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    Oliver Morosco (June 20, 1875 – August 25, 1945) was an American theatrical producer, director, writer, film producer, and theater owner. He owned the...
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    was produced by Oliver Morosco. The production opened at the Majestic Theatre in Los Angeles on March 31, 1913. By September 1913 Morosco deemed it not...
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    45th Street, the Morosco Theatre was designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp for the Shubert family, who constructed it for Oliver Morosco in gratitude for...
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  • The Morosco Photoplay Company was created in 1914 by Frank Garbutt. It was named for Oliver Morosco. In 1916, it was acquired by Famous Players–Lasky...
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    theater within a decade of its opening. Ames leased the theater to Oliver Morosco in 1919 and to John Golden in 1922. The New York Times bought the theater...
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    English swimmer Oliver Morosco (1875–1945), American theatrical producer Oliver Morris (1916–1944), Welsh rugby league footballer Oliver Morris (gymnast) (1886–...
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    Baum Oliver Morosco March 31, 1913 The final version of The Rainbow's Daughter, now with music by Louis F. Gottschalk, as produced by Oliver Morosco. Morosco...
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    modest success in Hollywood that producer Oliver Morosco decided did not do well enough to take to Broadway. Morosco, incidentally, quickly turned to film...
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    broke up when Greenwood was hired for the Winter Garden Revue. In 1913, Oliver Morosco cast her as Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo late in the run of L. Frank...
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    America. For eight years, he held the role as leading man with the Oliver Morosco Stock Company in Los Angeles. In 1912, Stone found success in the popular...
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    musical play by Baum, Louis F. Gottschalk, Victor Schertzinger, and Oliver Morosco. The role of Tik-Tok was a straight man role similar to that of David...
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    Richard III. The following year, she participated in productions by Oliver Morosco and David Belasco. By the age of 7, Daniels had her first starring role...
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    worked as a songwriter, adding three songs with lyrics by producer Oliver Morosco to L. Frank Baum and Louis F. Gottschalk's musical, The Tik-Tok Man...
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    F. Gottschalk, and Victor Schertzinger, produced in Los Angeles by Oliver Morosco. In the play, he sings a duet with Polychrome titled "When in Trouble...
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    Wild Olive is a lost 1915 American drama silent film directed by Oscar Apfel and written by Elmer Blaney Harris, Basil King and Oliver Morosco. The film...
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    distributed by Warner Bros. The film was directed by Walter Morosco, the son of theater owner Oliver Morosco, and based on a play by Charles Harris. Irene Rich...
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  • The Yankee Girl is a 1915 silent film comedy produced by Oliver Morosco, distributed by Paramount Pictures and starring Blanche Ring, from the Broadway...
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    Lady Be Good!" In 1918, he starred in, stage-managed and rewrote an Oliver Morosco-Elmer Harris-Harry Plani production titled Look Pleasant, playing at...
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  • directed by Hobart Bosworth and written by Elmer Blaney Harris and Oliver Morosco. The film stars Fritzi Scheff, Louis Bennison, Forrest Stanley, Owen...
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    August 1900 had its thirteenth manager. The new manager's name was Oliver Morosco, who was already known as a successful theatrical impresario. He put...
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  • Pallas logo was a capital "P" with an owl on a branch. Pallas and the Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company were associated and produced films at the same studio...
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    toured the Orpheum Circuit with Walter C. Kelly. Theatrical producer Oliver Morosco offered him a role in the original Broadway play Upstairs and Down in...
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    holding company for its subsidiaries- Famous Players, Feature Play, Oliver Morosco Photoplay, Bosworth, Cardinal, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Artcraft...
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    Burke, whom he married in 1914. New York entertainment entrepreneur Oliver Morosco cast Held in the lead for Madame la Presidente in 1916. According to...
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    (1913), by L. Frank Baum, Louis F. Gottschalk, Victor Schertzinger and Oliver Morosco. In the early 1910s Morton appeared in a vaudeville and burlesque duo...
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    Wallace Reid and Myrtle Stedman. It was produced by Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company (Oliver Morosco) and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Wallace Reid...
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    the time, when 100 performances constituted a hit. In 1913, Cort gave Oliver Morosco the exclusive rights to show plays at his namesake theater for five...
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    A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council president Neal McDonough, actor Oliver Morosco, theatrical producer, director, writer and theater owner. Bill Simmons...
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  • the son of theater impresario Oliver Morosco, and grandson of Walter M. Morosco (1846–1901), proprietor of the Morosco's Grand Opera House in San Francisco...
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    1912 play The Seven Sisters, opposite Laurette Taylor, directed by Oliver Morosco. (1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S1E7) “Breakdown" as Hubka (1958)...
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