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William Anthony McGuire

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Book WriterDirector 1881–1940

William Anthony McGuire (July 9, 1881 – September 16, 1940) was an American playwright, theatre director, and producer and screenwriter, including The Kid From Spain (1932) starring Eddie Cantor. McGuire earned an Oscar nomination for the 1936 film The Great Ziegfeld, the Best Picture Oscar winner of 1936. Born in Chicago, Illinois, McGuire made his Broadway debut in 1910 as author of the play The Heights. He went on to write, direct, and produce Twelve Miles Out (1925) and If I Was Rich (1926) and write and direct Rosalie (1928), Whoopee! (1928), The Three Musketeers (1928), and Show Girl (1929). McGuire is quoted by the gossip columnist Sidney Skolsky as saying of his profession and milieu…

Also credited on5 works

Rosalie
The Three Musketeers
Whoopee
Betsy
Show Girl

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In the literature8 passages

  • The Three Musketeers (lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and Clifford Grey, book by William Anthony McGuire) featured scenes from Alexandre Dumas’s novel of swashbuckling adventure. The score included such arresting numbers as ‘Ma Belle’, ‘One Kiss’, ‘My Dreams’, ‘My Sword and I’ and the heroic ‘March of the Musketeers’. The Queen’s ‘My Dreams’ is…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
  • Kid boots were a stylish item of footwear, but writers William Anthony McGuire and Otto Harbach used the term as the nickname of the central character, Samuel "Kid" Boots, an insouciantly corrupt caddymaster who sells both crooked golf balls and bootleg booze. Both activities make him very popular-and get him into all kinds of trouble-at…ebooks/Viagas, Robert/I'm the Greatest Star_ Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today - Robert Viagas.txt
  • 192L Kid Boots (1923). Book: William Anthony McGuire and Otto Harbach; lyrics: Joseph McCarthy; music: Harry Tierney. Musical comedy that takes place in Florida at the fashionable Everglades Golf Club, where Kid Boots plies his trades of golf caddie, golf pro, bootlegger,theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • Whoopee (1928). Book: William Anthony McGuire; Gus Kahn; music: Walter Donaldson. Musical comedy based on The Nervous Wreck, a Broadway comlyrics:theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • Bolton and William Anthony McGuire; the “‘romance in fine feathers”’ was supplied by operetta’s chief minstrel, Sigmundtheatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt
  • ary 10, 1928. 335 performances. Music by George Gershwin and Sigmund Romberg. Lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and Ira Gershwin. Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld. Book by William Anthony McGuire and Guy Bolton. Staged by Florenz Ziegfeld, Seymour Felix, and William Anthony McGuire. Orchestra under the direction of Oscar Bradley. Orchestrations by Ha…theatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.txt

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