Joe Cook

On stage 4 productions, 17 years

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In the literature7 passages

• Cast: Joe Cook, Nell O’Day, Dave Chasen, Eleanor Powell, Alice Boulden, Joe Wagstaffebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Comic Joe Cook was an innocent looking clown with a wide smile whose specialties were non sequitur stories (including his trademark routine about why he would not imitate four Hawaiians), Rube Goldberg-type inventions, and acrobatic and juggling skills. Fine and Dandy, a follow-up to his popular vehicle, Rain or Shine, not only included t…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Another of PS Classics’ excellent restorations, Kay Swift’s Fine and Dandy (1930), gives us the star-comic show. That comic, Joe Cook, was in only one number, the title song, which Mario Cantone and Carolee Carmello put over with giddy aplomb. Carmello really takes stage with her two solos, “Can This Be Love?” and the second-act torcher,…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
• Lane and Imogene Wilson were in the “Ziegfeld Follies,” Lester Allen and Winnie Lightner in the “George White’s Seandals,” Joe Cook and Sophie Tucker in the “Vanities,” Grace Moore, Fannietheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
• June 16, 1973 of cancer in his Los Angeles home. Started career in vaudeville in 1920, and became straightman for Joe Cook. He appeared in "Earl Carroll's Vanities," "George White's Scandals," "Fine and Dandy," and "Hold Your Horses." Surviving are his widow and atheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt
• Adapted from Walt Disney’s film; Book, Joe Cook; Producer, Robert F. Jani; Director-Choreographer, Frank Wagner; Production Executive, John J. Moore; Executive Musical Director, Donald Pippin; Conductor, Don Smith; Orchestrations, Philip J. Lang; Scenery, John William Keck; Costumes, Frank Spencer; Mask and Animaltheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1979-80 Season, v. 36 (Willis).txt

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