The Bickersons (Dom Ameche & Frances Langford)

  • The Bickersons (Dom Ameche & Frances Langford) - The Bickersons [Columbia Records  CS 8492] (1962)

Biography

Dom Ameche

Don Ameche (born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 - December 6, 1993) was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, stock, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, which led to the offer of a movie contract from 20th Century Fox in 1935.

As a handsome, debonair leading man in 40 films over the next 14 years, he starred in comedies, dramas, and musicals. In the 1950s he worked on Broadway and in television, and was the host of NBC's International Showtime from 1961 to 1965. Returning to film work in his later years, Ameche enjoyed a fruitful revival of his career beginning with his role as a villain in Trading Places (1983) and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Cocoon (1985).

Frances Langford

Julia Frances Langford (April 4, 1913 - July 11, 2005) was an American singer and actress who was popular during the Golden Age of Radio and made film appearances for over two decades. She was known as the ''GI Nightingale,'' a forces sweetheart, who entertained troops touring often with Bob Hope.