Lew Leslie (born Lewis Lessinsky; April 15, 1888 – March 10, 1963) was a Jewish American writer and producer of Broadway shows. Leslie got his start in...

October 24, 1927.[citation needed] In 1928, white producer and director Lew Leslie staged the first of a popular series of Blackbirds revues, featuring such...

Leslie (disambiguation), several people Jordan Leslie (born 1991), American football player Lawrie Leslie (1935–2019), Scottish footballer Lew Leslie...

Man" all sung by Hall. Blackbirds of 1928 was the idea of impresario Lew Leslie, who planned to build the show around Florence Mills in New York City...

Adelaide Hall at Les Ambassadeurs Club in New York in January 1928 in Lew Leslie's Blackbird Revue, which opened on Broadway later that year as the highly...

Village - 26 Orangeburg Road Veterans Memorial Park Zita Johann, actress. Lew Leslie, Broadway writer and producer. George Worth, born Gyorgy Woittitz (1915–2006)...

having been terminated, Grade formed a partnership with his brother Leslie (Lew and Leslie Grade Ltd., or the Grade Organisation). That year, the brothers...

Bojangles into household names. Blackbirds of 1928 was the idea of impresario Lew Leslie, who planned to build the show around Florence Mills in New York after...

credited Shuffle Along with launching her career. After Shuffle Along, Lew Leslie, a white promoter, hired Mills and Thompson to appear nightly at the Plantation...

accident, thus ending the act. Moore wrote sketches which became part of Lew Leslie's "Blackbirds" revues as well. In 1928, Moore took time off from his vaudeville...