Also credited on1 work
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 literature5 passages
- Direction : Paul Gerard Smith (Direction); George Hale (Staging); Producers : Irving Gaumont in association with Grace Rosenfield; Choreography : Henry LeTang (Arleigh Peterson, Assistant); Scenery : Albert Johnson; Costumes : Waldo Angelo; Lighting : Uncredited; Musical Direction : Uncredited (Billy Butler was credited as Assistant Condu…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- The current 1952 production was the last one in the irregular series, and it closed after four performances. The book was credited to Miller and Paul Gerard Smith, and Sissle and Blake wrote the respective lyrics and music. Of the fifteen songs, two were from the 1921 production (“I’m Just Wild about Harry” and “Love Will Find a Way”); on…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Funny Face (1927). Book: Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smith; lyrics: Ira Gershwin; music: George Gershwin. Musical comedy in which Frankie convinces her boyfriend Peter to steal her pearls from her guardian just astheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
- performances. Music by George Gershwin. Produced by Alex A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley. Book by Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smith (Smarty book credited to Fred Thompson and Robert Benchley). Book staged by Edgar MacGregor. Dances staged by Bobby Connolly. Orchestra under the direction of Alfred Newman. Cast, starring Fred Astaire (Jimmy…theatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt
- Gershwin; Book, Fred Thompson, Paul Gerard Smith, with revised book by Neal Du Brock. CAST: James Brennan, Bette Glenn, Ellen Greene, April Shawhan, Denny Shearer, Ronald Young, John Remme, Linda Ravinsky, Karen St. George, David Monzione, Eddie Pruett, Bobby Longbottom, Sally O’Donnell, Carol Wade, Bradtheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis).txt
Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.
What this page does not know
- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
- Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
- Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
- Which of the credits above the roles on this record — book writer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.