Lester Allen

On stage 12 productions, 26 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on3 works

George White’s Scandals
Ziegfeld Follies
A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical

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In the literature5 passages

• Cast: W. C. Fields, Winnie Lightner, Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Lester Allen, George White, Jack McGowan, Pearl Regay, Dolores Costelloebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Dennis King, Vivienne Segal, Lester Allen, Vivienne Osborne, Yvonne D’Arle, Reginald Owen, Joseph Macaulay, Harriet Hoctor, Douglass Dumbrille, Detmar Poppen, Clarence Derwentebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Producers: Paramount Theatres (Dan Sherkow), Lester Allen, Francine LeFrak, Kenneth Greenblatt, Mark Schwartzebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Charles Winninger. “Scandals of 1919” was the first of this series produced by George White. The cast included Ann Pennington, Lester Allen and Mr. White himself.theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).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

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