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Gildersleeve on Broadway is a 1943 American comedy film starring Harold Peary as his radio character The Great Gildersleeve. [1] It is the third of four Gildersleeve features, others were The Great Gildersleeve (1942), Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943), Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944).
Best Foot Forward is a 1943 American musical film adapted from the 1941 Broadway musical comedy of the same title.The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Edward Buzzell, and starred Lucille Ball, William Gaxton, Virginia Weidler, Chill Wills, June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, and Nancy Walker.
Gold Diggers of 1935 is an American Warner Bros. musical film directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley, his directorial debut.It stars Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, and Alice Brady, and features Hugh Herbert, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Joseph Cawthorn, Grant Mitchell, Dorothy Dare, and Winifred Shaw.
Best Foot Forward is a 1941 musical with songs by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, and a book by John Cecil Holm.Produced by George Abbott, the production opened on Broadway on October 1, 1941, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre after an out-of-town tryout, where it ran for 326 performances.
Plain and Fancy is a musical comedy with a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, lyrics by Arnold Horwitt, and music by Albert Hague.One of the first depictions of an Amish community in American pop culture, it includes a traditional barn raising and an old-fashioned country wedding.
Leap of Faith is a stage musical based on the 1992 American movie of the same name, which starred Steve Martin.The music is by Alan Menken, with lyrics by Glenn Slater and a book by Janus Cercone and Warren Leight about a con man posing as a man of faith, who is redeemed by the love of a good woman.
) This was the first New York production to use the double revolving stage for the songs and sketches. [6] [7] Although it had incomparable dancing by Fred and Adele Astaire, it was the last time the brother and sister team appeared together. In 2011, Lost Musicals, aka The Lost Musicals Charitable Trust, presented the UK premier of The Band ...
[4] Another New York Times writer noted that "If there's a point 'The Act' underscores most, it's that Miss Minnelli on Broadway has incomparable star power." [1] With an all-time ticket-price high of $25 for Saturday night orchestra seats, The Act had $2 million in advance sales, [1] then the highest in Broadway history. But the production was ...