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|
Stage Name |
Birth Name |
| Beryl
Wallace |
Beryl
Heischuber |
|
Dancer and Actress, was the oldest of nine
children of Austrian immigrants Harry and Fanny Heischuber. Beryl
was popular in the nightclubs and did a few movies before her
untimely death in an DC-6 airplane crash (FLIGHT #624) when it
hit a powerline in Mount Carmel, PA. and exploded, which killed
her and forty-two others including Earl Carroll.
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Earl Carroll gave Beryl her big break in 1927 when he hired her
to dance in his New York Vanities in 1928. Beryl and Earl would
become very close over the years, and formed an intimate relationship
(carroll was married) with Beryl as well as headlining at his Restaurant
in Hollywood, CA. which also featured a twenty foot neon sign of
Beryl. Beryl and Earl Carroll are buried together, due to his requesting
in his will. |
