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Bettina Hall

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Actor b. 1987 On stage 19271939

Bettina Hall was an American singer-actress who originated leading roles in 1930s Broadway musicals, including Jerome Kern's The Cat and the Fiddle (1931) opposite Georges Metaxa, and Cole Porter's Anything Goes (1934) as Hope Harcourt opposite Ethel Merman and William Gaxton.

On stage 10 productions, 12 years

1927 Iolanthe Royale Theatre · Revival 11 perf.
1927 The Pirates Of Penzance Royale Theatre · Revival 10 perf.
1929 The Little Show Music Box · Original · directed by Dwight Deere Wiman, Alexander Leftwich 321 perf.
1930 Carmen Casino Theatre · Revival
1930 Meet My Sister Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by John Pierce 167 perf.
1930 Three Little Girls Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by J. J. Shubert 104 perf.
1931 The Cat And The Fiddle Globe Theatre · Revival · directed by José Ruben 395 perf.
1934 Anything Goes Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Howard Lindsay 420 perf.
1934 The Only Girl 44th Street Theatre · Revival · directed by R.H. Burnside 16 perf.
1939 Susanna, Don't You Cry Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by José Ruben 5 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

Peter Chambers 3 productions
William Williams 2 productions
William C Gordon 2 productions
Virginia Fox 2 productions
Vera Ross 2 productions
Suissabell Sterling 2 productions
Paula Langlen 2 productions
Margaret Adams 2 productions
Lois Bennett 2 productions
John Barclay 2 productions
J Humbird Duffey 2 productions
George Meader 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 9 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

In the literature6 passages

  • Cast: Clifton Webb, Fred Allen, Libby Holman, Romney Brent, Portland Hoffa, Bettina Hall, Jack McCauley, Peggy Conklin, Constance Cummingsebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • The Cat and the Fiddle. Georges Metaxa, George Meader, and Bettina Hall. (White)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Georges Metaxa, Bettina Hall, Odette Myrtil, Eddie Foy Jr., José Ruben, Lawrence Grossmith, Doris Carson, George Meaderebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: William Gaxton, Ethel Merman, Victor Moore, Bettina Hall, Vera Dunn, Leslie Barrie, Vivian Vance, Helen Raymond, George E. Mack, Houston Richardsebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • C AST : William Gaxton, Victor Moore, Ethel Merman (as Reno Sweeney), Leslie Barrie, Bettina Hall, Vera Dunn, Helen Raymondebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
  • and Adele Astaire, Frank Morgan and Helen Broderick, “The | Cat and the Fiddle” with Bettina Hall and Georges Metaxa. “America’s Sweetheart” with Jack Whiting and Harriet Lake | (changed to Ann Sothern for films), “The Third Little Show™ | with Beatrice Lillie and Ernest Truex, “The Laugh Parade” with Ed Wynn, “You Said It” with Lou Holtz…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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What this page does not know

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