# Introducing Bert Williams

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- Authors: [Camille Forbes](https://www.bookquiver.com/camille-forbes)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2010-03-23

## Description

According to critics of his time, Bert Williams was the Greatest Comedian on the American Stage." A black Bahamian immigrant, Williams made his start as a barker advertising the rough-and-tumble medicine shows" that dotted the Wild West at the end of the nineteenth century. Not long after joining a minstrel troupe and donning the burnt- cork makeup of blackface, he teamed up with African American George Walker in a sixteen-year partnership that would take them from rural western mining towns to the bright lights of Broadway. In Introducing Bert Williams , historian Camille Forbes reveals a fascinating figure, initiating the reader into the vivid world of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular entertainment. Williams's long and varied career is a whirlwind of drama, glamour, and ambition,nothing less than the birth of American show business.

## Editions

### Introducing Bert Williams

- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6501-811-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2010-03-23
- Language: en_GB