Also credited on6 works
Let ‘Em Eat Cake
Louisiana Purchase
Of Thee I Sing
Strike Up the Band
The Cocoanuts
The Gang’s All Here
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- Pardon My English, it turned out, had a wonderfully silly book by Herbert Fields and Morrie Ryskind (to which David Ives, who did the adaptation, contributed much of his own wit.) In the context of a plot that was akin to the contemporaneous absurdist movie Million Dollar Legs, the high-spirited score, which had been shaped with extraordi…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- Where Do We Go from Here? (film, Sig Herzig, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin), directed by Gregory Ratoff, released 23 May 1945.ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
- Louisiana Purchase belongs in the orbit of Kaufman and Co. because its libretto was by Morrie Ryskind, Kaufman’s sometime collaborator on Marx Brothers projects (The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers ) and Gershwin operettas (Of Thee I Sing and Let ’Em Eat Cake ).ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
- 16 . Morrie Ryskind, with John H. M. Roberts, I Shot an Elephant in My Pajamas: The Morrie Ryskind Story (Lafayette, LA: Huntington House, 1994), 69.ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
- Ryskind, Morrie, with John H. M. Roberts. I Shot an Elephant in My Pajamas: The Morrie Ryskind Story . Lafayette, LA: Huntington House, 1994.ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
- Gaxton again teamed with Moore for his last musical success, Louisiana Purchase, in May of 1940. Morrie Ryskind's latest political-satire libretto had Gaxton playing another villain, scheming lawyer Jim Taylor, a cat's-paw of a Huey Long-like corrupt Louisiana politician. His job was to finagle investigating Senator Oliver P. Loganberry (…ebooks/Viagas, Robert/I'm the Greatest Star_ Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today - Robert Viagas.txt
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