![]() We occasionally show images depicting the practice, or refer to it in our writing, because it is necessary to tell the story of American show business, which like the history of humanity, is a mix of good and bad. **Obligatory Disclaimer: It is the official position of this blog that Caucasians-in-Blackface is NEVER okay. To learn more about vaudeville consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous , available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever nutty books are sold. and Australia, and appeared together in the Broadway revue The Midnight Rounders of 1921. In 1929 they preserved their act in the Vitaphone short Dooley’s the Name (titled after Dooley ’s catchphrase). In addition to the U.S., they also took their act to the U.K. The team paired up some time before 1910. I found a reference to him playing Proctor’s 23rd Street as early as 1903.Ĭorinne Sales (no relation to Chic Sale) was Dooley’s wife in addition to being his comedy partner, and seems to have been noted for her singing as well as her comedy. According to Harry Jolson’s biography Mistah Jolson, it was Dooley who suggested to his brother Al that he black up for the bell-hop part in Jolson, Palmer and Jolson. He was no relation to the Dooley Family, whose most famous member was Ray Dooley. Francis Dooley, originally a blackface** comedy monologist (The J. Their act is constantly referred to in reviews as “fresh”, “original”, “surprising”. But he conceded “I wish we’d had their talent”. In Have Tux, Will Travel, Bob Hope’s Own Story as Told to Pete Martin, Hope claims that the pair were famous for milking applause and stealing additional bows. I know they went over big with both audiences and critics. I have only been able to glean scraps about them thus far. ![]() Dooley and Sales were a popular, big time, headlining male-female comedy team in the teens and twenties. ![]()
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