Theodore Rauch married Clara Kahan in the Bronx on July 6, 1924. Their first child, Harold, was followed by William Sidney on July 27, 1927.<\/p>\n
Rauch made a good living owning a pharmacy. By the 1930s the family had moved to 136-05 Sanford Ave. in Flushing, apartment 4G.<\/p>\n
Harold became a biology teacher but William changed his name to Will Jordan and became a nightclub entertainer by the age of 21.<\/p>\n
For a quarter of a century, \u201cThe Ed Sullivan Show\u201d was a must-see Sunday night TV show. Sullivan had a wooden, awkward physical presence. It was not meant to be funny, but Jordan created a comic version of him for the big screen.<\/p>\n
Sullivan appeared as himself in a handful of films, but after he died in 1974, Jordan did his imitation of him in six movies, starting with \u201cI Want To Hold Your Hand\u201d in 1978.<\/p>\n
He put on a wonderful show. As one commenter said on a Dead Comedians Society Facebook post about Jordan, \u201cMost \u2018Sullivan\u2019 impressions are\/were impressions of Will Jordan\u2019s version of Sullivan.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jordan passed away on Sept. 6, 2018, at age 91. He is buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Glendale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Theodore Rauch married Clara Kahan in the Bronx on July 6, 1924. Their first child, Harold, was followed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64084,9,24,17712,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-154713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-i_have_often_walked","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-north","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}