Sophie Tucker

On stage 4 productions, 22 years

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In the literature8 passages

• Hutton’s program biography indicated her current appearance at the Palace was a “forerunner” to her portrayal of Sophie Tucker in Some of These Days , an upcoming film version of Tucker’s life. The film was never made, but ten years later the Broadway musical Sophie opened (and quickly closed, after eight performances). The lyrics and mus…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The vaudeville approach also helped Kander and Ebb to write of an era they remembered from their youth. The score had echoes of Sophie Tucker (“When You’re Good to Mama”), Bert Walker (“Mr. Cellophane”), Eddie Cantor (“Me and My Baby”), and Helen Morgan (“Funny Honey”).ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Cast: William Gaxton, Victor Moore, Sophie Tucker, Tamara, Mary Martin, Edward H. Robins, Alexander Asro, George Tobias, Gene Kellyebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• “Steve Allen’s books, which most people have no idea exist, have one redeeming feature: you can put them down. Sophie Tucker’s estate should have sued when he wrote the score for Sophie . That music had about as much to do with her as I do with Alfred Hitchcock. It was a terrible show, bitterly disappointing in relation to what it could h…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• “As to how talented and big a star Libi might have become, sadly we will never know.”—STEVE ALLEN on Sophie , about Sophie Tucker (by contrast, Funny Girl , about another offbeat Jewish singer-comedienne, Fanny Brice, was a hit and a star-maker)ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• If Ethel owed aspects of her singing style to any one performer, it was probably Sophie Tucker. Born into a poor Russian-Jewish family in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1886, Tucker shouted her way through a long, long career. While her full-barreled contralto was used to good effect in such torch numbers as her signature tune, “Some of These…ebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt

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