Opera singer and actor
Jules Bledsoe, when he was appearing in Showboat
at the National Theater in Washington, D.C., February 1930—Born in Waco,
Bledsoe studied music in Chicago, Paris, and Rome. After his first Broadway
hit, Showboat, he sang in Europe and became well known. In his career
he
performed in operas, musicals, and motion pictures; he was also a pianist
and
composer. Bledsoe was just 45 years old and at the peak of his career when
he died unexpectedly in Hollywood in 1943.
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