Paula Laurence

On stage 16 productions, 30 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Act Two: “Women’s Work” (music by Lehman Engel) (Paula Laurence, with Jean Handzlik, Lee Wilcox, and May Muth); “Spring” (Paula Laurence, Russell Collins); “Stomachs and Stomachs” (Joshua Shelley); “A Jewel of a Duel” (Robert Penn, Barbara Moser, Karen Lindgen, Paula Laurence, Melville Cooper, Philip Coolidge, William Eythe, Joshua Shelle…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• With Ethel Merman, Paula Laurence introduced “By the Mississinewah” in Cole Porter’s Something for the Boys (1943); and in Kurt Weill’s One Touch of Venus (also 1943) she introduced “Very, Very, Very” and the title song. She later appeared in two of the era’s most notorious flops, The Duchess Misbehaves (1946) and The Liar (1950).ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• C AST : Ethel Merman (as Blossom Hart), Bill Johnson, Allen Jenkins, Paula Laurence, Jed Prouty, Betty Garrett, Betty Bruce, Stuart Langleyebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
• N OTES : After Paula Laurence left the cast, the part of Chiquita Hart was assumed by Betty Bruce, who became a lifelong friend of Ethel’s.ebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
• Pearson in “Get Away Old Man.” Mary Martin made a great hit in “One Touch of Venus” with John Boles, Kenny Baker and Paula Laurence;theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
• Candle” with Lilli Palmer and Rex Harrisom; “Season in the Sun” with Richard Whorf, Nancy Kelly, Grace Valentine and Paula Laurence; “The Innocents,” William Archibald’s dramatization of Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw,” with Beatrice Straight; and Christopher Fry’s “The Lady’s Not For Burning” starring John Gielgud and Pamela Brown.…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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