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waterlevel
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Here is the second view of the Albany's upper interior passenger deck. The advertising includes the Union City First National Bank Broadway & 48th Street saying it is not too late to join the 1930 Christmas Club. Next is Taft's Overland Shoe Co. in Union City and Jersey City. Loew's Jersey City Journal Square movie theater was playing "Hot For Paris" with Victor McLaglen, Fifi Dorsay, El. Brendel with a "Glorious Stage Show" from the Capital Theater on Broadway. The last line welcomes Teddy Joyce. P.W. Limouze was advertising Invest Now In Your Future Buy Real Estate In Bergen County. Now that was better advice then most people get. But then you have to remember it was the depression and who had any money to invest? The last ad was for the Park Trust Company at 4th Street & Park Avenue in Weehawken. I guess you would have to be 85 to 100 years old to remember these ads.
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Pennsy
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Hi Waterlevel,
Yes I do remember the Albany and some of her sisters. A great ride across the Hudson River to get to your NYC train, also a Hudson leading the consist, a great steamer.
As far as Fifi D'Orsay goes, I had a chance of spending an evening with her on stage, and meeting her afterwards some years ago in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles there is the "Society for the Preservation of the Vaudeville Arts". They have a theater and dinner show featuring many of the "older" stage and screen stars. Met several over the years, but Fifi was something else. An older lady, she performed to perfection and the audience fell in love with her once again. Meeting her later on, she was most courteous and generous with her time and loved to hear from her fans etc. I do not know if she is still around.
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waterlevel
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Al:
We all have our memories and it is sad to say she is no longer with us:
Fifi D'Orsay (April 16, 1904 - December 2, 1983) was an actress. Born Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier in Montreal, Quebec, as a young girl, filled with the desire to become an actress, she went to New York City. There, she found work in The Greenwich Village Follies after an audition in which she sang the song "Yes! We Have No Bananas" in French. In a burst of creativity, she told the play's director she was from Paris, France where she had worked in the Follies Bčrgere. The show's impressed director hired her, billing her as "Mademoiselle Fifi".
Fifi D'Orsay
While working in the show, she became involved with Ed Gallagher, a veteran actor who joined her in putting together a vaudeville act. After working with Gallagher and others in music halls for a few years, she headed west to Hollywood, California. There, she added the Paris name "D'Orsay" to the "Fifi" and began a career in movies, often cast as the naughty French girl from "Gay Paris."
While never a superstar, she worked hard at her craft headlining with the likes of Bing Crosby, and Buster Crabbe. For years, she kept alternating her appearances in film with continued performances in vaudeville and when age put an end to the glamour roles, she readily took jobs in television. At the age of sixty-seven, she appeared back on stage in the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, Follies.
Fifi D'Orsay passed away in Woodland Hills, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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Pennsy
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Hi,
Merci bien. C'est une Belle et Jolie Femme !!! C'est magnifique !!!
Great piece of biography. At the time I saw and met her I must admit she carried her age extremely well.
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RARITAN_CLOCKER
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....that pic of the interior of the upper deck on the "Albany" was truly nostalgic!! It brought back many memories of riding the E-L and CNJ boats back in the 60s; I still remember clearly all those advertising cards mounted amid all that elegant turn-of-the century woodwork! Thanks for sharing that really rare view!! (also, as my mother was raised in Union City in the 1920s and early 30s, I'm sure she'd remember the ads for the Union City businesses!)
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