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...Sometimes, singing is also performed. Chorus line [[dancer]]s in Broadway musicals and revues were called '''ponies''', but are now called '''gypsies'''. A '' ==Musicals==

"<I>'''George White's Scandals'''</I>" were a long-running string of Broadway revues produced by [[George White (producer)|George White]] that ran from 1 ...lice Faye. Flapper-era cartoonist and designer Russell Patterson worked on Broadway in various capacities; for George White's Scandals of 1936, he served as sc

...commonly associated with especially exuberant types of performance such as musicals, cheerleading, show choir, revue, and especially jazz dance shows. In cheer ...f jazz hands was [[Bob Fosse]], who incorporated them in nearly all of his Broadway and film musical choreography. The best example of this is in the movie "<I

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...tial and signed her up. She began her film career co-starring in secondary musicals, often paired with either [[Dennis Morgan]] or [[Jack Carson]]. She later w She then took to the Broadway boards and scored a huge hit with the 1951 comedy-mystery play, ''Remains t

...mposer, [[dancer]], dramatist, lyricist and [[screenwriter]], as well as a Broadway theater-owner. ...would provide the impetus for his own career as a theatrical impresario on Broadway.[1] White appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1911 and 1915; in the latter

...th [[Ginger Rogers]], with whom he co-starred in a series of ten Hollywood musicals during the age of Classical Hollywood cinema, including ''Top Hat'' (1935),

...he cast of the Ziegfeld Follies in 1927. Then she appeared in the Broadway musicals Whoopee and Smiles. Jean also worked as a model and appeared in ads for Luc

...s for his productions featuring the most lightly clad {{lc2|showgirl}}s on Broadway. Damon Runyon, in his short story “The Brain Goes Home” has the narrato Carroll wrote the scores for Broadway shows including "<I>So Long Letty</I>", "<I>Canary Cottage</I>", and "<I>Th

: ''This article is about the 1920s Broadway revue. For the 1945 film, see [[Earl Carroll Vanities (film)]].'' '''The Earl Carroll Vanities''' was a Broadway revue that Earl Carroll presented in the 1920s and early 1930s. Carroll and

...act Martin and Lewis weren't even the top-billed act. That honor went to a Broadway singing star named Vivian Blaine, who'd conquered Manhattan, gone out to Ho ...ine as Miss Adelaide and Sam Levene as Nathan Detroit in the 1950 original Broadway production of "<I>Guys and Dolls</I>". ]]

| known_for = Popular songs, ragtime, Broadway musicals, [[show tune]]s ...s Ragtime Band", in 1911. He also was an owner of the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. For much of his career, Berlin could not read sheet music, and was such a

...the youngest [[Rockettes]] at Radio City Music Hall. This led to roles on Broadway in ''Panama Hattie, By Jupiter, and A Connecticut Yankee'', where she was s ...''Wonder Man'', her first film, her singing was dubbed. However, the Decca Broadway Original Cast Album of 1943's revival of ''A Connecticut Yankee'' has two v

...from show business in the 1940s, but made a widely publicized comeback on Broadway in 1971. ...El Fay nightclub, a speakeasy frequented by gangsters. She was noticed by Broadway producer Charles B. Dillingham, who gave her a role in ''Bye, Bye, Bonnie''

...Kent (James Cagney) replaces his failing career as a director of Broadway musicals with a new one as the creator of musical numbers called "prologues", short ...n company Fanchon and Marco. Cagney had gotten his start in vaudeville and Broadway before going into film work; the film became his first on-screen appearance

...pular and enduring tunes from the 1920s to the 1950s that were created for Broadway, musical, and Hollywood musical film. ...Songbook" as follows: "Tunes of Broadway musical theatre, Hollywood movie musicals and Tin Pan Alley (the hub of songwriting that was the music publishers' ro

...atterns. His musical numbers were among the largest and best-regimented on Broadway. The only way they'd get any larger was if Berkeley moved to films, and he His earliest movie jobs were on Samuel Goldwyn's [[Eddie Cantor]] musicals, where he began developing such techniques as a "parade of faces" (individu

...finally hit her mark (starting in the late 1940s) in her roles in [[MGM]] musicals such as "<I>[[Kiss Me, Kate]]</I>", "<I>Easter Parade</I>", and "<I>On the ...eteran Mickey Rooney, which toured the United States extensively after its Broadway run. In 1983 she won the [[Sarah Siddons Award]] for her work in Chicago th

...the second leads in the brightly colored, high energy film version of the Broadway musical, "Best Foot Forward" (1943), which also got [[June Allyson]] off an ...comedy (''"The Yellow Cab Man"'' 1950). Her best films in this period were musicals, as she gamely supported [[Gene Kelly]] and [[Judy Garland]] in ''"Summer S