{{short description|American actress}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Beryl Wallace | image = Beryl Wallace De Mirjian.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Wallace in the 1920s | birth_name = Beatrice Heischuber | birth_date = {{birth date|1912|09|29}} | birth_place = [[Brooklyn, New York]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1948|6|17|1912|09|29}} | death_place = [[Aristes, Pennsylvania]], U.S. | resting_place = [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park]], [[Glendale, California]], U.S. | occupation = Singer, actress, dancer | years_active = 1928–1948 }}
'''Beryl Wallace''' (born '''Beatrice Heischuber''';<ref>{{cite news |title=Beryl Wallace Will Provides for Mother |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22919808/beryl_wallace/ |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=July 3, 1948 |location=California, Los Angeles |page=3|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|accessdate = August 18, 2018}} {{Open access}}</ref> September 29, 1912 – June 17, 1948) was an American singer, dancer and actress.
==Biography== Wallace was born in [[Brooklyn, New York]], the second of nine children of working class [[Jew]]ish immigrants from [[Austria]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Beryl Wallace Volcanic Venus |first=Laura |last=Wagner |magazine=[[Films of the Golden Age]] |issue=88 |pages=9–10 |date=Spring 2017}}</ref>
Pursuing a dancing career, she was in her teens when she saw a casting call advertisement in the [[newspaper]] and landed a role in the 1928 [[Earl Carroll]] [[Broadway theatre]] production of ''[[The Earl Carroll Vanities|Vanities]]'' that was billed as having the "most beautiful girls in the world".
She adopted the surname "Wallace" as her [[stage name]] and went on to appear in six similar risqué productions that featured scanty costumes for the female performers and full nudity for the first time on Broadway. {{citation needed|date=September 2014}}
Beryl Wallace and producer Earl Carroll began a personal relationship that would take them to [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] where she would perform in film and at his [[Earl Carroll Theatre#Sunset Boulevard|Earl Carroll Theatre]]. The theatre-[[supper club]]'s facade was adorned by what at the time was one of Hollywood's most famous [[landmark]]s: a {{convert|20|ft|m|adj=on}}-high [[neon]] facial portrait of Beryl Wallace of which a [http://images2.laweekly.com/imager/sign-to-the-earl-carroll-theater-now-on-d/u/original/4207698/earl_carrol.jpg recreation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171206164334/https://images2.laweekly.com/imager/sign-to-the-earl-carroll-theater-now-on-d/u/original/4207698/earl_carrol.jpg |date=December 6, 2017 }} can be seen today at [[Universal CityWalk]], at [[Universal City, California|Universal City]], as part of the collection of historic neon signs from the [[Museum of Neon Art]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lahtf.org/earlcarroll-10-2017/ |title=Earl Carroll Theatre |website=Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation |access-date=December 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214130451/http://www.lahtf.org/earlcarroll-10-2017/ |archive-date=December 14, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Beryl Wallace made her film debut in 1934 in an uncredited role in the [[Paramount Pictures]] film production of Carroll's Broadway play ''[[Murder at the Vanities]]''. She went on to appear in a number of small roles until 1937, when she co-starred in the [[Monogram Pictures]] "[[B-movie|B]]" [[Western film]] production of ''Romance of the Rockies'' with [[Tom Keene (actor)|Tom Keene]]. This led to another co-starring role in the 1938 film, ''Air Devils''.
In the early 1940s she continued appearing in bit parts, but also had good secondary roles in [[Republic Pictures]] "B" Westerns starring the likes of [[Roy Rogers]] and [[Richard Dix (actor)|Richard Dix]]. While acting in twenty-two films over a ten-year period, Wallace's primary job was as a star entertainer at Earl Carroll's theatre.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-12-me-then12-story.html |title='Body Merchant' Packed Them In |first=Cecilia |last=Rasmussen |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=February 12, 2006}}</ref>
During [[World War II]], Wallace sang weekly on two 15-minute radio shows and on Monday evenings hosted a half-hour entertainment show on [[NBC]] radio called ''Furlough Fun''. In addition to helping entertain soldiers at the [[Masquers Club]], on Sunday afternoons she was a volunteer dancer at the [[Hollywood Canteen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/282/Beryl+Wallace/index.html |title=Beryl Wallace Profile |first=Cheryl |last=Messina |website=Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen |access-date=December 14, 2017}}</ref>
==Death== On June 17, 1948, while en route from Los Angeles to New York City, Beryl Wallace and [[Earl Carroll]] died in the crash of [[United Airlines Flight 624]] in [[Aristes, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19480618&id=BUgzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pu4HAAAAIBAJ&pg=6411,5976246 |title=Airliner Crash Takes Lives of 43 Persons |agency=[[United Press International]] |newspaper=[[Lodi News-Sentinel]] |page=1 |date=June 18, 1948}}</ref> They were interred together in the Garden of Memory at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale|Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California]].<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25047-25048). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref>
==Broadway performances== * ''[[Earl Carroll's Vanities]]'' (1940) * ''[[The Women (play)|The Women]]'' (1936) * ''[[Earl Carroll's Sketch Book]]'' (1935) * ''[[Murder at the Vanities]]'' (1934) * ''Earl Carroll's Vanities'' (1932) * ''Earl Carroll's Vanities'' (1931) * ''Earl Carroll's Vanities'' (1930) * ''Earl Carroll's Vanities'' (1928)
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==External links== * {{IBDB name}} * {{IMDb name|0908537}} * {{Find a Grave|5174}}
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