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    Alfred Drake (October 7, 1914[citation needed] – July 25, 1992) was an American actor and singer. Born as Alfred Capurro in New York City, the son of parents...
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    Tom Drake (born Alfred Sinclair Alderdice; August 5, 1918 – August 11, 1982) was an American actor. Drake made films starting in 1940 and continuing until...
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  • Bill, who runs afoul of some gangsters. The original production starred Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk and Harold Lang. Kiss Me, Kate was Porter's...
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    Stockwell was also a noted Broadway performer. In 1943, he succeeded Alfred Drake as Curly, the lead role in Broadway's Oklahoma!  He remained in the role...
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    Alfred George Drake VC (10 December 1893 – 23 November 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for...
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  • the poet reflects on the fleetingness of "The Sands of Time". Hajj – Alfred Drake The Wazir of Police – Henry Calvin Lalume – Joan Diener The Caliph –...
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  • the Shrew. It was sung in the show by Patricia Morison, reprised by Alfred Drake, and further popularized by Patti Page in 1949. The Page recording was...
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    which ran for only 55 performances. Among the other cast members was Alfred Drake, who, years later, would star opposite Morison in the Broadway hit Kiss...
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  • featured in the 1940 Broadway revue Two for the Show, where it was sung by Alfred Drake and Frances Comstock. In Two for the Show, this was a rare serious moment...
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    Brian d'Arcy James Raul Julia 3 nominations Len Cariou Michael Cerveris Alfred Drake Joel Grey George Hearn Gregory Hines Richard Kiley Nathan Lane Brian...
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  • Gabrielle Drake (born 30 March 1944) is a British actress. She appeared in the 1970s in television series The Brothers and UFO. In the early 1970s she...
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  • Chevalier, its original performer. It opened and closed the 1958 film Gigi. Alfred Drake performed the song in the 1973 Broadway stage production of Gigi, and...
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    Donald Drake Hogestyn (/ˈhʌdʒstən/) (born September 29, 1953) is an American actor best known for his long running role as John Black on the American...
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  • directed by Rouben Mamoulian, choreographed by Agnes de Mille and starred Alfred Drake (Curly), Joan Roberts (Laurey), Celeste Holm (Ado Annie), Howard da Silva...
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  • introduced by Alfred Drake and Joan Roberts. The other characters think, correctly, that Laurey (Joan Roberts) and Curly (Alfred Drake) are in love. In...
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    stars were used in the production. Ultimately the original cast included Alfred Drake (Curly), Joan Roberts (Laurey), Celeste Holm (Ado Annie), Howard Da Silva...
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  • Book by Edward Eager & Alfred Drake; Lyrics by Edward Eager; Music by John Mundy (1950) The Gambler: Eager and Alfred Drake co-authored the English-language...
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    Vic Morrow) The Yeomen of the Guard (broadcast April 10, 1957) with Alfred Drake Hansel and Gretel (NBC Special, broadcast April 27, 1958) with Red Buttons...
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  • The Liar is a musical comedy in two acts with a book by Alfred Drake and Edward Eager, music by John Mundy and lyrics by Mr. Eager. It was produced on...
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  • film version. Less favorably received were Linda Marsh as Ophelia and Alfred Drake as King Claudius, whom Gielgud had considered replacing with respectively...
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  • played the King in the movie, but he was booked, as was Noël Coward. Alfred Drake, the original Curly in Oklahoma!, made contractual demands which were...
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  • Alexander Drake (disambiguation), multiple people Alfred Drake (1914–1992), American actor Alfred George Drake (1894–1915), British soldier Alicia Drake (born...
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  • actress (d. 1974) 1914 – Sarah Churchill, English actress (d. 1982) 1914 – Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (d. 1992) 1914 – Herman Keiser, American golfer...
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    of the opera as part of the NBC Hallmark Hall of Fame series starred Alfred Drake as Point, Barbara Cook as Elsie, Celeste Holm as Phoebe and Bill Hayes...
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    Gaston, Maria Karnilova as Mamita, Agnes Moorehead as Aunt Alicia, and Alfred Drake as Honoré. Arlene Francis replaced the ailing Moorehead later in the...
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  • again in a Command Records studio cast recording of Carousel, starring Alfred Drake and Roberta Peters, recorded in 1962. The song "I Left My Heart in San...
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  • Rivers An operetta by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon. With Marcy Wescott, Alfred Drake, Winston O'Keefe, Leo G. Carroll, Leslie French. 55 performances. Film...
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  • Timothy Jackson "Tim" Drake is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Batman...
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    Anniversary Show, which featured all the then-surviving stars (except Alfred Drake) of all the classic Broadway musicals that the team had written (1943–1954)...
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  • Robert Curtis-Brown as Todd, Winthorpe's romantic rival for Penelope; Alfred Drake as the Securities Exchange manager; and Jim Belushi as Harvey, a party-goer...
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