Gertrude Niesen

On stage 4 productions, 12 years

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Worked with more than once2 names

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.

Also credited on1 work

Ziegfeld Follies

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In the literature6 passages

• Cast: Fanny Brice, Bob Hope, Gertrude Niesen, Josephine Baker, Hugh O’Connell, Harriet Hoctor, Eve Arden, Judy Canova, Cherry & June Preisser, Nicholas Brothers, John Hoysradt, Stan Kavanaughebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Gertrude Niesen, Jackie Gleason, Buster West, Tim Herbert, Irina Baronova, Frank Parker, William Tabbertebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• PATRICIA BOWMAN, EVERETT MARSHALL, GERTRUDE NIESEN, JACK WHITING, MITZI MAYFAIR in “CALLING ALL STARS”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
• 1 Don Walker. Cast, starring Fannie Brice, Bob Gertrude Niesen, Hugh O’Connell, Harriet HocArden, Judy Canova, Cherry and June Preisser, ysradt, and Josephine Baker, featured the Nichrothers (Harold and Fayard), Duke McHale, RodcLennan, Stan Kavanagh, Ben Yost’s Californiatheatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt
• Published December 1935. Introduced by Gertrude Niesen and Ben Yost’s California Varsity Eight; danced as “The Conga” by Josephine Baker, the Nicholas Brothers, and dancing ensemble,theatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt
• WORDS WITHOUT MUSIC Published December 1935. Introduced by Gertrude Niesen, danced by Harriet Hoctor and dancing ensemble (“A Surrealist Ballet .. . setting by Vincente Minnelli, choreography by George Balanchine’ —I.G.). Sung in the second (1936-37) edition by Jane Pickens, danced by Ruth Harrison, Alex Fisher, and dancing ensemble.theatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt

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