Beryl Wallace

Beryl Wallace (born Beatrice Heischuber;^[1] September 29, 1912 – June 17, 1948) was an American singer, dancer and actress.

Biography

Wallace was born in

Pursuing a dancing career, she was in her teens when she saw a casting call advertisement in the newspaper and landed a role in the 1928 Earl Carroll Broadway theatre production of Vanities that was billed as having the "most beautiful girls in the world".

She adopted the surname "Wallace" as her stage name and went on to appear in six similar risqué productions that featured scanty costumes for the female performers and full nudity for the first time on Broadway. ^{[citation needed]}

Beryl Wallace and producer Earl Carroll began a personal relationship that would take them to Hollywood where she would perform in film and at his Earl Carroll Theatre. The theatre-supper club's facade was adorned by what at the time was one of Hollywood's most famous landmarks: a 20-foot (6.1 m)-high neon facial portrait of Beryl Wallace of which a recreation Archived December 6, 2017, at the Wayback Machine can be seen today at Universal CityWalk, at Universal City, as part of the collection of historic neon signs from the Museum of Neon Art.^[3]

Beryl Wallace made her film debut in 1934 in an uncredited role in the

During World War II, Wallace sang weekly on two 15-minute radio shows and on Monday evenings hosted a half-hour entertainment show on NBC radio called Furlough Fun. In addition to helping entertain soldiers at the Masquers Club, on Sunday afternoons she was a volunteer dancer at the Hollywood Canteen.^[5]

Death

On June 17, 1948, while en route from Los Angeles to New York City, Beryl Wallace and

• Earl Carroll's Vanities
  (1940)
• The Women (1936)
• Earl Carroll's Sketch Book (1935)
• Murder at the Vanities (1934)
• Earl Carroll's Vanities (1932)
• Earl Carroll's Vanities (1931)
• Earl Carroll's Vanities (1930)
• Earl Carroll's Vanities (1928)

References