Florenz Ames(1883-1958)
- Actor
A relative newcomer to television at a time when most people would be
looking toward retirement, Florenz Ames started out as a song and dance
man in vaudeville, often performing on smaller stages with his wife
Alice "Adelaide" Winthrop; as "Ames and Winthrop" they appeared in a
revue called "Alice in Blunderland" with Winthrop in the title role and
Ames playing the other roles. He moved onto the Broadway stage and
appeared in a number of shows from before World War I until the Korean
War, including the original productions of "Of Thee I Sing" and
"Oklahoma!" as well as a number of Gilbert & Sullivan
operas.
