Lillian Roth

On stage 10 productions, 54 years

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Worked with more than once11 names

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In the literature8 passages

• There is one fact: a star is. When I conducted I Can Get It forYou Wholesale in 1962, the star was Lillian Roth, who was famous not only as a performer, but especially as a lady who had won a spectacular fight against alcoholism. There was an unattractive girl, undisciplined, untrained, who had a small part, her first in the theatre, name…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
• Cast: Will Mahoney, Lillian Roth, William Demarest, Mitchell & Durant, Milton Watsonebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Wholesale, a tough show about the garment center, had a large cast, and a distinguished one. Lillian Roth played the mother of the slippery central character, Harry Bogen. Sheree North, once considered a possible successor to Marilyn Monroe, played Harry's mistress. Harold Lang, who had appeared in the historic 1950 production of Pal Joey…ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt
• But her fellow cast members embraced her. Lillian Roth and Sheree North both took a maternal attitude toward her, encour aging her to respond to the attentions of her handsome leading man. Whenever they needed her and couldn't find her, someone would suggest, "Try Elliott's room."ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt
• KANDER: Davey was the perfect example of what the show was about. On that same day he died, we had a rehearsal. He was sitting on a side seat, and Lillian Roth was sitting in back of him. He had his hand up her skirt, saying, “Lillian, one quick schtup with me will straighten you right out.” That night he was dead, having gotten a laugh.…ebooks/Lawrence, Greg/Colored Lights_ Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz - Greg Lawrence & John Kander & Fred Ebb.txt
• The show was coming together, according to press reports. Instead of Sylvia Sidney, the part of Mrs. Bogen had gone to Lillian Roth, another old-time star. Roth hadn’t been on Broadway since the early 1930s, when she’d been one of the sensations in the Earl Carroll Vanities. A brief stint in movies had followed until alcoholism cut short…ebooks/Mann, William J_/Hello, Gorgeous_ Becoming Barbra Streisand - William J. Mann.txt

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