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Wynn Murray

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ActorOn stage 19371948

Wynn Murray was an American singer-actress who introduced "Johnny One-Note" in Rodgers and Hart's Babes in Arms (1937) and appeared in The Boys from Syracuse.

On stage 6 productions, 11 years

1937 Babes in Arms Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Sinclair 289 perf.
1938 The Boys from Syracuse Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by George Abbott 235 perf.
1940 All in Fun Majestic Theatre · Original · directed by John Murray Anderson 3 perf.
1941 Sons o' Fun Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Duryea Dowling 742 perf.
1942 The Lady Comes Across 44th Street Theatre · Original · directed by George Balanchine 3 perf.
1948 Heaven on Earth New Century Theatre · Original · directed by Eddie Dowling 12 perf.

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Worked with more than once10 names

Jack Whitney 3 productions
Stella Clauson 2 productions
Ronald Graham 2 productions
Micky Alvarez 2 productions
Libby Bennett 2 productions
June Graham 2 productions
Davenie Watson 2 productions
Connie Leslie 2 productions
Claire Harvey 2 productions
Betty de Elmo 2 productions

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In the literature8 passages

  • Cast: Mitzi Green, Wynn Murray, Ray Heatherton, Duke McHale, Alfred Drake, Ray McDonald, Grace McDonald, Nicholas Brothers, Dan Daileyebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Scene from Babes in Arms, with Wynn Murray as Baby Rose. New York, Shubert Theatre, 1937. [Culver Pictures]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • Wonderful Wynn Murray, introducing “Johnny One Note,” in the climactic amateur-show seguence. The idea was that Wynn was a young mother telling her baby a bedtime story about Johnny One Note, the show-off opera star whose leading lady had her fairy godmother put a curse on him.theatre-pdfs/Thou Swell Thou Witty-The Life and Lyrics of Lorenz Hart - Hart, Dorothy.txt
  • Way Out West i Originally sung by Wynn Murray, Alex Courtney, Robert Rounseville, James Cillis and Ted Gary f VERSEtheatre-pdfs/Thou Swell Thou Witty-The Life and Lyrics of Lorenz Hart - Hart, Dorothy.txt
  • , stars of Babes in Arms, romping for photographers before the show went into rehearsal: HOiiy ncKeri. uiaee zi Green, Ray McDonald and Wynn Murray (left to right).theatre-pdfs/Thou Swell Thou Witty-The Life and Lyrics of Lorenz Hart - Hart, Dorothy.txt
  • Marcy Westcott, Wynn Murray and Muriel Angelus (left to right) doing "Sing for Your Supper,” a number which combined the best of Hart, Rodgers and Balanchine. From the opening night on, this song stopped the show.theatre-pdfs/Thou Swell Thou Witty-The Life and Lyrics of Lorenz Hart - Hart, Dorothy.txt

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