Colonna, Jerry, 1904-1986
Person
Biography
Jerry Colonna; b. Sept. 17, 1904, Boston, Mass.; d. Nov. 21, 1986, Woodland Hills, Calif.; birth name: Gerardo Luigi Colonna. Comedian, composer, songwriter, author, and trombonist, educated in high school, then a trombonist with the Columbia Symphony (1931-1936)
Citation:
Internet Movie Database, Feb. 25, 2009Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention, circa 1945
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Identifier: B002.04.0215.0116.00001
Abstract
Bob Hope performing for patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's (JCRS) Convention. Tony Romano, Jerry Colonna and Vera Vague (stage name of actress Barbara Jo Anderson) are also pictured and the event was held in the Mary Harris Auditorium at the JCRS. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish working men along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. It was located on West...
Dates:
circa 1945
Bob Hope at a Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Convention, circa 1945
Item
Identifier: B063.03.0035.00037
Abstract
Bob Hope performing for patients at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's (JCRS) Convention. Tony Romano, Jerry Colonna and Vera Vague (stage name of actress Barbara Jo Anderson) are also pictured and the event was held in the Mary Harris Auditorium at the JCRS. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. The sanatorium was...
Dates:
circa 1945