To: dennisw
He was born Christian Rudolph Ebsen in Belleville, Ill., on April 2, 1908. His father owned a dancing school, where the nicknamed Buddy learned the fundamentals. The family moved to Orlando, Fla., when the boy was 10, and he began pre-medical studies at the University of Florida and Rollins College. But family financial problems forced him to leave school and, at 20, he decided to try his luck as a dancer in New York.
"I arrived in New York with $26.25 in my pocket and a letter of introduction to a friend of a friend's cousin," he recalled. "I got a job in a road company, but the producer said, `That boy one foot taller than the rest of 'em - out!'"
29 posted on
07/07/2003 5:27:17 AM PDT by
dennisw
(G-d is at war with Amalek for all generations)
To: dennisw
Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed!
32 posted on
07/07/2003 5:30:39 AM PDT by
Thebaddog
(Fetch this!)
To: dennisw
He was the real thing, he'll be missed.
He was born Christian Rudolph Ebsen in Belleville, Ill., on April 2, 1908. His father owned a dancing school, where the nicknamed Buddy learned the fundamentals. The family moved to Orlando, Fla., when the boy was 10, and he began pre-medical studies at the University of Florida and Rollins College. But family financial problems forced him to leave school and, at 20, he decided to try his luck as a dancer in New York.
36 posted on
07/07/2003 5:37:43 AM PDT by
GOPJ
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