William Eythe

On stage 4 productions, 8 years

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Worked with more than once2 names

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking.

In the literature8 passages

• Act One: “March of the Guards” (Robert Penn, Edward Bryce, William Hogue, Laurence Weber, Walter Matthau); “The Ladies’ Opinion” (Jean Handzlik, May Muth, Lee Wilcox, Margery Oldroyd, Marybelle Norton); “You’ve Stolen My Heart” (Glenn Burris); “The Liar’s Song” (William Eythe, Joshua Shelley); “Supper Trio” (William Eythe, Joshua Shelley,…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act Two: “Women’s Work” (music by Lehman Engel) (Paula Laurence, with Jean Handzlik, Lee Wilcox, and May Muth); “Spring” (Paula Laurence, Russell Collins); “Stomachs and Stomachs” (Joshua Shelley); “A Jewel of a Duel” (Robert Penn, Barbara Moser, Karen Lindgen, Paula Laurence, Melville Cooper, Philip Coolidge, William Eythe, Joshua Shelle…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Based on Carlo Goldoni’s eighteenth-century commedia dell’arte–styled comedy Il Bugiardo , The Liar ’s title character Lelio (William Eythe) can’t stop lying and can’t stop chasing the ladies, including Rosaura (Barbara Moser) and Beatrice (Karen Lindgren), the two daughters of Doctor Balanzoni (Philip Coolidge), who are respectively and…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Watts felt William Eythe was “competent enough,” but lacked “the proper romantic style and humorous flourish . . . he strives manfully to fabricate an air of satirical bravado that is not forthcoming”; the Times said he fell short of the “kind of powerful authenticity that could dominate the stage and make a theatre glow”; and Garland fel…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• During the tryout, the musical’s most famous song, “From This Moment On,” was deleted. It was sung by Priscilla Gillette and William Eythe, and theatrical urban legend says it was dropped because Eythe was unable to properly handle and project the song. This excuse sounds a bit specious; the creators must certainly have realized that here…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Besides “From This Moment On” and “You Don’t Remind Me,” other songs deleted during the tryout were: “Hush, Hush, Hush” (for Barbara Ashley); “We’re on the Road to Athens” (for Priscilla Gillette, William Eythe, and William Redford); and “Dance of the Gods” (an early first-act dance sequence). With the deletions of “From This Moment On” a…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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