Rudy Vallee
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1901-07-28
Deathday 1986-07-06 (84 years old)
Place of Birth Island Pond, Vermont, USA
Also Known As Hubert Prior Vallée
Rudy Vallee
Biography
Rudy Vallee started his career as a saxophone player and singer and later became a band leader. In the 1920s and early 30s he had a hit radio program, The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour (where he was hated by his cast and crew due to his explosive ego-driven personality). In the early 1930's he was ranked with the likes of Bing Crosby and the tragic Russ Columbo in the Hit Parade. A huge hit on radio in 1933 with his program, initially known as 'The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour,' Vallee was considered a slave driver by his staff. He was known to instigate fist fights with virtually anyone who got on his nerves. During the run of his show he slugged photographers, threw sheet music in the faces of pianists' heads and if provoked, would sock hecklers in the nose. While audiences loved him, he was hated by most of his staff. As a very popular star in night clubs and on records, as well as in movies, he helped other singers like Alice Faye - who was for a while his band singer - and Frances Langford to start their careers. In his early movies he often played the romantic lead, but he switched later to stuffy and comic parts. He also appeared on Broadway. The mid-60's Broadway hit "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" was filmed in 1967 with him in his original Broadway role.
Known For
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self
as Arthur Forbinger
as Autograph Hound
as Self (archive footage)
as Proprietor
as Alvin Winer
as Rudy Vallee
as Opening Narrator (voice)
as Louis Penlow
as Rudy Vallee
as Myron Lesser
as Jasper B. Biggley
as Lord Marmaduke Ffogg
as Self
as Self - Co-Host
as Father
as Himself
as Rudy Vallee
as Self (archive footage)
as Rudy Vallee
as Worthington Higgenmacher
as Peter Pedigrew
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Self - Panelist
as Mr. Jessup
as Charles Hingleman
as John Heaslip
as August Henshler
as Charles Harris
as Herbert Daley
as Dr. Johnson
as Self
as Tommy Chamberlain
as Lynn Sargent
as Bromley
as Hendrick Courtney Jr.
as Ormsby Jamison
as Gordon Tolliver
as Rudy Vallee
as Himself - Bandleader
as Alfred Monroe
as John D. Hackensacker III
as Dick Kerrigan
as Daniel 'Danny' Collins
as Rudy Vallee
as Roger Maxwell
as Rudy (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Terry Moore
as Skip Houston
as Himself (uncredited)
as Self
as Jimmy Martin
as Himself
as Dr. Vallee
as Self
as Singer with Handlebar Moustache
as Himself
as Self
as Rudy Bronson
Sound
as Songs
Writer
as Lyricist