• The Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 is a musical revue with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, music by Vernon Duke and sketches by Gershwin and David Freedman. The Ziegfeld...
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    Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical revue productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 to 1931, with renewals in 1934, 1936,...
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    appeared in Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s theatrical Broadway revue spectaculars known as the Ziegfeld Follies. When Ziegfeld's Follies began in 1907, advertisements...
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    the Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris. He also produced the musical Show Boat. He was known as the "glorifier of the...
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    the fall of 1935, is a fictionalized and sanitized tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and a cinematic adaptation of Broadway's Ziegfeld Follies, with highly...
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    stories of three women who become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies. It was intended to be a 1938 sequel to the 1936 hit The...
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    Truth Game – 1930 Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 – 1934 (producer) Ziegfeld Follies of 19361936 (producer) This Rock – 1943 Ziegfeld Follies of 1943 – 1943 (producer)...
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    Vincente Minnelli (category Commanders of the Legion of Honour)
    Broadway run, Minnelli returned to costume and scenic design for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, starring Fannie Brice. John Murray Anderson was the director,...
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    Ruthie Henshall (category Singers from the London Borough of Bromley)
    and Broadway revival cast, 1997–1998, 1999, 2010) as Roxie Hart Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (New York concert cast, 1999) Roles originated by Gertrude Niesen...
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  • Howard McGillin (category University of California, Santa Barbara alumni)
    Center in 2003. He was featured in the Encores! production of the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 in 1999. He appeared in the Irish Repertory Theatre (New York...
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  • I Can't Get Started (category 1936 songs)
    It was written in 1936 by Vernon Duke (music) and Ira Gershwin (lyrics) and introduced that year in the revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, where it was performed...
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    of the Ziegfeld Follies, to which the Shuberts had acquired the rights after Florenz Ziegfeld died. Another edition of the Follies was hosted in 1936...
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  • Gershwin m. Vernon Duke. Introduced by Fanny Brice in the revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1936. "I Can't Escape From You" w.m. Leo Robin & Richard A. Whiting...
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    The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air was a program broadcast on CBS Radio during the 1930s which attempted to bring the success of Florenz Ziegfeld's stage...
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    Kevin Chamberlin (category Mason Gross School of the Arts alumni)
    production of Tom Sawyer. After he graduated from Moorestown High School in 1981, Chamberlin studied acting at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the...
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    Christine Ebersole (category American Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni)
    December 27, 2023. Marks, Peter (March 27, 1999). "THEATER REVIEW; No-Frills 'Follies' Still Has Songs and Legs". New York Times. Retrieved December 27, 2023...
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    cast in a range of plays, such as Valley Forge (1934), Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (1935), The Masque of Kings (1936), Storm Over Patsy (1936), and Caesar (1937...
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  • part of Kid Millions (1934), their first performances in a Hollywood movie. The brothers made their Broadway debut in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 and...
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    Eve Arden (category Ziegfeld girls)
    Lives (1933) On Approval (1933) Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 (1934) Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (1936) Very Warm for May (1939) Two for the Show (1940) Let's Face...
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    Ira Gershwin (1936), "April in Paris," with lyrics by E. Y. ("Yip") Harburg (1932), and "What Is There To Say," for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1934, also with...
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    Marcella Sembrich, a Polish coloratura soprano. She sang in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 in a cast that included Fanny Brice and Gypsy Rose Lee. In 1940...
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    Gold digger (category Stereotypes of women)
    Marriage, Money, and the Law from the Ziegfeld Follies to Anna Nicole Smith. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-1469660288...
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    Doris Eaton Travis (category Ziegfeld girls)
    surviving Ziegfeld Girl, a troupe of acclaimed chorus girls who performed as members in the Broadway theatrical revues of the Ziegfeld Follies. She began...
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    perhaps because of its length and unconventional form. Josephine Baker danced to it in her return to America in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, but neither...
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    Folies Bergère inspired the Ziegfeld Follies in the United States and other similar shows, including the Teatro Follies in Mexico and a long-standing...
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  • Walter Kent (category City College of New York alumni)
    Like A Cigarette" (1936) "El Amor es una Ilusión" (1936) "Harlem Waltz"; from the Broadway musical Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (1936) "Mama, I Wanna Make...
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    Le Baiser de la Fée (originally titled The Fairy's Kiss) (1937) Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 Words without Music: A Surrealist Ballet, a production number for...
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  • Ziegfeld Follies. He went on to design the costumes for the Broadway revues Ziegfeld Follies of 1934, his first show and Ziegfeld Follies of 1936. During...
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  • Lively (1944), Up in Arms (1944), The Princess and the Pirate (1944), Ziegfeld Follies (1946), Copacabana (1947), My Girl Tisa (1948), and Two Guys from Texas...
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  • Ziegfeld Follies of 1918 (1918) Oh, My Dear! (1918) See-Saw (1919) Mary (1920) The O'Brian Girl (1921) The Greenwich Village Follies (1922) Ziegfeld Follies...
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