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Rouben Mamoulian

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DirectorBook Writer 1897–1987

Rouben Zachary Mamoulian (October 8, 1897 – December 4, 1987) was an Armenian-American film and theater director. Mamoulian's oeuvre includes sixteen films (four of which are musicals) and seventeen Broadway productions, six of which are musicals. He was responsible for the acclaimed original stagings of Oklahoma! (1943) and Carousel (1945), as well as the first production of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1935). His output in the early film sound era demonstrated his talent for deploying cinematic innovations that were startling in their day. He restored mobility to the camera, and developed his own signature use of montage, close-ups, split-screens and dissolves. Mamoulian's films garne…

Also credited on6 works

Arms and the Girl
Carousel
Lost in the Stars
Oklahoma!
Porgy and Bess
St. Louis Woman

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In the literature8 passages

  • As we have seen (see chapter 4 ), Rouben Mamoulian, with Gershwin’s acquiescence, if not approval, managed to cut about forty minutes before Porgy and Bess launched its career on Broadway in 1935. Despite the cuts, what audiences heard at its Broadway debut was a full-scale opera, with sparse amounts of spoken dialogue reserved mainly for…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • 24 . Mamoulian’s notes were published in Tom Milne, Rouben Mamoulian (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969), 13, and in Charles Hamm, “The Theatre Guild Production,” 509. The sequence, which bears a strong rhythmic resemblance to the opening drumbeats and some of the rhythmic layering that introduce the Kittiwah scene, appears in a…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • Direction : Rouben Mamoulian; Producers : The Theatre Guild in association with Anthony Brady Farrell; Direction : Michael Kidd; Scenery : Horace Armistead; Costumes : Audre; Lighting : Uncredited; Musical Direction : Frederick Dvonchebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Direction : Rouben Mamoulian (production under the “supervision” of Theresa Helburn and Lawrence Langer and “reproduced” by Jerome Whyte); Producer : The Theatre Guild; Choreography : Agnes de Mille; Scenery : Lemuel Ayers; Costumes : Miles White; Lighting : Uncredited; Musical Direction : Peter Lauriniebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Direction : Rouben Mamoulian (staged by Jerome Whyte); Producer : The New York City Center of Music and Drama; Choreography : Agnes de Mille (dances reproduced by Betty Gour); Scenery : Lemuel Ayers; Costumes : Miles White; Lighting : Uncredited; Musical Direction : Peter Lauriniebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • The 1957 MGM film version was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, choreographed by Eugene Loring (who had created the dances for the Broadway production), and starred Fred Astaire (Canfield), Cyd Charisse (Ninotchka), Janis Paige (Janice), Peter Lorre, Jules Munshin, Joseph Buloff, and George Tobias (the latter re-creating his stage role of Mar…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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