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Fine And Dandy

Shows · Fine And Dandy

Fine and Dandy, a follow-up to his popular vehicle, Rain or Shine, not only included the Cook specialties but also featured a superior score (including the durable title song), the tapping of Eleanor Powell, and a tale that found Cook as Joe Squibb, the general manager of the Fordyce Drop Forge and Tool Factory, who ineptly copes with problems of labor and management.

Opened
1930
Performances
255
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Kay SwiftLyrics: Paul JamesBook: Donald Ogden Stewart (Joe Cook uncredited)

Productions1 on Broadway

1930 Erlanger’s Theatre Original. September 23, 1930 · Morris Green, Frank McCoy 255 performances

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Boulden, Alice Fine and Dandy, 72 book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p353

Fine and Dandy (9/23/30; 246 performances) boasted a good score by one of Broadway’s few female composers, Kay Swift, and her husband, Paul James. It included two hits, the title tune and “Can This Be Love.” The cast included comedian Joe Cook, dancer Eleanor Powell, and future Hollywood restauranteur Dave Chasen. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p495

23 September: Fine and Dandy, with music by Kay Swift and lyrics by Paul James, opens at the Erlanger Theater, one of the few musicals of the period by a female composer. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p20

Broadway’s first exceptional female composer, which is to say a good composer who happened not to be a man, was Kay Swift (1905-1995). Swift gained instant acclaim as the stock market tumbled, with two brilliant revue songs— “Can't We Be Friends?” and “Can This Be Love”—and the hit show Fine and Dandy (1930), whose tit… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p849

Joe Cook (1890-1959) in Fine and Dandy (1930). book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p250

Can’t We Be Friends?” (lyric by Paul James and music by Kay Swift, the team who wrote the score for Fine and Dandy). It played for 321 performances, and its trio of stars Clifton Webb, Fred Allen, and Libby Holman were highly acclaimed. book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p90

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