Florenz Ames

A relative newcomer to television at a time when most people would be looking toward retirement Florenz Ames started out as a song and dance man in vaudeville often performing on smaller stages with his wife Alice Adelaide Winthrop as Ames and Winthrop they appeared in a revue called Alice in Blunderland with Winthrop in the title role and Ames playing the other roles He moved onto the Broadway stage and appeared in a number of shows from before World War I until the Korean War including the original productions of Of Thee I Sing and Oklahoma as well as a number of Gilbert Sullivan operas