Steve Lawrence was an American singer and actor, best known as a duo member with his wife Eydie Gormà ©, billed as "Steve and Eydie". The two have appeared together since appearing regularly on Tonight Starring Steve Allen in the mid-1950s until Gormà ©'s retirement in 2009.
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Personal life
Lawrence was born Sidney Liebowitz in the Brooklyn district of New York City to Jewish parents Victor, who owns his own bakery on White Plains Road in The Bronx, and Helen, whose mother runs the business. He attended Thomas Jefferson High School. Steve also attended PS 174 in East New York across the street and then went to PS 109 in Brownsville.
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Marriage and family
Lawrence and GormÃÆ' Â married on December 29, 1957, at the El Rancho Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. They have two sons together. David Nessim Lawrence (b.Ã, 1960) is an award-winning ASCAP Award composer who scores for High School Musical. Michael Robert Lawrence (1962-1986) died suddenly from ventricular fibrillation resulting from undiagnosed heart conditions at 23 years of age. Michael is an assistant editor for television shows at the time of his death and seems healthy despite a prior diagnosis of a bit of arrhythmia.
Gormà ©  © and Lawrence was in Atlanta, Georgia, at the time of Michael's death, having performed at the Fox Theater the night before. After learning about death, his friend Frank Sinatra sent his private plane to fly the couple to New York to meet David, who was at school then. After the death of their son, GormÃÆ' © and Lawrence took a year off before the tour again.
GormÃÆ' Â © died on August 10, 2013.
Careers
In the late 1950s, Steve Lawrence was recruited as a member of the Army and served as the official vocal vocalist with United States Army Band "Pershing's Own" in Washington, D.C..
Lawrence was successful on the charts in the late 1950s and early 1960s with hits such as "Go Away Little Girl" (US # 1), "Pretty Blue Eyes" (US # 9), "Footsteps" (US # 7), "Portrait of My Love" (US # 9), and "Party Doll" (US # 5). "Go Away Little Girl" sold over a million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. However, most of his music career is centered in nightclubs and music stands. She is also an actor, appearing in guest roles on television shows in every decade since the 1950s, in shows such as The Danny Kaye Show, The Judy Garland Show , The Carol Burnett Show The Julie Andrews Hour , Night Gallery , The Flip Wilson Show , Police Story , Murder, She's Writing, Gilmore Girl, and CSI . In the fall of 1965, Lawrence was the star of a variety show called The Steve Lawrence Show , "one of the last black and white television shows on CBS."
He and Gormà © appeared together in the Broadway Golden Rainbow musical, which lasted from February 1968 to January 1969. Although the show was not a huge success (a summary of this experience is recorded in an unattractive detail in William Goldman's 1968 book The Season ), the event contains a catchy song "I've Gotta Be Me". The song was originally sung by Lawrence at the end of the first half of the musical; Sammy Davis, Jr. will then record a version of the hit song Top 40 in 1969. Nothing less than the "Chairman of the Board" himself, Frank Sinatra, is known to have repeatedly stated that the best male vocalist he has ever heard is Steve Lawrence.
He starred as Gary McBride in the 1972 Stand Up and Be Counted film, opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Stella Stevens. In 1980, he was introduced to a new generation of fans with his role as Maury Sline at The Blues Brothers and later changed his role in the 1998 Blues Brothers 2000 sequel. His other films include Steve Martin's comedy The Lonely Guy (1984) and the Yards crime thriller (2000).
In 1984, he and comic Don Rickles hosted ABC Foul-Ups, Bleeps & amp; Blunder .
In 1985, Steve and Eydie Gorme played Tweedledee (Gorme) and Tweedledum (Lawrence) in the Irwin Allen adaptation film of "Alice in Wonderland".
He played Mark McCormick's father, Sonny Daye, in two episodes of Hardcastle and McCormick. In 1999, he emerged as the much talked about, but never really seen, Morty Fine, Fran Fine's father in the last few episodes of The Nanny . In 2011, she plays Jack, the rich love interest of Betty White's character, Elka Ostrovsky, in Hot in Cleveland. In 2014, she starred in an episode of Two and a Half Men on CBS, and sang the theme song for the Spoils of Babylon parody miniseries.
Awards
Lawrence received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and a Tony Award nomination for his performance as Sammy Glick on What Makes Sammy Run? on Broadway (1964), and two Emmy Awards, one for production for Steve & amp; Eydie Celebrates Irving Berlin (1978).
With Gormà ©, he has received two Emmys for Our Love Here to Stay, a tribute to George and Ira Gershwin; "Best Performance by Vocal Duo or Group" Grammy Award for We Got Us ; Award from the Film Advisory Board and the Television Critique Circle Award for From Now on , a homage to Cole Porter.
The duo also won the Las Vegas Entertainment Award for "Musical Variety Act of the Year" four times, three of them in a row. They were honored with a lifetime achievement award from Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in 1995 were recipients of the Ella Life Lifetime Award from the Society of Singers, a profit organization that helps professional singers with counseling and financial assistance.
Discography
References
External links
- Steve Lawrence on IMDb
- Steve Lawrence on the Internet Broadway Database
- Radio interview with Steve Lawrence "Big Band file with Doug Miles" WSLR
- http://www.45cat.com/artist/steve-lawrence/all the Steve Lawrence 45rpm catalog
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