Today is the birthday of that complex American phenomenon (and child vaudevillian) Walter Winchell. For his full bio go here. And here is delivering this exceptionally strange promo for Jerry Lewis’s The Bell Boy. To find out more about the history of vaudeville, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, available [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:18AM on April 7, 2012