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Prior to this, any female nudity in Broadway revues such as the Ziegfeld Follies featured women in static displays similar to tableaux vivants, which were considered acceptable and not censored. [1] Although the performers in Artists and Models were purportedly playing the roles of artists' models, the shows "emphasized girls in various stages ...
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.
The Belle of Broadway (1926) by Harry O. Hoyt. The Belle of Broadway is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Harry O. Hoyt and starred Betty Compson. [1] [2] [3] The film was released as part of Columbia Classics Volume 5 on Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray Disc on October 22, 2024 ...
A total of 465 homes, churches, and businesses were demolished between Broadway/E. 37th Street and Broadway/Gallup Avenue, [40] including St. Wenceslas Church (which closed in 1962). [27] [100] Construction began in April 1964, [101] and the north-south I-77 portion of the interchange completed in November 1965. [102]
Blackbirds of 1926, also known as Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1926 was a musical revue with an all African American cast created and produced by impresario Lew Leslie that starred Florence Mills, Edith Wilson, and Johnny Hudgins, with music by George W. Meyer and Arthur Johnston, and lyrics by Grant Clarke and Roy Turk.
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]
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.
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]