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Gustave Edwards (August 18, 1878 [1] – November 7, 1945) was an American composer, songwriter and film director. He also was a vaudevillian, organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher. Early life. Edwards was the son of Morris and Johanna Simon. [2] .
Known as “The Star Maker” for his discoveries of Groucho Marx, Walter Winchell, Eddie Cantor and George Jessel, songwriter and vaudeville legend Gus Edwards was born in Hohensalza, Prussia on August 18, 1879.
Gustave Edwards was an American composer, songwriter and film director. He also was a vaudevillian, organised his own theatre companies and was a music publishe...
Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organized his own theatre companies and was a music publisher. In 1896, Edwards was just seventeen years old when he debuted in The Newsboys Quintet act. In 1898, while performing in this act, Edwards wrote his first song, to a lyric by Tom Daly, "All I Want Is My Black Baby Back."
Nov 17, 2017 · Gus Visser’s act included a “singing” duck that quacked in tune with his musical performance. Ethel Purtle performed “death-defying” motorcycle tricks with a lion seated in her sidecar. Comedy and novelty — and thrills — were amongst vaudeville’s most defining features that set it apart from traditional theatre.
He founded the Gus Edwards Music Hall in New York, and also his own publishing company, then produced special subjects for films, and returned to vaudeville between 1930 and 1937, finally retiring in 1939.
Composer, songwriter ("School Days", "Tammany", "In My Merry Oldsmobile") and producer, a charter member of ASCAP (1914) and brother of Leo Edwards, and the uncle of Joan and Jack Edwards. He was a vaudeville singer, and later had his own vaudeville company.
