Also credited on3 works
Dear World
Take Me Along
Tovarich
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In the literature7 passages
- Direction : Peter Glenville; Producer : David Merrick; Choreography : Onna White; Scenery : Oliver Smith; Costumes : Miles White; Lighting : Jean Rosenthal; Musical Direction : Lehman Engelebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Hotel Paradiso by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres, as adapted by Peter Glenville (Henry Miller’s Theatre, April 11, 1957, 108 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Gleason, at least, was a plausible adversary for Merrick. He was a huge success and a man with a tongue as agile as his opponent's. Peter Glenville, in fact, was convinced that Gleason was the pettier of the two. One of their non-publicized battles was over billing. In Gleason's contract it specified that Gleason's was to be the only name…ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt
- While the show was being cast Peter Glenville passed through New York with his friend Laurence Harvey, who was touring the U.S. in the wake of his glowing notices for Room at the Top. Harvey was commanding the then astronomical sum of $350,000 a picture, but he was eager to do Wholesale for a reasonable fee. It turned out that he was Jewi…ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt
- Tchin-Tchin, directed by Peter Glenville and starring Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn, was a series of scenes between a man and woman, both alcoholics, from two quite different walks of life. It was a play that aroused controversy in London, with estimations of its content ranging from a demonstration of "pure behavior" to "an exposur…ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt
- Chapter Thirteen: The material in this chapter is drawn from interviews with Peter Glenville, Garson Kanin, Bob Merrill, Michael Shurtleff, Joseph Stein and Robert Whitehead. The anecdote about Merrill "Firing" Glennville wa recounted to me in detail by Merrill. Glenville does not remember it at all and disputes its having taken place, bu…ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt
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- 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 — director — 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.