Tag: George Campo
All credit goes to Betsy Baytos, this blogopedia’s resident Eccentric Dance performer, teacher, and historian, for exposing us all to the work of George Campo. The first clip she unearthed was from 1932 and was shared in my post George Campo: Continental Eccentric Dancer, which got a very enthusiastic response from a ton of people. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out first. Right now!
If you’ve ever taken a class with me, you know I’m fond of physical comedy involving chairs, tables, doors, stairs, etc., so you can imagine how happy I was to see this comedy chair piece featuring eccentric dancer George Campo. The clip is from a 1932 film, which Pathé lists as La Boite a Matalots, which I take to be a triple misspelling of La Boîte à Matelots (“Sailor’s Club”). I don’t know anything about Campo, but he does appear (if it’s the same performer) as a lead actor in the 1938 film Murder with Reservations and — 35 years after this clip! — doing a “vaudeville style act” on the Ed Sullivan Show (season 20, episode 25; Feb. 26, 1967).
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