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    David Belasco (July 25, 1853 – May 14, 1931) was an American theatrical producer, impresario, director, and playwright. He was the first writer to adapt...
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    1907 and designed by architect George Keister for impresario David Belasco. The Belasco Theatre has 1,016 seats across three levels and has been operated...
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    Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti. Long's version was dramatized by David Belasco as the one-act play Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan, which, after...
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    in New York City in 1884. Henry deMille frequently collaborated with David Belasco in playwriting; their best-known collaborations included "The Wife"...
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    prepares to commit suicide. The story interested American playwright David Belasco who collaborated with Long on a one-act adaption. Madame Butterfly:...
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    cousin of actors Walter Belasco and David Belasco. He died from a heart attack on May 1, 1949, in Santa Monica, California. "Jay Belasco". AFI. Retrieved November...
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  • the play of the same name by Roi Cooper Megrue, produced in 1916 by David Belasco. Additional cast members include T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, and Ruth...
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  • Belasco is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: David Belasco (1853–1931), playwright David James (David Belasco, 1839–1893), English comic...
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  • lead on the Belasco project. The venue was originally called the Doheny Theatre but was renamed in honor of New York playwright David Belasco during the...
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    silent-film and early sound era. Discovered in 1913 by theater director David Belasco, who would go on to manage her stage career, she was noted for portraying...
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    Madame Butterfly (play) (category Plays by David Belasco)
    Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan is a play in one act by David Belasco adapted from John Luther Long's 1898 short story "Madame Butterfly". It premiered...
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  • play written by Alice Bradley, directed by David Belasco and produced by Belasco and his son-in-law David Elliott. It is known for its unconventional...
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    by William C. deMille, whose brother, Cecil, appeared in the cast. David Belasco, the producer of the play, insisted that Gladys Smith assume the stage...
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    on New York's Broadway, he co-starred with Mrs. Leslie Carter in the David Belasco production of The Heart of Maryland. Four years later in the 1899 theatrical...
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    Golden West by the American author David Belasco. Fanciulla followed Madama Butterfly, which was also based on a Belasco play. The opera has fewer of the...
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  • an LGBT Chinese film Men and Women (play), an 1890 play written by David Belasco Men and Women (newspaper supplement), a defunct glossy supplement for...
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    an Inch of his Life with David Belasco (1879) Marriage by Moonlight with David Belasco (1879) Hearts of Oak with David Belasco (1879); from "The Mariner's...
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    Mercy Otis Warren George Aiken Nathaniel Bannister James Nelson Barker David Belasco Eva Best Robert Montgomery Bird George H. Boker Dion Boucicault John...
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    in 1909 in Leo Ditrichstein's Is Matrimony a Failure?, produced by David Belasco, and then she played stock. This was followed by The Gamblers (1910)...
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    until dying in 1915, and Daniel Frohman subsequently partnered with David Belasco to show productions at the theater until 1930. Afterward, Frohman lost...
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    David James (born David Belasco; 1839 – 2 October 1893) was an English comic actor and one of the founders of London's Vaudeville Theatre. He was born...
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    Other friends in the business included Zasu Pitts, Louis Calhern, David Belasco and Alla Nazimova. Her last role on Broadway, was in 1928, with Walter...
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    based on the 1923 Broadway stage production Laugh, Clown, Laugh by David Belasco and Tom Cushing, which in turn was based on the 1919 play Ridi, Pagliaccio...
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    The Girl of the Golden West (play) (category Plays by David Belasco)
    produced and directed by David Belasco, set in the California Gold Rush. The four-act melodrama opened at the old Belasco Theatre in New York on November...
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    in 1919 and 1920. The play was adapted into a silent film in 1923 by David Belasco, the producer of the Broadway play, as The Gold Diggers, starring Hope...
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    1934 Girl o' My Dreams Track star Don Cooper Ray McCarey Based on a David Belasco play; Chaney sings a song 1935 Captain Hurricane Dave Charles Kerr Uncredited...
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    Broadway for nine months and 197 performances. At the suggestion of David Belasco, Ruby changed her name to Barbara Stanwyck by combining the first name...
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  • Chances is a 1916 play written by Roi Cooper Megrue and produced by David Belasco. It opened 8 August 1916 at the George M. Cohan's Theatre and closed...
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  • Till Allingham Hearts of Oak (1879 play), a play by James Herne and David Belasco Hearts of Oak (1914 film), a 1914 film directed by Wray Physioc Hearts...
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    first D. Frohman/Belasco production. Editha's Burglar, Frances Hodgson Burnett and George Flemine, 9/19/1887. The Wife, David Belasco and Henry DeMille...
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