Allen Kearns

On stage 17 productions, 32 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Cast: Queenie Smith, Allen Kearns, Andrew Tombes, Harry Watson Jr., Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Halliday, Gertrude McDonaldebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Fred & Adele Astaire, Victor Moore, William Kent, Allen Kearns, Betty Compton, Dorothy Jordanebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Willie Howard, Allen Kearns, Ginger Rogers, William Kent, Ethel Merman, Antonio & Renee DeMarco, Lew Parker, Roger Edens, Red Nichols Orchestraebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• C AST : Allen Kearns, Ginger Rogers, Willie Howard, Ethel Merman (as Kate Fothergill), William Kent, Peggy O’Connor, Eunice Healy, Lew Parker, Carlton Macy, Clyde Veaux, Olive Brady, Chief Rivers, Donald Fosterebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
• Merman had a role in the plot, playing “Why, you—” comedy with her inattentive husband (William Kent) and offering sympathy to the Boy (Allen Kearns) after the Girl (Ginger Rogers) humiliated him in the first-act finale. Right from the start, Merman barked out her lines as if they were all marked “loud and funny,” and her excellent dictio…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
• Hopkins and Allen Kearns. Other musicals were “The Dancing Girl” with Trini and Marie Dressler, “Helen of Troy, N.Y.” with Queenie Smith, “Battling Buttler” with Charles Ruggles, “Dew Drop Inn” with James Barton, “Stepping Stones” with Fred and Dorothy Stone. Joe Cook and Peggy Hopkins Joyce were in the “Vanities,” Frank Fay in “Artists a…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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