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Ray Dooley

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Actor 1890–1984 On stage 19171986

Ray Dooley (née Rachel Rice Dool; died January 28, 1984) was a vaudeville performer in the Ziegfeld Follies with others including W. C. Fields, Will Rogers and Fanny Brice. From there she moved to other musical stage performances.

On stage 15 productions, 69 years

1917 Words and Music Fulton Theatre · Original · directed by Leon Errol 24 perf.
1918 Hitchy-Koo [1918] Globe Theatre · Original · directed by Leon Errol 68 perf.
1919 Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Florenz Ziegfeld 171 perf.
1920 Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Royce 123 perf.
1921 Ziegfeld Follies of 1921 Globe Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Royce 119 perf.
1922 The Bunch and Judy Globe Theatre · Original · directed by Fred G. Latham 63 perf.
1923 Nifties of 1923 Fulton Theatre · Original · directed by R.H. Burnside 47 perf.
1925 Ziegfeld Follies of 1925 New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Julian Mitchell 88 perf.
1926 No Foolin' Globe Theatre · Original · directed by John Boyle 108 perf.
1927 Sidewalks of New York Knickerbocker Theatre · Original · directed by Edgar MacGregor 112 perf.
1928 Earl Carroll's Vanities [1928] Earl Carroll Theatre · Original · directed by Busby Berkeley 200 perf.
1934 Thumbs Up! St James Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Alton 156 perf.
1948 Hope's the Thing Playhouse Theatre · Original 7 perf.
1982 Macbeth Circle In The Square Theatre · Revival · directed by Nicol Williamson 21 perf.
1986 So Long on Lonely Street Jack Lawrence Theatre · Original · directed by Kent Stephens 53 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

W. C. Fields 3 productions
Van and Schenck 3 productions
Jessie Reed 3 productions
Gladys Loftus 3 productions
Fanny Brice 3 productions
Phil Dwyer 2 productions
Peggy Fears 2 productions
Ona Hamilton 2 productions
Olive Vaughn 2 productions
Norma Forrest 2 productions
Noel Francis 2 productions
Naomi Johnson 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 10 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on2 works

Follies
Ziegfeld Follies

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

  • Cast: Marilyn Miller, Eddie Cantor, Bert Williams, Eddie Dowling, Ray Dooley, Johnny Dooley, Delyle Alda, John Steel, Van & Schenck, Mary Hayebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Fanny Brice, W. C. Fields, Raymond Hitchcock, Ray Dooley, Mary Milburn, Van & Schenck, Florence O’Denishawn, Vera Michelena, Mary Eaton, Channing Pollock, Mary Lewisebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • RAY DOOLEY as COUNTESS OF CATHCART, PEGGY FEARS as RAQUEL MELLER, EDNA LEEDOM as PEGGY JOYCE, POLLY WALKER as ELLEN MACKAY, CLAIRE as PEACHES in LUCE as LULU BELLE , PAULETTE GODDARD ZIEGFELD’S REVUE ‘’NO FOOLIN’ ”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • Ray Dooley Richard Jamieson Paul Falzone Nicol Williamson John Henry Cox Gregory Mortensentheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1981-82 Season, v. 38 (Willis).txt
  • Director, Jacques Carrier. CAST: by Brian Jack Aranson, Ray Dooley, Raymond Hardie, Linda Kozlowski, Richard Seer, Eric Tull, Kathleen Melvin, Richard Mathews, Sara Bradley, Derektheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1982-83 Season, v. 39 (Willis).txt
  • Sound, David Budries; Stage Manager, Alice Dewey. CAST: Maggie Burke (Mama), Ray Dooley (Duvid), Kate Fuglei (Hanna), Mark Margolis (Mordechai Weiss), Gordana Rashovich (Lusia Weiss Pechenik), Lindsey Margo Smith (Rose Weiss)theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1985-86 Season, v. 42 (Willis).txt

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