Eddie Davis

On stage 2 productions, 2 years

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Also credited on2 works

Follow The Girls
Ankles Aweigh

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In the literature4 passages

• Ankles Aweigh was a reunion of sorts for lyricist Dan Shapiro and book writers Guy Bolton and Eddie Davis, all of whom had collaborated on the 1944 hit musical Follow the Girls . Perhaps Ankles Aweigh ’s Spud and Dinky were a subtle homage (and a subtle sequel) to the earlier musical’s sailor-characters Goofy, Spud, and Dinky.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Sketches : Eddie Davis, Coleman Jacoby, Loney Lewis, David Rogers, Arnie Rosen, and Ira Wallachebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• If I'd been looking, signs of drinking too much were apparent in 1939, when I was twenty-one. The origin was a nightclub act of "bright young satirists," six of us in a small, original musical revue. We did individual thirtysecond blackouts of Husbands and Mothers; we had group numbers where each of us was one of the five boroughs (#6 pla…ebooks/Laurents, Arthur/Original Story By_ A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood - Arthur Laurents.txt
• Music by Phil Charig; lyrics by Dan Shapiro and Milton Pascal; book by Guy Bolton, Eddie Davis and Fred Thompsonebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt

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