Preston Sturges

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on2 works

Make A Wish
Carnival in Flanders “A Musical Comedy”

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In the literature6 passages

• The musical was loosely based on Ferenc Molnar’s play The Good Fairy , which had premiered in 1931 and was filmed in 1935 with a screenplay by Preston Sturges. Sturges adapted the material for the musical stage, and the result was a weak vehicle for Fabray with mostly indifferent songs by Hugh Martin. The plot revolved around the revue-li…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Direction : Preston Sturges; Producers : Paula Stone and Mike Sloane and Johnny Burke and James Van Heusen; Choreography : Helen Tamiris; Scenery : Oliver Smith; Costumes : Lucinda Ballard; Lighting : Uncredited; Musical Direction : Harold Hastingsebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• During the musical’s long and painful tryout, George Oppenheimer and Herbert Fields were the authors of the book, which was later credited to Preston Sturges, who also took over the direction from Bretaigne Windust. Elie Siegmeister was credited for both the dance music and the vocal arrangements, but by the time the musical reached Broad…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Both the musical and the film on which it was based, Preston Sturges’ 1944 comedy, Hail the Conquering Hero, were about a young man who, because his father had been a war hero, has always dreamed of being a marine. He enlists in the war, but his chronic hay fever causes him to be discharged immediately. Ashamed to go back home, he hooks u…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
• The Conquering Hero was a musical adapted from a Preston Sturges film. Eddie Bracken played the lead in the film and Tom Poston played the lead in our show.ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt
• A. E. Matthews and Julia Hoyt. Francine Larrimore was highly successful in “Let Us Be Gay,” while “Strictl¥ Dishonorable” by Preston Sturges was the most popular comedy of the year with Muriel Kirkland and Tullio Carminati. “June Moon,” a satirical comedy about song writers, ~ was also well patronized. Claiborne Foster appeared in an inte…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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