biography
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| Vaudeville comedy partners and theatrical producers: Joseph (Morris) Weber (1867–1942) and Lew(is Maurice) Fields (1867–1941), both born in New York City, New York, USA. Starting together as schoolboys in the Lower East Side, they perfected a long-running act (1877–1904) that involved song-and-dance, dialect, slapstick, and sometimes blackface routines in which Fields was the bullying partner and Weber the fall-guy - the inspiration for many such duos as Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello. At their peak they co-managed Weber and Fields Music Hall, parodying serious plays and musicals. Splitting in 1904, they took up again in 1912 and went on to musicals and even films, but never regained their original popularity. |
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