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Animal Crackers is a musical play with music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind.The musical starred the Marx Brothers and is set at the Long Island Home of Mrs. Rittenhouse; a character portrayed by Margaret Dumont in the 1928 production on Broadway.
The Broadway production was produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, directed by McGuire, and choreographed by Bobby Connolly, with ballet sequences—including one set to An American in Paris—by Albertina Rasch. Duke Ellington conducted the orchestra. The show opened on July 2, 1929 at the Ziegfeld Theatre and ran for 111 performances.
In 1961, a film version of A Raisin in the Sun was released featuring its original Broadway cast of Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett Jr. and John Fiedler. Hansberry wrote the screenplay, and the film was directed by Daniel Petrie.
The story revolves around the cast and crew rehearsing for a Broadway show at the height of the Great Depression. 42nd Street was one of the most successful motion pictures of 1933, earning almost $1.5 million at the box office. At the 6th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Picture.
Ethel Ruby Keeler [1] (August 25, 1909 [1] – February 28, 1993) was a Canadian-born American actress, dancer, and singer who was paired on-screen with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Bros., particularly 42nd Street (1933). From 1928 to 1940, she was married to actor and singer Al Jolson.
Davis, who originated the role of Purlie in the Broadway premiere opposite his wife, Ruby Dee, who played Lutiebelle, sets up the situation with mathematical precision. Farce is a feat of ...
The ruby slippers from 1939’s The Wizard of Oz are now the most expensive piece of film memorabilia in history. The shoes, worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy in the beloved film, sold at auction in ...
The story is based on the play The Gold Diggers by Avery Hopwood, which had its Broadway run for 717 performances in 1919 and 1920. [5] The play was adapted into a silent film in 1923 by David Belasco , the producer of the Broadway play, as The Gold Diggers , starring Hope Hampton and Wyndham Standing , and again as a talkie in 1929, directed ...