later suggested that Harpo concentrate on pantomime, no spoken lines at all.
	www.troynovant.com /Franson/Marx-Brothers/Harpo-Speaks.html (1005 words)

	Showman Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. Was Born
		E. Meeker and S. Porter performing "Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean," 1922
		Shean, words and music; Meeker, Edward and Steve Porter, performers.
		Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies, Library of Congress.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/recon/ziegfeld_4 (160 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Al Shean : Main
		German-born vaudeville entertainer Al Shean entered show business folklore as one-half of the comedy team of Gallagher and Shean.
		Few people can remember the team's jokes or routines, but many can recite from memory the duo's signature song, "Absolutely, Mr.
		Shean." Of more significance to the film worl...
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/57320/personmain.jhtml (88 words)

	Marx Brothers, Bio
		sister to Al Shean, of Gallagher and Shean fame, put Groucho on the stage as a boy
		their Uncle Al Shean, they refined (bad word for Marx) their characters.
		Italian accent, and Gummo and Zeppo became the comic foils.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/4337/mbbio.htm (769 words)

	MMD Archives Subject Index for: Shean
		Al Shean of "Gallagher and Shean", from Randolph Herr
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	mmd.foxtail.com /Archives/KWIC/S/shean.html (95 words)

	all about arie kaplan - wizards of wit part 1
		Jews such as Jack Pearl, who played radio's Baron Munchausen, and Al Shean of the comedy team "Gallagher and Shean" performed on the radio and in vaudeville, often wearing the accoutrements of the baggy-pants clown.
		Longtime MAD magazine writer/cartoonist Al Jaffee, for example, had been relegated to kiddie comic books before the war, but after 1945 he started to get magazine work for publications such as Trump, Humbug, and The Realist.
		MAD made its debut in 1952 as a comic book (it became a magazine in 1955 to avoid censorship) founded by Jewish "red diaper baby" Harvey Kurtzman, an eccentric iconoclast who inspired fierce loyalty among his admirers.
	www.ariekaplan.com /wizardspart1.html (3436 words)

	Class Act: Composers: "S"
		When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You)
		Shean" routine, co-authored and performed by his one-time partner, Ed Gallagher.
		Now's the Time to Fall in Love (Potatoes Are Cheaper, Tomatoes Are Cheaper)
	www.classicmoviemusicals.com /comps.htm (1126 words)

	Class Act: Music: "M" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Written by Al Dubin and Harry Warren, 1935
		Written by Grant Clarke, Al Jolson and Louis Silvers
		Ziegfeld Girl (performed by Charles Winninger and Al Shean), 1941
	www.classicmoviemusicals.com /musicm.htm (5738 words)

	Hear Harpo Talking!
		Uncle Al Shean (of Gallagher and Shean fame)
		Harpo was rather upset that Uncle Al neglected
		Uncle Al said "Ok, ok, go right ahead."
	www.harpomarx.net /talking.html (568 words)

	Silent Era : PSFL : [Gallagher and Shean] (1925)
		Silent Era : PSFL : [Gallagher and Shean] (1925)
		A growing source of silent era film information.
		Silent Era Home Page > PSFL > [Gallagher and Shean] (1925)
	www.silentera.com /PSFL/data/G/GallagherandShean1925.html (85 words)

	MMD Archives Subject Index for: Al
		Seek Piano Mover, St. Louis MO to Blairsville AL, from D. Bullock
		Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson in Blackface, from Mark Forer
		Sanfilippo et al Collections Book, from Don Teach
	mmd.foxtail.com /Archives/KWIC/A/al.html (138 words)

	Early 1900's Humor Recordings from Victrola
		If You Saw All That I Saw In Arkansas Performed by Collins and Harlan
		Gallagher?" Performed by Ed Gallagher - Al Shean
		Shean!" Performed by Ed Gallagher - Al Shean
	www.besmark.com /humor.html (362 words)

	Silent Era : PSFL : Carson and Shean (1926)
		Silent Era : PSFL : Carson and Shean (1926)
		Silent Era Home Page > PSFL > Carson and Shean (1926)
		Silent Era Home Page > PSFL > Carson and Shean (1926)
	www.silentera.com /PSFL/data/C/CarsonandShean1926.html (71 words)

	Movie Database - tvguide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Song Score.
		Best Original Song Score - Rod McKuen (Music & Lyrics), John Scott Trotter (Music), Bill Melendez (Lyrics), Al Shean (Lyrics), Vince Guaraldi (Adaptation)
		Copyright © 2006 TV Guide Magazine Group, Inc.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=21193 (111 words)

	Find in a Library: Originals - Musical comedy, 1909-1935
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		by Blanche Ring; Nora Bayes; Jack Norworth; Al Jolson; Elsie Janis; Edith Day; Fanny Brice; Ed Gallagher; Al Shean; Noble Sissle; Eubie Blake; Beatrice Lillie; J Harold Murry; Louise Groody; Charles King; Eddie Cantor; Helen Morgan; Cole Porter; Libby Holman; Eleanor Powell
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