Background
Burns was born on Mott Street in the Manhattan Chinatown of New York City He was the son of Harry and Dora Burns of Brooklyn.
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David Burns
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He made his Broadway debut in 1921 in Polly Preferred and went to London with the show in 1924. His first musical was Face the Music in 1932, Cole Porter"s Nymph Errant (1936) was his London debut, and he appeared in many comedies and musicals over an almost 50-year career. Burns introduced the hit song "lieutenant Takes a Woman" from Hello, Dolly as the original "Horace Vandergelder".
He died on stage, of a heart attack, in Philadelphia during the out-of-town tryout of Kander and Ebb"s musical 70, Girls, 70.
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American