Also credited on2 works
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Thoroughly Modern Millie
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In the literature8 passages
- 88 The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Meredith Willson’s second Broadway show, had a book by Richard Morris. Critic Gerald Boardman expressed the general consensus when he wrote, ‘the new work lacked something of the stylish consistency of The Music Man’.ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- Grimes had read the libretto that Richard Morris had written based on the life of Margaret “Molly” Tobin (1867–1932). It told of an unschooled girl from Hannibal, Missouri, who was determined to better herself, become educated, marry rich, and–perhaps most important of all—be accepted by high society.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- It wasn’t easy. When Scanlan first summoned the nerve to track down original screenwriter Richard Morris, he found that the man didn’t even want to talk with him, let alone collaborate.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- Book: Richard Morris & Dick Scanlan; original story & screenplay by Richard Morris for Universal Pictures Filmebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- EBB: Not long after we first met, Richard Morris showed us a book he had written for a show called Golden Gate , and we wrote the score. The libretto was about the rebuilding of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.ebooks/Lawrence, Greg/Colored Lights_ Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz - Greg Lawrence & John Kander & Fred Ebb.txt
- 1491 (Los Angeles; Sept. 2, ’69; closed on the road), with a book by Willson and Richard Morris, who also directed, was another Edwin Lester–Civic Light Opera epic. It was a speculation on the events leading up to Christopher Columbus’s acquiring three ships and sailing to the Indies, spiced up with a triangle between Columbus (John Cullu…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
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