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Allen Boretz

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LyricistBook Writer 1900–1986

Allen Boretz (1900–1985), was an American songwriter, playwright and screenwriter. The great success of his and John Murray's Broadway hit Room Service (1937) led to offers from Hollywood, and he wrote and co-wrote screenplays from the late 1930s through the 1940s. His film credits include It Ain't Hay (1943), Step 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 (1949). . Boretz' screenwriting ended abruptly when he was blacklisted in the early 1950s. However, Room Service has never stopped being produced by professional and amateur theatrical companies throughout the world, and has…

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Café Crown
Ziegfeld Follies

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  • Little Earful’’ to Ned Lehak (music) and Billy Rose and Allen Boretz (lyrics). Either the program was in error ortheatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt
  • ROOM SERVICE by John Murray and Allen Boretz, with Shelley Berman, Alan Sues, Ron Palillo, Douglas Mellor, Ray Lonergan,theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1976-77 Season, v. 33 (Willis).txt
  • ALLEN BORETZ, 85, New York City-bora playwright and screenwriter, died May 21, 1986 oftheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1985-86 Season, v. 42 (Willis).txt
  • ROOM SERVICE (May ro .) by John Murray and Allen Boretz. Producer and director: George Abbott. With Sam Levene, Eddie Albert and Philip Loeb. VIRGINIA (Sept. 2 musical drama, with book by Laurence Stallings and Owen Davis; music by Arthur Schwartz. Producer: Rockefeller Center Inc. Settings by Lee Simonson. Staging by Leoni- | doft and Li…theatre-pdfs/sim_theatre-arts_1937-11_21_11.txt

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