Researching Leonard Sillman
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 99 people with the Sillman surname? In that year Sillman was ranked number 3480 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Leonard means "like a lion" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Leonard Sillman on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Leonard Sillman and the Sillman Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sillman Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Sillman family tree.
Search Parish Records for Leonard Sillman at Find My Past.
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Sillman Genealogy Databases
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Leonard Sillman. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Leonard Sillman
Leonard Sillman
Leonard Sillman (May 9, 1908 - January 23, 1982) was an American Broadway producer. Born in Detroit, Michigan on May 9, 1908, he was the brother of June Carroll, the brother-in-law of Sidney Carroll and the uncle of Steve Reich and Jonathan Carroll. He produced a series of musical revues, Leonard Sillman's New Faces, which introduced many major stars to Broadway audiences, such as Eartha Kitt, Inga Swenson, John Lund, Van Johnson, Carol Lawrence, Madeline Kahn, Paul Lynde and Maggie Smith. Versions of New Faces were produced in 1934, 1936 (made into the film New Faces of 1937), 1943, 1952 (made into the film New Faces), 1956, 1962 and 1968. The very first New Faces in 1934 included actors Henry Fonda, Imogene Coca and Frances Dewey Wormser. Songwriter Arthur Siegel, who contributed many songs to the New Faces series and radio show, described Sillman's philosophy: "He believed that a revue should be a potpourri, a bouillabaisse, in which there was something for everyone. Pace was very important. He didn't want to give an audience a chance to think about what it just saw. The music had to be nonstop." Sillman also produced many other plays from the 1930s into the late 1960s, including All in Fun (1940), Mask and Gown (1957) and the Family Way (1965). His autobiography Here Lies Leonard Sillman: Straightened Out at Last was published by the Citadel Press in 1959.
Sillman died on January 23, 1982 in New York City.
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