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Sweet Little Devil

Shows · Sweet Little Devil

Virginia, a scheming Southern belle, plots to steal her best friend's fiance, a young inventor who has created a new type of airplane fuel. Through a series of romantic manipulations at a resort in the Catskills, Virginia nearly succeeds, but the inventor eventually sees through her wiles and returns to his true love.

Opened
1924
Performances
120
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: George GershwinLyrics: B. G. DeSylvaBook: Frank Mandel, Laurence Schwab

Productions1 on Broadway

1924 Astor Theatre Original. January 21, 1924 · Edgar MacGregor 120 performances

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In the literature2 passages

DE SYLVA, who went on to become producer at 20th Century Fox and Paramount, and founder of Capitol Records, wrote songs and scores for: Sinbad (18); La, La Lucille (19); Sally (20); Bombo (21); The Broadway Whirl (21); The French Doll (22); Orange Blossoms (22); Sweet Little Devil (24); Big Boy (25); Captain Jinks (25)… book:the-best-musicals-from-show-boat-to-a-chorus-line-by-arthur-jackson-foreword-by-#p142

DeSylva later revised the lyric again for Sweet Little Devil (1924), but the song was deleted prior to the pre-Broadway tryout. book:the-complete-lyrics-of-ira-gershwin-gershwin-ira-1896-1983#p39

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