Robert Horton

On stage 2 productions, 20 years

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• When RCA Victor’s cast album of Take Me Along was released with Jackie Gleason, it inaugurated a trend of sorts for the company. For some reason, RCA tended to pick up the cast album rights to musicals that starred television personalities, such as Wildcat (Lucille Ball), Do Re Mi (Phil Silvers), Let It Ride! (George Gobel), Little Me (Si…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• But suddenly Robert Horton became available. Horton was a TV star with limited stage experience and vocal ability. His major virtue, in the eyes of Merrick, was that he had recently been hired by Richard Rodgers, whom he still viewed as an enemy. (There had been a brief reconciliation, arranged by Logan, when Rodgers and Hammerstein asked…ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt
• 97 Robert Horton (1924–) is an American actor, well known in this period for his long-running appearance (1957–62) in the television series Wagon Train . He appeared in the Broadway musical 110 in the Shade from October 1963.ebooks/Unknown/Alan Jay Lerner_ A Lyricist's Letters - Unknown.txt
• shrugged and waited. Barbara Harris was kept under contract—Lerner knew what he had in this unusually talented, unusual girl—while costar Robert Horton was released (and went into the already-in-rehearsal 110 in the Shade [1963], causing Hal Holbrook to be fired; Championtheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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