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Oscar Hammerstein I (8 May 1846 – 1 August 1919) was a German-born businessman, theater impresario, and composer in New York City. His passion for opera led him to open several opera houses, and he rekindled opera's popularity in America.
Oscar Hammerstein may refer to: Oscar Hammerstein I (1846–1919), cigar manufacturer, opera impresario and theatre builder Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), Broadway lyricist, songwriting partner of Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers
Oscar Hammerstein II: Oscar Hammerstein II Carmen Jones (1954) Otto Preminger: Carousel (1945) Richard Rodgers: Oscar Hammerstein II: Oscar Hammerstein II Carousel (1956) Henry King: Carousel (1967) Paul Bogart: The Cat and the Fiddle (1931) Jerome Kern: Otto Harbach: Otto Harbach The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) William K. Howard: Chicago (1975 ...
The company began operations in 1906 at the Manhattan Opera House on 34th Street in New York City.Hammerstein built the house with the initial intent of making it a home for performances solely of opera in English; before construction was completed, however, he chose to shift the company's focus, deciding instead to present great operas in their original languages.
Viennese Nights was the first of four original screen musicals that the team of Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II were to create for Warner Brothers over a two-year period. They were to be paid $100,000 a piece per film against 25 percent of the profits.
The original requirement was only that the nominated song appear in a motion picture during the previous year. This rule was changed after the 1941 Academy Awards, when "The Last Time I Saw Paris", from the film Lady Be Good, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, won. Kern was upset that his song won because it had been ...
The Olympia Theatre (1514–16 Broadway at 44th Street), also known as Hammerstein's Olympia and later the Lyric Theatre and the New York Theatre, was a theater complex built by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I at Longacre Square (later Times Square) in Manhattan, New York City, opening in 1895.
Liliom was a failure in Hungary when it was staged there in 1909, but not when it was staged on Broadway in an English translation by Benjamin Glazer in 1921. The Theatre Guild production starred Joseph Schildkraut and Eva Le Gallienne, with supporting roles played by such actors as Dudley Digges, Edgar Stehli, Henry Travers and Helen Westley.