Jack Pearl

From Wikipedia Jack Pearl born Jack Perlman October 29 1894 December 25 1982 was a vaudeville performer and a star of early radio Born in New York Pearl made an easy transition from vaudeville to broadcasting when he introduced his character Baron Munchausen on The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air in 1932 His creation was loosely based on the Baron Münchhausen literary character As the Baron Pearl would tell farfetched stories with a comic German accent When the straight man originally Ben Bard but later Cliff Hall expressed scepticism the Baron replied with his familiar tagline and punchline Vass you dere Sharlie This catch phrase soon became part of the national lexicon Pearl played this character and others in musical revues of the 1920s and 1930s The Dancing Girl 1923 Topics of 1923 19231924 A Night in Paris 1926 Artists and Models 19271928 Pleasure Bound 1929 International Review 1930 Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 Pardon My English 1923 and All for All 1943 Pearls radio career included stints as the host of The Lucky Strike Hour 193234 and The Jack Pearl Show which ran from late 1936 through early 1937 sponsored by Raleigh and Kool Cigarettes The success of his first radio series brought him to the attention of MGM He starred as his character in one feature film Meet the Baron 1933 with Jimmy Durante Edna May Oliver ZaSu Pitts and the Three Stooges He also appears in Ben Bard and Jack Pearl 1926 a film of their vaudeville act made in the DeForest Phonofilm soundonfilm process and Hollywood Party 1934 With the cancellation of his second radio series Pearl found himself struggling for work He continued in radio with shows like Jack and Cliff 1948 and The Baron and the Bee 1952 a quiz show but he never recaptured his mid1930s fame Jack Pearl received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his radio work He died in New York in 1982