Blossom Seeley

Biography

Blossom Seeley was one of the greatest vaudeville singers, an equal in talent and billing to Nora Bayes and Sophie Tucker. Blossom began as a child performer and worked San Francisco's Barbary Coast as a ragtime singer. Her strutting and finger-snapping, syncopated rhythms gave distinction to her act and she was enticed eastward to New York, the center of big-time vaudeville and musical revues. She worked solo in vaudeville and with her husbands. Joe Kane was one and Rube Marquard, the top flight pitcher for the New York Giants was another. Benny Fields came next and he was to be Blossom’s lasting partner on stage and off. Seeley made a couple of films, appeared on radio and seemed to be content to fade away in tune and time with vaudeville. After Benny Field’s early death in 1959, Blossom tried a comeback, appearing on the Ed Sullivan TV show. Although she could still sing well in her seventies and eighties, and was still a captivating performer, her era and her audience were gone.

Known For

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self

Blood Money

Singer

Broadway Thru a Keyhole

Sybil Smith

Mr. Broadway

Blossom Seeley

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
1935	All-Star Vaudeville	Herself
1933	Blood Money	Singer
1933	Mr. Broadway	Blossom Seeley
1933	Broadway Thru a Keyhole	Sybil Smith
1927	Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields	Self - Vocals

Year	TV Show	Role
1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self