Originally posted in 2009 MAY IRWIN, "Madame Laughter" Mae Irwin spent her career alternating between the legit theatre and vaudeville, but her most lasting legacy is the fact that she is one of the first vaudevillians (make that one of the first people) preserved on celluloid, in the 1895 flicker The Kiss. The film captured her for a […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:15PM on June 27, 2013