Rudy Vallee

On stage 3 productions, 30 years

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Worked with more than once5 names

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Also credited on2 works

George White’s Scandals
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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In the literature8 passages

• And the agent and talent scout Abe Newborne had the guy to play Biggley. Rudy Vallee. Abe Burrows used to write for him in his old radio days, when he was a popular crooner and young girls went wild over him. There was a time when he was bigger than Frank Sinatra. We all agreed that he would, with his WASPY good looks, make the ideal Bigg…ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt
• It would have been tragic had it been anyone else. Rudy Vallee had the ability to obliterate pity. For one thing, he was not broke. This was not a broken movie star fallen on hard times. No, this was a vain rich man. He was doing this out of ego.ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt
• I could hear the steam coming out of Frank Loesser’s ears. Rudy Vallee went on, in his oblivious and insulting fashion. “This is not a very strong piece of material,” he says. He turns to me. “I’m trying to help the man. Do you know how many songs I’ve introduced in my career? I’m trying to help him out.”ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt
• Frank is at the bursting point, no longer capable of speech. I command Rudy Vallee to sing it the way Frank has written it, and he walks out, convinced that he is dealing with a musically challenged production team.ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt
• They wanted to attend the lecture that Rudy Vallee was going to give on How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt
• Burrows had written for Rudy Vallee’s radio show, so he’s responsible for getting that crooner of yore to portray as J. B. Biggley, the lecherous president of World Wide Wickets. Far more importantly, Burrows was the one to convince Frank Loesser, his Guys and Dolls composer-lyricist, to do the new show. He felt that Loesser, a sharp busi…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt

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