Manitoba, eh?!
Tell us about some of the visitors/guests/celebrities/dignitaries
who have come to our province.[Some statements below are subject to verification.]
Please send your corrections/additions to paul-armstrong@shaw.caYour comments will appear beside the name or at the bottom of this page
under 'Viewers' Comments" .
-- Stage Performances --
At Winnipeg's Pantages/Playhouse Theatre :
- Buster Keaton                 Will Rogers                        Stan Laurel
- Jack Dempsey                Spencer Tracy                  Paul Robeson
- Lawrence Olivier              Mills Bros.                        Anne Murray
- Sara Vaughan               Cheech & Chong                 Vladimir Horowitz
- Buddy Rich                    Ella Fitzgerald                    Ray Eldridge
- Loretta Lynn                 Donald O'Connor                 Tina Turner
- Dizzy Gillespie                Three Stooges                 Jascha Heifitz
- Johnny Cash                   Hank Snow                      Wayne & Shuster
- Basil Rathbone              Albert Spalding            -- others to be researched --
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At Winnipeg's Auditorium :
- Paul Robeson                 Glenn Gould                        Trapp Family Singers
- Marian Anderson                Petula Clark                   Yehudi Menuhin
- Margot Fonteyn              Artur Rubenstein               
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At Winnipeg's Bijou Theatre :
- Charlie Chaplin -- see 'Sidelights' below
                -- others to be researched --           
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At Winnipeg's Orpheum Theatre :
- Jack Benny                 Sophie Tucker                        George Jessel
-                 -- others to be researched --           
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At Winnipeg's Walker Theatre :
- Groucho Marx                 Ethyl Barrymore                        Lillian Russell
-                 -- others to be researched --           
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At Winnipeg's Amphitheatre :
- John Philip Souza               
- -- others to be researched --           
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At Winnipeg's other venues (to be researched) include:
- Marx Bros.
- Boris Karloff
- Sarah Bernhardt -- where?
- Fatty Arbuckle -- bouncer -- later to be a Hollywood star
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Houdini -- escapes (to be researched)
- Dean Gunnarson -- performing escape routines
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Hope -- many live stage performances -- see 'Sidelights' below
- Rod Stewart
- Céline Dion
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mick Jaggar & the Rolling Stones -- in concert
- Paul McCartney & Wings -- in concert
- "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his Wild West show
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Beach Boys
- Diana Ross of the Supremes
- Elton John
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sophia Loren
- ZsaZsa Gabor
- U2
- Joe Montana
-                        -- others to be researched --
-- Movie productions --
- Harrison Ford -- filming 'K-12, The Widow Maker(?)' in Gimli
- Robin Williams -- filming of movie'The Big White' (2004)
- Jennifer Lopez -- filming of movie 'Shall We Dance'(2004)
- Kevin Pollak -- filming of movie '7 Times Lucky'(2004)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brad Pitt -- filming 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' in Winnipeg [2006]
- Ellen Burstyn -- filming of The Stone Angels.
- Kate Beckinsale -- movie making
- Jeff Daniels -- movie making
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis Quaid --movie making -- performed with his band
- Ziya Zhang --movie making
- Diane Keaton -- movie filming
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Susan Sarandon -- filming of movie 'Shall We Dance'
- Richard Gere (2003) -- filming of movie 'Shall We Dance'
- Shirley MacLaine -- TV movie
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russell Crowe -- filmed 'For the Moment' in Brandon --performed with his musical group in Winnipeg
- Ben Affleck -- visiting Jennifer Lopez on set
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Seymour Hoffman :
(1) while playing the title role in the movie Capote.
(2) for this movie, he won the 2006 Best Actor award at the 2006 Academy Awards.
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Reports of visitors/hunters [to be confirmed] to Delta Marsh include:
- Clark Gable
- Robert Taylor
- Fred McMurray
- Prince Edward (later King Edward VIII) hunted at Delta Marsh in 1919 as a guest of George Galt.
- The Duke of Cornwall and York (later King George V)
- a list of other possible visitors appears under "Visitors' Comments" below
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At Winnipeg's Manitoba Theatre Centre :
- Kathleen Turner -- 'Travesties' & 'The Seagull'
- Keanu Reeves -- 'Hamlet' [1995]
- William Hurt -- 'Richard III' [2003]
- Judd Hirsch -- 'Death of a Salesman' [1997]
- Eric McCormick of 'Will and Grace' -- 'Falstaff' [1989]
- Gordon Clapp of 'NYPD Blue' -- 'Death of a Salesman' [1979]
- Paul Gross of 'Due South' -- 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' [1990]
- Andrea Martin of 'SCTV' -- 'Salvation' [1971]
- Al Waxman of 'King of Kensington' -- 'Proposals' [1999]
- Efram Zimbalist Jr. & Stephenie Zimbalist -- 'Night of the Iguana' [2004]
- Len Cariou to be researched
- Gordon Pinsent -- 'A Hatful of Rain' [1958]
- Zoe Caldwell -- 'Playboy of the Western World [1961] & 'Brecht's Mother Courage' [1965]
-- Politicians/Dignitaries --
- Winston Churchill -- guest speaker (where?)
- Queen Elizabeth II & Prince Philip -- several visits
- Prince Charles -- several visits
- King George VI & Queen Elizabeth - 1939 visit
- Princess Anne -- to be researched
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pope John II -- papal visit in 19??
- Prince Albert of Monaco -- guest of the Manitoba Club
- Prince Hussein of Jordan -- guest of the Manitoba Club
- David Wilkins