Nan Halperin was a Russian immigrant to the USA who became a well-known singing comedian.
15 Facts About Nan Halperin
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Nan Halperin played in vaudeville at an early age, and later starred in musical comedies on Broadway such as Little Jessie James.
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Nan Halperin was born in Odessa, Russia, in 1898, and moved with her family to the USA in 1900.
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Nan Halperin's parents were Samuel Halperin, a confectioner, and Rebeka Rose Halperin.
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Nan Halperin performed in stock companies throughout the western United States and Mexico.
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Nan Halperin married the songwriter and vaudeville producer William Barr Friedlander, who composed all the songs she used in her act.
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Nan Halperin became a singing comedian who satirized the manners of the typical American woman.
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Nan Halperin was one of the first women to cut her hair into a bob.
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In 1916 Nan Halperin received a three-year contract from the United Booking Office, the first vaudeville performer to gain such a contract, in which she would be directly managed by Edward Franklin Albee II.
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Nan Halperin starred in the musical comedy The Frivolities of 1919 and in the drama The Girl in the Stage Box.
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Between 13 April and 1 July 1922 Halperin headlined with Eddie Cantor, J Harold Murray and Lew Hearn in the revue Make It Snappy, which ran for about 90 performances at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway.
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Nan Halperin starred in the musical farce Little Jessie James, which opened on 15 August 1923 at the Longacre Theatre in New York.
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Nan Halperin regularly spoke and sang on radio, where she enacted famous historical women from Lucrezia Borgia to Martha Washington.
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Nan Halperin divorced her first husband William Barr Friedlander, and married Ben Thomson on 21 December 1927.
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Nan Halperin died on 30 May 1963 on Long Island, New York.