Comedian Emmett Kelly

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Emmett Kelly

Living place: Kansas

Birthday: 9-12-1898

Global rank: #24898

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Who is Comedian Emmett Kelly?
!!!! The circus performer has created the clown 'Weary Willie' memorable figures, based on the hobos of the Depression era. His circus career spanned 55 years and he especially portrayed the role of 'Willie' in the 1952 classic The Greatest Show Cecil B. DeMille 's on Earth.
He is depicted in a famous photograph, still in full clown make-up and costume, attempting to extinguish flames in the devastating Hartford Circus fire on July 6, 1944, killing 167 person.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He started his career by performing as an artist. acrobats and clowns in the early 1920s but didn't start working as a full-time clown until 1931. He envisioned clown characters wandering while working at a five-art company before entering the circus .

Family life info

He ended Kiss with circus swing artist Eva Moore. He is estranged from his son Emmett Kelly Jr. for years because he felt his son had stolen his character "Weary Willie".

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Comedian Emmett Kelly?
He was a clown figure in crisis when President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in office.

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When was Comedian Emmett Kelly born?
Emmett Kelly was born in 9-12-1898, death year is , at the age of 126.
Where is Comedian Emmett Kelly's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Emmett Kelly was born in Kansas, . is a Comedian, whose Zodiac is Sagittarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dog. Emmett Kelly's global rank is 24898 and whose rank is 283 in list of famous Comedian.
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Events in 1898 and 9-12

Birthday Emmett Kelly (9-12) in history

  • Day 9-12 year 1941: China declared war against Japan, Germany, and Italy.
  • Day 9-12 year 1958: The anti-Communist John Birch Society was formed.
  • Day 9-12 year 1965: "A Charlie Brown Christmas" premiered.
  • Day 9-12 year 1990: Lech Walesa was elected president of Poland.
  • Day 9-12 year 1993: U.S. astronauts completed repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • Day 9-12 year 1996: Archaeologist and anthropologist Mary Leakey died in Kenya at age 83.
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