Lillian Roth was only 6 years old when her mother took her to Educational Pictures, where she became the company's trademark, symbolized by a living statue holding a lamp of knowledge.
19 Facts About Lillian Roth
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Lillian Roth attended the Professional Children's School in New York City with classmates Ruby Keeler and Milton Berle.
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In 1917 Lillian Roth made her Broadway debut as the character "Flossie" in The Inner Man.
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Lillian Roth entered the Clark School of Concentration in the early 1920s.
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Lillian Roth appeared in Artists and Models in 1923 and went on to make Revels with Frank Fay.
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In 1927, at the age of 17, Lillian Roth returned to Broadway to perform in the first of three Earl Carroll Vanities, which was followed by Midnight Frolics, a Florenz Ziegfeld production.
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Lillian Roth took over Ethel Merman's stage role in the film version of Take a Chance, singing "Eadie Was a Lady".
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Lillian Roth headlined the Palace Theatre in New York City and performed in the Earl Carroll Vanities in 1928,1931, and 1932.
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Lillian Roth continued to make strides as a singer in an era when so much was being set to music.
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Friends accused her of forsaking Judaism; however, in her autobiography Lillian Roth explains that although her parents had believed in God, she and her sister had not been brought up religiously.
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Lillian Roth remained with the show for its full run of 301 performances and recorded the cast album for Columbia Records.
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Lillian Roth recorded four songs for the Coral label, which were followed by an LP for Epic and another for Tops.
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Lillian Roth headlined a vaudeville revival at the Palace on Broadway.
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In 1958, Lillian Roth published a second book, Beyond My Worth, which was not as successful as its predecessor, but told the compelling story of what it was like to be placed on a pedestal that she could not always live up to.
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Lillian Roth had managed to reinvent herself as a major concert and nightclub performer.
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Lillian Roth appeared at venues in Las Vegas and New York's Copacabana and was a popular attraction in Australia.
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Lillian Roth divorced her first husband in 1932 after 13 months of marriage.
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Lillian Roth returned to Broadway in 1971 in the Kander and Ebb musical 70, Girls, 70, which despite its short run was recorded by Columbia Records and has remained a popular cast album.
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Lillian Roth played a pathologist in the 1976 cult horror classic Alice, Sweet Alice.