Harry Richman

On stage 7 productions, 14 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on1 work

George White’s Scandals

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In the literature4 passages

• The song is Richman corn [Harry Richman, who introduced Irving Berlin’s song “Puttin’ on the Ritz” in the 1930 film also called Puttin on the Ritz ], the flower number kind of thing—every girl reminds me of a flower; here is a hydrangea, here is a crocus, etc. a YOUNG MAN stays in the spotlight, holding out a hand for Hydrangea, who is in…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Cast: Willie & Eugene Howard, Frances Williams, Harry Richman, Tom Patricola, Ann Pennington, McCarthy Sisters, Fairbanks Twins, Buster West, Portland Hoffaebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• “Great Temptations,” and Ann Pennington, Frances Williams, Eugene and Willie Howard and Harry Richman were featured in “George White’s Scandals.” Frank Tinney was in the “Vanities,” and Clark and McCullough were cavorting in “The Ramblers,” and so was Fred Stonetheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
• HARRY RICHMAN, 77, song-and-dance man on stage, film, and in night clubs, died Nov. 3,theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).txt

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