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Silent movie vamp Theda
Bara and the Lone Ranger's sidekick Jay Silverheels "Tonto" attended
high school here in the 1900’s. |
| Mickey Rooney,
whose real name was Joe Yule, Jr., began his career here on the
stage of Rochester’s Gayety Theater one winter night in 1923 at
the age of 3 with his father. |
| Betty Davis was fired from a theater
stock group in Rochester by stage director George Cukor. |
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Bud Abbot managed a theater here before
connecting up with Lou Costello. |
| Kirk
Douglas worked in a steel mill
here before his movie career started. |
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Foster Brooks, Robert
Forster, &
Mimi Kennedy all began their careers in shows for Rochester Community
Players which
is the oldest community theater group in NY State. |
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Musician
Cab Calloway was born in
Rochester in 1907, Mitch Miller in 1911, and Chuck Mangione in 1940. |
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Dr. Francis Tumuelty, a
herbal medicine quack, buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Rochester was
suspected of being Jack the Ripper.
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