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Roger Imhof

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Imhof, Conn and Corinne toured in two comic sketches, "The Pest House" and "Surgeon Louder, U.S.A.", the latter "a military comedy" Imhof had written. "The Pest House" was "the most popular and longest running of several sketches starring the portly pair Roger Imhof and Marcel Corinne". According to an October 1920 edition of the
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In the 1902–1903 season, he first worked with longtime vaudeville partner Hugh Conn, an association that lasted into the 1920s or possibly 1930s. Marcel Corinne (1888 – 1977), sometimes spelled Coreene, joined the act sometime in the 1910s. She and Imhof married in 1913. The trio of
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Imhof began his career as a clown with the Mills Orton Circus, and as an "Irish" comedian. He "toured in vaudeville and burlesque between 1895 and 1930." By 1897, he was "teamed with Charles Osborne in a comedy contortion and burlesque acrobatics act." Around this time, he dropped an "f" from his
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film industry, apparently "as a presenter, promoter, or agent". As an actor, he appeared in films from 1932 to 1944, including
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He reportedly invested in Chicago and Los Angeles real estate, but lost most of his money in the stock market and during the
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on April 15, 1875 to Nicholas Imhoff, from Switzerland, and Susan McCluen Imhoff, from Ireland.
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Vaudeville, Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America, Volume 1
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Of the songs he composed, eleven are extant, including the 1906 "Old Broadway".
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Collections of his papers and other material are held by the
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Index


Red Lights Ahead
Rock Island, Illinois
Hollywood
Los Angeles
California
vaudeville
burlesque
circus
Rock Island, Illinois
Great Depression
Hollywood
San Francisco
Drums Along the Mohawk
The Grapes of Wrath
This Gun for Hire
Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
Green Library
(Special Collections M0611)
(MS 121)
Me and My Gal
Paddy the Next Best Thing
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case
Hoop-La
David Harum
Ever Since Eve
Sleepers East
Wild Gold
Grand Canary
Handy Andy

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