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William Kent

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Actor b. 1955 On stage 1918–1934

William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. He is especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s, constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second's to two seconds' screen time. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These palimpsest-like drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art. Kentridge has created artwork as part of design of theatrical productions, both plays and o…

On stage 11 productions, 16 years

1918 Ladies First Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Frank Smithson 164 perf.
1918 Somebody's Sweetheart Central Theatre · Original 224 perf.
1919 Shubert Gaieties of 1919 44th Street Theatre · Original · directed by J. C. Huffman 87 perf.
1920 Pitter Patter Longacre Theatre · Original 111 perf.
1921 Good Morning Dearie Globe Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Royce 347 perf.
1923 Battling Buttler Selwyn Theatre · Original · directed by Guy F. Bragdon 313 perf.
1924 Rose-Marie Imperial Theatre · Original · directed by Paul Dickey 557 perf.
1927 Funny Face Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Edgar MacGregor 244 perf.
1930 Girl Crazy Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Alexander Leftwich 272 perf.
1932 A Little Racketeer 44th Street Theatre · Original · directed by William Caryl 48 perf.
1934 Music Hath Charms Majestic Theatre · Original · directed by Alex Yakovleff 25 perf.

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Worked with more than once10 names

Ona Hamilton 2 productions
Norman Curtis 2 productions
Mildred Keats 2 productions
Lionel Maclyn 2 productions
John Price Jones 2 productions
Elsie Shaw 2 productions
Elsie Neal 2 productions
Bob Gebhardt 2 productions
Arthur Craig 2 productions
Allen Kearns 2 productions

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. 8 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

In the literature8 passages

  • Cast: Mary Ellis, Dennis King, William Kent, Dorothy Mackaye, Eduardo Ciannelli, Pearl Regay, Arthur Deagonebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Fred & Adele Astaire, Victor Moore, William Kent, Allen Kearns, Betty Compton, Dorothy Jordanebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Willie Howard, Allen Kearns, Ginger Rogers, William Kent, Ethel Merman, Antonio & Renee DeMarco, Lew Parker, Roger Edens, Red Nichols Orchestraebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • C AST : Allen Kearns, Ginger Rogers, Willie Howard, Ethel Merman (as Kate Fothergill), William Kent, Peggy O’Connor, Eunice Healy, Lew Parker, Carlton Macy, Clyde Veaux, Olive Brady, Chief Rivers, Donald Fosterebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
  • Merman had a role in the plot, playing “Why, you—” comedy with her inattentive husband (William Kent) and offering sympathy to the Boy (Allen Kearns) after the Girl (Ginger Rogers) humiliated him in the first-act finale. Right from the start, Merman barked out her lines as if they were all marked “loud and funny,” and her excellent dictio…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • PC: Dick Trevor : Fred Astaire; Susie Trevor : Adele Astaire; J. Watterson Watkins : William Kent; Rufus Parke : Denier Warren [later C. Denier Warren]; Bertie Bassett : Ewart Scott; Jeff : Buddy Lee; Jack Robinson : George Vollaire; Daisy Parke : Glori [sic ] Beaumont; Shirley Vernon : Irene Russellebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt

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