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It is a fictionalized biography of the life of major league pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander. It includes Alexander's heroic performance in three games in the 1926 World Series against the New York Yankees , where the seventh inning strikeout of Tony Lazzeri is used as the game-ending, Series-winning pitch.
Grover Cleveland Alexander (February 26, 1887 – November 4, 1950), nicknamed "Old Pete" and "Alexander the Great", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He played from 1911 through 1930 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and St. Louis Cardinals. In 1938, Alexander was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame. [1]
The Silver Cord is a 1933 American pre-Code film produced and released by RKO Radio Pictures, and directed by John Cromwell.It was based on the 1926 Broadway play The Silver Cord by Sidney Howard that starred Laura Hope Crews as an overly possessive mother.
Broadway is a 1926 Broadway play produced by Jed Harris and written and directed by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. It was Abbott's first big hit on his way to becoming "the most famous play doctor of all time" after he "rejiggered" Dunning's play. [ 1 ]
The musical debuted on Broadway in 1964 with Barbra Streisand playing Brice, Roger DeKoven as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and Brice's son-in-law Ray Stark producing. The 1968 Columbia Pictures film adaptation featuring Streisand reprising her role as Brice and Walter Pidgeon as Ziegfeld was the year's top-grossing movie. [16]
Bare Facts of 1926 is a Broadway musical revue with lyrics by Henry Myers, music by Charles M. Schwab, and a book by Stuart Hamill. It premiered on July 16, 1926, at the Triangle Theatre, and closed on October 1, 1926, after a total 107 performances.
The site has a frontage of about 278 feet (85 m) along Broadway, [3] [4] 160 feet (49 m) along Beaver Street, and 204 feet (62 m) along New Street. [ 4 ] Nearby buildings include 2 Broadway to the south; 1 Broadway and the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House to the southwest; and the Charging Bull sculpture, Bowling Green Offices Building ...
The Girl Friend opened on Broadway at the Vanderbilt Theatre on March 17, 1926, and closed on December 27, 1926, after 301 performances. Produced by Lew Fields (Herbert's father), staged by John Harwood with musical staging by Jack Haskell, the cast starred Sammy White, Eva Puck and June Cochrane.