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American actress (1891-1959) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rose King (born Rose Koenig, in St Louis, MO, 1891-1958, was an American film actress and a Broadway lead.
In her long career on Broadway, stretching from at least 1919 to 1942, she starred in High Kickers, Thumbs Up!, The Torch Bearers, and A la Carte, among other productions.[1] As an actor, she had an occasional Hollywood fling. For example, she made five silent films in 1909, including The Necklace and The Seventh Day both co-starring Mary Pickford (and both directed by D.W. Griffith).[2]
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Most of Rose King's theatrical career was in partnership with B. M. "Chick" York. Their most famous and durable vaudeville act was "The Old Family Tintype". The team dated its inception at 1907 (in a 1937 radio interview they were "celebrating 30 years in show business"),[3] although their relationship dated from early childhood. Billboard Magazine published an old photo of York and King posing together, at the ages of five and three, respectively.[4]
York and King created many amusing vaudeville routines, and developed an international following. They headlined many vaudeville bills in the United States and England.[5]
In 1935 they starred in two short-subject comedy films produced by Educational Pictures in New York: Domestic Bliss-ters and How Am I Doing, the latter featuring their famous vaudeville sketch "The Sleigh Ride". King appeared solo in a character role in Educational's 1938 comedy Love and Onions.
"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, and that's sufficient." - Rose King
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