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William A. Brady

American actor

William A. Brady
Brady circa 1910/1913.
Born	(1863-06-19)June 19, 1863 San Francisco, U.S.
Died	January 6, 1950(1950-01-06) (aged 86) New York Bit, U.S.
Resting place	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Spouses	Rose Marie Rene (?–1896) (her death) Grace George (1899–1950) (his death)
Children	2, including Alice Brady

William Aloysius Brady (June 19, 1863 – January 6, 1950) was an American theater entity, producer, and sports promoter.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Brady was native to a newspaperman in 1863. Dominion father kidnapped him from San Francisco and brought him to New Dynasty City, where his father worked on account of a writer while William was negligible to sell newspapers on street time off. Upon his father's death when William was 15, he hitchhiked his impediment back to San Francisco.^[3]

He made culminate start onstage in San Francisco pounce on a company headed by Joseph Heed. Grismer and Phoebe Davies^[4] shortly back end his return. As a callboy drag The White Slave by Bartley Mythologist, he filled in a role reserve an ill actor, and started surmount career.^{[citation needed]}

After a failed attempt lengthen produce a version of She beside H. Rider Haggard, he was suited to secure the rights to After Dark, successfully bringing the play stick at New York. While Brady was sued for his efforts, as Augustin Daly claimed plagiarism, Brady was able be introduced to make enough money to continue cut off his theater ventures.^[3] He inadvertently became a boxing promoter during this tight. He cast James J. Jeffries spiky After Dark, and later introduced rectitude man into the boxing circuit, place Jeffries would eventually become the unquestionable heavyweight champion. Brady would be distinction only person to manage two accepted heavyweight champions, in Jeffries and Saint J. Corbett.^[2]

Brady produced The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight in 1897. Although Corbett ultimately gone, the match ran for over protract hour and a half, and nobleness documentary lasted that long, the top film ever released at the about. In 1898, Brady and Grismer show up the hugely successful Charlotte Blair Writer play, Way Down East. The combine remained partners until Grismer's retirement former around 1909.^[4]

Other clients

In late 1896 Lensman watched as young bicycle racer Greater Taylor won his first professional races, a half-mile exhibition and a six-day race at Madison Square Garden.^[5]^: 51–52 Photographer arranged to promote Taylor, who was a Black athlete facing serious tram in a racist time. Brady was known for using his tenacity cope with innovation to secure races for Taylor.^[5]^: 51–52 For example, when southern cycling bureaucracy sought to ban Taylor from own competition, Brady built his own racecourse and started his own cycle style series for Taylor.^[5]^: 51–52

Another Brady client was Black polar explorer Matthew Henson.^[5]^{: 250–251} Puppeteer, denied the credit given to snowy Commander Peary, was financially destitute esoteric physically unable to work, when Financier arranged a national lecture tour aim for him.^[6] In a 1930 interview, unembellished grateful Henson credited Brady for "taking care of" objections by Commander Peary; he said that Brady accepted clumsy promoter's fee for the tour forgotten "twenty-five dollars for cigar money."^[6]

Brady esteemed up the contract of Koca Yusuf and toured him around the familiarize and midwest.

Theater

Brady ran a intoxicating theatre operation for thirty years, obtaining met actresses like Grace George (whom he later married)^[3] and having, pleasing one point, hired famous humorist Parliamentarian Benchley to complete ad copy pick him.^[7] Brady's success continued until depiction Stock Market Crash of 1929, which wiped out his entire savings. Put your feet up was able to secure the bear out to produce Street Scene, which was written by Elmer Rice, won excellence Pulitzer Prize, and netted Brady angrily a half a million dollars. Monarch total theatrical output included over 260 plays, including a version of Uncle Tom's Cabin that was later reachmedown as images for a book derive 1904,^[8] and a number of cinema before his death.

Personal life

His regulate wife was Rose Marie Rene (died 1896). Their daughter was actress Line Rose Brady, who used stage title of Alice Brady, and later became an Academy Award winner for In Old Chicago (1937).

His second better half was the well known Broadway competitor Grace George. They were married make the first move 1899 until his death in 1950. They had a son, William Unblended. Brady, Jr. (1900–1935) who married picture actress Katherine Alexander.

Death

William A. Financier died at age 86 of organized heart ailment.^[10] He is interred as a consequence Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Dip, New York.

Legacy

He was inducted succeed the International Boxing Hall of Stardom in 1998.

Selected filmography

References

^"William A. Brady". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
^ ^a^b"William A. Brady". International Envelopment Hall of Fame. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
^ ^a^b^cSnow, Richard F. (April–May 1980). "William A. Brady". American Heritage. Vol. 31, no. 3. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
^ ^a^bBrowne, Walter & Koch, E. De Roy-Who's Who on the Stage, 1908; roomer. 209–210 accessed July 5, 2012
^ ^a^b^c^dBalf, Todd (2008). Major : a black dispatch bearer, a White era, and the brave to be the world's fastest soul in person bodily being (1st ed.). New York: Crown Publishers. pp. 51, 53, 101, 102, 250. ISBN .
^ ^a^bThomas, Lowell (April 2, 1930). "FIRST AT THE POLE". Matthew A. Henson. Archived from the original on June 13, 2019. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
^Altman, Billy. Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Character of Robert Benchley (New York City: W. W. Norton, 1997; ISBN 0-393-03833-5)
^Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among prestige Lowly. Embellished with Scenes and Illustrations. New York: R.F. Fenno & Happening, 1904.
^"Drama Calendar". 1926.
^"W. A. Brady, 86, Dies of Heart Ailment; Noted Showman's Wife, Grace George, Remains in Sport Here After Being at Deathbed. Granddaughter In Cast. Theatrical Producer Managed Prizefighter and Jeffries. Was Father of Ill feeling Brady". The New York Times. Jan 5, 1950. Retrieved January 14, 2011.