Lilian Roth

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Lillian Roth (December 13, 1910 - May 12, 1980) was an American singer and actress and noted performer on Broadway. Roth's given name was Lillian Rutstein and she was named after actress Lillian Russell. Lillian was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1916 her mother took her to Educational Pictures. She became the company's trademark, symbolized by a living statue holding a lamp of knowledge. The following year she made her Broadway debut in "The Inner Man". Her motion picture debut came in 1918 in "Pershing's Crusaders". She was known as Broadway's youngest star. Together with her sister, Ann, she toured as "Lillian Roth and Co." At times the two were billed "The Roth Kids". One of the most exciting moments for her came when she met President Woodrow Wilson. Source: "Whatever Became of...? Vol. III 1970." Lillian entered the Clark School of Concentration in the early 1920s. She appeared in "Artists and Models" in 1923 and went on to make "Revels" with Frank Fay. During production for the former she told management she was nineteen years of age. When she was seventeen the youth made the first of three Earl Carroll Vanities with Ray Dooley. This production was soon followed by "Midnight Frolics", a Flo Ziegfeld feature. Soon the young actress signed a contract for seven years with Paramount. Among the films she appeared in include The Love Parade (1929), with Maurice Chevalier, Paramount On Parade (1930), Honey (1930), Madame Satan (1930) with Reginald Denny, and the classic

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