Ted Bradford

A native of Detroit, Ted Bradford was best known in vaudeville and on the Broadway stage as an "acrobatic" or "stunt" dancer. With his partner, the diminutive Fay Adler, Bradford appeared in the George M. Cohan Broadway production of the "Merry Malones," and in the 1928 Earl Carroll Vanities. After the team broke up, Bradford was best known for getting into scrapes--for example, in 1933, he got into a fistfight with Bob Hope's brother George in New York City (Variety, 17 October 1933, 49)--and drifted until he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, where he turned his life around. He married, raised a family and became a realtor in suburban Los Angeles.