Eddie Vitch

Ignace Levkovitch (né Lewkowitz; April 6, 1903 – September 1, 1986), known as Eddie Vitch, was a Polish-born comic entertainer and caricaturist.

In 1931, after changing his name to Eddie Vitch, he approached the Hollywood Brown Derby owner, Robert H. Cobb, and offered to draw caricatures of the famous patrons who dined at the restaurant.

[1] In a very short time, Vitch drew hundreds of pictures of Hollywood stars, and the Brown Derby became famous for the caricatures which adorned its walls.

In 1934 he returned to Europe, and appeared as a comic mime performer in cabaret alongside such stars as Edith Piaf, Maurice Chevalier and Josephine Baker.

His career took off during this time and he performed with the Folies Bergère,[3] Paris, in the Berlin Wintergarten theatre, the Hippodrome, London and the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen.