He moved with his parents and six siblings to the United States in 1906, and settled in Boston, Massachusetts, where his mother set up a guest house after her husband died unexpectedly.

The Rascals quickly became one of vaudeville's most popular acts, and continued to appear regularly on Broadway in musicals such as Sweet and Low in 1930 as well as their own headlining shows.

[2][1] He and the Rascals appeared in Lazy Bones (1934), which was a part live action, part animated film released by Fleischer Studios as one of their Screen Songs series, the live-action short Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals (Vitaphone, 1935) and Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica School (Warner Bros., 1942) directed by Jean Negulesco.

Minevitch maintained the group based around Puleo, but moved to France in 1947 and attempted to develop other financial interests including film and nightclub productions.

[4] He helped arrange the United States distribution for his friend Jacques Tati's films Jour de fête (1949) and Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953).