Al Shean

Abraham Eliezer Adolph Schönberg (12 de mayo de 1868 – 12 de Agosto de 1949), conocido como Al Shean, lo que a la comediante and vaudeville performer. Other sources give his birth name variously as Adolf Schönberg, Albert Schönberg, or Alfred Schönberg.[6] He is most recordado por ser half of the vaudeville equipo Gallagher and Shean, and as the uncle of the Marx Brothers. Shean was born en Dornum, Germany, on 12 de mayo de 1868, the son of Fanny and Levi or Louis Schoenberg. His father was a mago. His sister, Minnie, casada con Sam "Frenchie" Marx; their children would become the Marx Brothers. After making a name for himself en vaudeville, Shean teamed up with Edward Gallagher to create the act Gallagher and Shean en the 1920s. While the act realizó correctamente, the men apparently did not like each other much. After their act's final Ziegfeld Follies emparejamiento, Shean went on to perform solo en ocho espectáculos de Broadway, even playing the title character in Father Malachy's Miracle. Shean had some solo la película roles: as the piano player, conocido como "el Profesor" en San Francisco (1936), as a priest en hitler's Loco (1943), as abuelo en The Blue Bird (1940), and some three dozen other films. He and Gallagher así made an early sonido de la película at the Theodore Case studio en Auburn, Nueva York, en 1925. He died on 12 de Agosto de 1949.