The Brox Sisters were an American trio of singing sisters, enjoying their greatest popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s.
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The family name was "Brock", and changed to "Brox" for theater marquees.
They grew up in Tennessee and performed with Southern accents.
Their career began touring on Vaudeville in the United States and Canada in the 1910s. They hit it big on Broadway at the start of the 1920s. They moved to Los Angeles in the late 1920s. The act broke up in the early 1930s as the sisters got married; they made their last professional reunion appearance on radio in 1939.
The trio performed on Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue from 1921 to 1924, at the New York Theatre. Berlin's hit song "Everybody Step" was written for and debuted by the sisters.[1].
In 1925 and 1926, they performed on Broadway in the musical comedy The Cocoanuts, with the Marx Brothers. In 1927, they appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 at the New Amsterdam Theatre with comedian Eddie Cantor.
The Brox Sisters were among the earliest artists to appear on Vitaphone sound shorts in the late 1920s.
In 1929, they appeared in the film The Hollywood Revue of 1929, performing the songs "Singin' in the Rain" with Cliff Edwards and "Strike Up the Band" in the finale of the first act.
In 1930, the sisters appeared in the film King of Jazz. They performed the song "A Bench in the Park", with Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, and with The Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and Al Rinker). In that year they also appeared in the film Spring Is Here in which they performed the song "Crying for the Carolines".
They perform "Falling in Love Again" in the movie Hollywood on Parade (1932).
The sisters also made radio broadcasts in the 1920s. They recorded a series of phonograph records for Brunswick Records and Victor Records, as well as appearing on sides for Columbia.