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Louise Groody

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Actor 1897–1961 On stage 19151933

Louise Groody (March 27, 1897 – September 16, 1961) was an American Broadway musical comedy star of the 1920s who introduced to New York audiences the song "Tea for Two" in the musical No, No, Nanette.

On stage 10 productions, 18 years

1915 Around the Map New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Herbert Gresham 104 perf.
1918 Fiddlers Three Cort Theatre · Original · directed by Clifford Brooke 87 perf.
1918 Toot-Toot! George M Cohans Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Rose 40 perf.
1920 The Night Boat Liberty Theatre · Original · directed by Fred G. Latham 313 perf.
1921 Good Morning Dearie Globe Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Royce 347 perf.
1923 One Kiss Fulton Theatre · Original · directed by Fred G. Latham 95 perf.
1925 No, No, Nanette Globe Theatre · Original · directed by H. H. Frazee 321 perf.
1927 Hit The Deck! Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Alexander Leftwich 352 perf.
1932 The Metropolitan Players Chanin Auditorium · Revival 5 perf.
1933 A Church Mouse Mansfield Theatre · Revival · directed by Robert Lively 9 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

Raymond Moore 3 productions
Daniel Sparks 3 productions
Adah Lewis 3 productions
William Bailey 2 productions
Pauline Hall 2 productions
Oscar Shaw 2 productions
Mildred Sinclair 2 productions
Lydia Scott 2 productions
Lillian Mackenzie 2 productions
Josephine Whittell 2 productions
John Price Jones 2 productions
John E. Hazzard 2 productions

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. 8 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

In the literature8 passages

  • Cast: Louise Groody, Charles Winninger, Josephine Whittell, Wellington Cross, Eleanor Dawn, Georgia O’Ramey, Mary Lawlor, John Barkerebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Louise Groody, Charles King, Stella Mayhew, Madeline Cameron, Brian Donlevy, Jack McCauleyebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Morning Dearie” with Louise Groody and Oscar Shaw; and “The O’Brien Girl” with Elizabeth Hines. Among the revues, the “Ziegfeld Follies of 1921” cast included Raymond Hitchcock, Fannie Brice, W. C. Fields, Ray Dooley, Vera Michelena and Mary Eaton; “George White’s Scandals” had Ann Pennington, Charles King, Lester Allen and Aunt Jemima; “…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • King, Louise Groody and Stella Mayhew, “The Five O’Clock Girl” with Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw, and “A Connecticut Yankee”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • No, No, Nanette, with (1. to r.) Louise Groody as Nanette, Charles Winninger as Jimmy Smith, Wellington Cross as Billy Early, and Josephine Whittell as Lucille. New York, Globe Theatre, 1925 [Culver Pictures]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • Started Something” with an entirely new lyric (“I’m Waiting for You,” by Otto Harbach). It was sung in No, No, Nanette by Louise Groody (Nanette) and Jack Barker (Tom). As “Waiting for You,” it was sung in the 1971 Broadway revival of Nanette by Susan Watson and Roger Rathburn.theatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt

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