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Russell Janney

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Book Writer 1884–1963

Russell Janney (April 14, 1884 – July 14, 1963) was an American theatrical producer and author. He is best known for his 1946 best-selling book and first novel, The Miracle of the Bells, which was made into a film of the same name in 1948. He also produced and co-authored the 1925 musical The Vagabond King, working with Brian Hooker and composer Rudolf Friml. Janney also produced other plays including Marjolaine (1922) (based on Pomander Walk by Louis N. Parker), White Eagle (1927) (based on Edwin Milton Royle's The Squaw Man), June Love, Ballyhoo (1927), and an adaption of The O'Flynn (1934) by Justin Huntly McCarthy. His second novel, So Long As Love Remembers, was published in 1953, and t…

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  • Originally, producer Russell Janney planned this operatta to have a score by the youthful team of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart who had already transformed the venerable novel and play, If I Were King, into an amateur musical. When he was unable to get financial backing, however, Janney turned to the more experienced team of Rudolf Frim…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • The Vagabond King (lyrics by Brian Hooker, book by Hooker, Russell Janney, and W. H. Post) had an impressive 511 performances in its initial run. The libretto, based on the play If I Were King by Justin McCarthy, related a fictitious tale of the real FrançoisVillon, a fifteenth-century Parisian poet. King Louis XI dubs Villon king for a d…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
  • Music by Rudolf Friml; lyrics by Brian Hooker; book by Brian Hooker, Russell Janney and W. H. Post, based on Justin Huntly McCarthy’s play If I Were King , itself based on the novel by R. H. Russellebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt

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