Melville Cooper

On stage 18 productions, 35 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on1 work

Robin Hood

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In the literature8 passages

• Being set in Italy may have doomed the musical, but the presence of Melville Cooper in the cast didn’t help. Cooper always delighted the critics, but he was in an inordinate number of musical failures. Despite their glorious scores, Jubilee (1935) and The Firebrand of Florence (1945) had disappointing runs, and Cooper’s other musicals wer…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Janette meets a would-be amorous theatrical impresario (Melville Cooper), a dancer from Texas (Harold Lang), his saucy dancer-girlfriend (Helen Gallagher), and poor-but-honest lawyer (Stephen Douglass) with whom she falls in love. Perhaps casting Fabray as a young orphan was the first mistake. She was thirty at the time, and photographs f…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast : Jose Duval (The King, Gaston), Melville Cooper (Popoff), Alex Alexander (Cascada), Helena Scott (Natalie), C. K. Alexander (Khadja), Lucy Hillary (Olga Bardini), George Lipton (General Bardini), Lewis Brooks (Novakovich), Jim Hawthorne (Jolidon), Sonja Savig (Guest), Casper Roos (Guest), Norman Budd (Nish), Marta Eggerth (Sonia), W…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• One of the most popular revivals opened at the Majestic Theatre on August 4, 1943, for 322 performances and starred Marta Eggerth, Jan Kiepura, and Melville Cooper (Popoff), all of whom reprised their roles for the 1957 production at City Center. Sidney Shelton and Ben Roberts’s book for the 1943 production was used for the current reviva…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast : Jack Carter (Actor-Manager, Sgnarelle), Jayne Turner (Lucinda), Allen Case (Leander), Melville Cooper (Geronte), William Olvis (Horace), Susan Johnson (Jacqueline), Virginia Martin (Lizette), Rosemary O’Reilly (Fleurette), Michael Kermoyan (Lucas), Jack Bittner (Thibaut), James Tushar (Perrin), Billie Worth (Martina), Craig Timberl…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast: Mary Boland, June Knight, Melville Cooper, Charles Walters, Derek Williams, Mark Plant, Montgomery Clift, May Boley, Margaret Adamsebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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