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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a 1954 American musical film, directed by Stanley Donen, with music by Gene de Paul, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and choreography by Michael Kidd. The screenplay, by Albert Hackett , Frances Goodrich , and Dorothy Kingsley , is based on the short story "The Sobbin' Women", by Stephen Vincent Benét , which was ...
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a musical with a book by Lawrence Kasha and David Landay, music by Gene de Paul, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn.
In 1983, Mercer earned a posthumous nomination for a Tony Award for Best Original Score for his original lyrics and for Gene de Paul's original music and score with new songs by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn for the stage musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at the 37th Tony Awards, [47] but lost to Andrew Lloyd Webber and T. S. Eliot for Cats.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is an American musical television series, loosely based on the 1954 film of the same name, which ran on CBS from September 19, 1982, to March 23, 1983. [ 1 ] Synopsis
Ruta Lee appeared as one of the brides in the musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. She had roles in films including Billy Wilder 's crime drama Witness for the Prosecution and Stanley Donen 's musical comedy Funny Face , and also is remembered for her guest appearance in a 1963 episode of Rod Serling 's sci-fi series The Twilight Zone ...
Paul Lincke, the original German lyrics by Heinz Bolten-Backers, English lyrics by Johnny Mercer The Mills Brothers 3 weeks at No. 1 in 1952 (Billboard charts) 1936 Goody Goody: Matty Malneck: Frankie Lymon (#20 in the US and No. 24 in the UK 1943 Hit the Road to Dreamland: Harold Arlen 1937 Hooray for Hollywood: Richard A. Whiting: 1941 I ...
[2] In Seven Brides for Seven Brothers he employed leading ballet dancers, but insisted that his dancers avoid ballet dance moves, and instead focus on "work movements like ax wielding". [10] In choreographing Seven Brides, Kidd once said that he "had to find a way to have these backwoods men dance without looking ridiculous. I had to base it ...
De Paul was one of the composers of the songs and dances, along with lyricist Johnny Mercer, for the 1954 musical film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. [1] He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985. [3] Gene de Paul died in February 1988, at the age of 68, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood ...