At the age of 7, his father died, leaving his mother and her six children in poverty, of the children, 4 died in early years. To earn some money to support the family, Robert took odd jobs, before becoming a jockey. This career ended when the horse, Pink Star, the future Kentucky Derby winner of 1907, fell and broke Robert's leg. Robert then went ...
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The great comedy team of "Wheeler & Woolsey" are little known in the 21st century, despite their great popularity in the 1930s. One of the reasons likely is the fact that their films were not packaged and sold to television in the 1950s, unlike The Three Stooges and "Laurel & Hardy", who then went on to entertain new generations of fans. Bobby Clark wrote much of the dialogue, and it was very risqué and was considered borderline in the more liberal 1930s (at least prior to the enforcement of the 1934 Production Code). Their shorts were geared towards adults, and even in the 1930s, they were considered vulgar, and thus would have been inappropriate on television in the 1950s as the comedy shorts of the Stooges and Laurel & Hardy were programmed for children.
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical
2008
Video documentary performer: "Unidentified Tune" - uncredited
High Flyers
1937
performer: "I'm a Gaucho" 1937 - uncredited
On Again-Off Again
1937
performer: "One Happy Family" 1937
Silly Billies
1936
performer: "Tumble on Tumbleweed" 1931 - uncredited
The Nitwits
1935
"Music in My Heart" 1935 / performer: "The Black Widow's Gonna Getcha If You Don't Watch Out" - uncredited
Kentucky Kernels
1934
performer: "One Little Kiss" 1934, "Supper Song" 1934 - uncredited
Cockeyed Cavaliers
1934
performer: "And the Big Bad Wolf was Dead" 1934, "Dilly Dally" 1934 - uncredited
Hips, Hips, Hooray!
1934
"Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'" 1933, uncredited / performer: "Keep Romance Alive" 1933, "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin'" 1933 - uncredited
Diplomaniacs
1933
performer: "Ood-Gay Eye-bay" 1933, "On the Boulevard" 1933, "Sing to Me" 1933, "The Old Folks at Home Swanee River" 1851, "No More War" 1933 - uncredited
Hold 'Em Jail
1932
performer: "Jingle Bells" 1857 - uncredited
Peach-O-Reno
1931
performer: "I'm Just Wild About Harry" 1921, "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes", "Les patineurs The Skaters" - uncredited
Caught Plastered
1931
performer: "The Fountain in the Park" 1884 - uncredited
Half Shot at Sunrise
1930
performer: "NOTHING BUT LOVE" 1930 - uncredited
Dixiana
1930
performer: "A Lady Loved a Soldier", "I Am Your Baby Now" - uncredited
The Cuckoos
1930
performer: "Oh! How We Love Our Alma Mater" 1926, "I'm a Gypsy" 1930, "Good-Bye" 1926, "I Love You So Much It's a Wonder You Don't Feel It" 1930, "Sweet Adeline" 1903 - uncredited
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