1. Blanche Ring was an American singer and actress in Broadway theatre productions, musicals, and Hollywood motion pictures.
23 Facts About Blanche Ring
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Blanche Ring's father was a comedian for 30 years and her grandfather James H Ring, was a leading comedian of the Boston Museum company.
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Blanche Ring's great-great-grandfather, Charles Fisher, was an actor and came to the United States from England.
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Blanche Ring journeyed with theatrical caravans as far west as the Mississippi River.
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Blanche Ring's grandmother was Julie Fisher, a celebrated actress of her time.
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The Blanche Ring sisters' younger brother, Cyril, was a freelance actor.
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Blanche Ring was the first husband of actress Charlotte Greenwood.
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Blanche Ring later married Ziegfeld Follies girl Molly Green in 1923; they had two daughters.
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Miss Blanche Ring made her debut at age 16 in A Parisian Romance in 1887 with Shakespearean actor Richard Mansfield's theatrical company.
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Blanche Ring followed this with another hit song "The Belle of Avenue A", performed in Tommy Rot, which was staged at Mrs Osborn's Playhouse in New York City.
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Blanche Ring portrayed the title role in the 1914 Broadway musical When Claudia Smiles.
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Blanche Ring's impersonations were paired with those of Charles Winninger in the Passing Show of 1919, performed at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.
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Blanche Ring went to Hollywood in 1916 to star in the silent film The Yankee Girl.
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Blanche Ring has a brief role in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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In 1940, Blanche Ring appeared as one of the featured vaudeville greats in the Bing Crosby picture, If I Had My Way.
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Blanche Ring liked to entertain fellow thespians and was known for throwing house parties attended by the likes of Douglas Fairbanks and Eddie Foy Sr.
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At one time, Blanche Ring shared a home in Rye, New York with Winninger at 30 Oakland Beach Avenue where she remained until at least 1935.
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Previous to living in Rye, Blanche Ring had a country home in Mamaroneck across from the actress Ethel Barrymore and another in Larchmont at 28 Oak Avenue.
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Blanche Ring left New York in 1959 to live in Hollywood with her brother, Cyril.
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Blanche Ring was an honorary member of the Ziegfeld Club, though she never worked for Flo Ziegfeld.
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Blanche Ring died in a nursing home in Santa Monica, California in 1961, aged 89.
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Blanche Ring had been in poor health for two years following a stroke in 1958.
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Blanche Ring's interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, following a rosary which was recited in the Church of the Good Shepherd, in Beverly Hills, California.