Buster West

[1] One of the stars of that show was another eccentric dancer, Tom Patricola, with whom West would star in short comedies made by the Educational Film Corporation of America, one of the lower-tier production companies in the film industry's Poverty Row.

West's television career consisted of two appearances as a dancer on The Frank Sinatra Show in 1951, and appeared in single episodes on Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Lucy Show in the 1960s.

In 1944, he co-starred with Jackie Gleason in the musical Follow the Girls, a smash hit that ran for 888 performances.

His next (and last) Broadway appearance was in another smash, The Pajama Game, when he replaced Eddie Foy Jr. in one of the leads.

West was married to the acrobatic dancer and film actress Lucille Page, with whom he appeared with in vaudeville in Berdell and Wellington and in the short Moonlight and Melody (1935).