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Guy Bolton

Guy Reginald Bolton (November 23, 1884 - September 6, 1979) was a British

Great Britain

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-American

United States

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playwright

Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
and writer of musical comedies

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece ? humor, pathos, love, anger ? as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole....
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Born Guy Reginald Bolton to American parents in Broxbourne

Broxbourne

Broxbourne is a commuter town in the Broxbourne borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England with a population of 13,298 in 2001.It is located 17.1 miles north north-east of Charing Cross in London and about a mile north of Wormley, Hertfordshire and south of Hoddesdon....
, Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire is a Ceremonial counties of England and Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England Counties of England in the East of England region of England....
, England

England

Architecture

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before beginning his writing career in 1914 with the play The Rule of Three. Additional plays include The Fallen Idol, Nobody Home, Children, Polly with a Past, The Five Million, Adam and Eva, The Cave Girl, Polly Preferred, Chicken Feed, Grounds for Divorce, Golden Wings, Child of Fortune, and Anastasia, the 1956 screen adaptation

Anastasia (1956 film)

Anastasia is a 1956 in film 20th Century Fox historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes....
of which starred Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman

was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
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In 1915 Bolton made his first foray into musical theatre

Musical theatre

Jerome Kern

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Guy Reginald Bolton (November 23, 1884 - September 6, 1979) was a British

Great Britain

United States

Playwright

Musical theatre

Broxbourne

Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire is a Ceremonial counties of England and Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England Counties of England in the East of England region of England....
, England

England

Architecture

Anastasia (1956 film)

Anastasia is a 1956 in film 20th Century Fox historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes....
of which starred Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman

Musical theatre

Jerome Kern

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
musical credits include Very Good Eddie
Very Good Eddie

Very Good Eddie is a musical theatre with a book by Guy Bolton and Philip Bartholomae, music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics by Schuyler Green, with additional lyrics by P....
, Oh, Boy!
Oh, Boy! (musical)

Oh, Boy! is a musical theatre in two acts, with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse. The story concerns befuddled George, who elopes with Lou Ellen, the daughter of Judge Carter....
, Have a Heart, Sitting Pretty, and Sally
Sally (musical)

Sally is a musical theater with music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Clifford Grey and book by Guy Bolton , with additional lyrics by Buddy De Sylva, Anne Caldwell and P....
with Jerome Kern

Jerome Kern

Jerome David Kern was an American composer of popular music. He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance ", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", and "Who? ", a 6-week #1 hit for George Olsen & his Orchestra in 1925....
, Anything Goes
Anything Goes

Anything Goes is a musical theater with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, revised by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse....
with Cole Porter

Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
, Rosalie
Rosalie

Rosalie is an United States musical theatre play first produced in 1928. It was later adapted as a musical film by MGM in 1937.The story tells of a princess from a faraway land who comes to United States and falls in love with a United States Military Academy military cadet....
, Lady Be Good
Lady Be Good (musical)

Lady, Be Good is the title of a Broadway theatre musical play that was written by Guy Bolton, Fred Thompson , featured music by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin....
, Tip-Toes
Tip-Toes

Tip-Toes is a musical theatre with a book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. It centers on a vaudeville act known as the Three Kayes - comprised of Al, Uncle Hen, and Tip-Toes - who try to pass themselves off as aristocracy in the upper class community of Palm Beach, Florida....
, Oh, Kay!
Oh, Kay!

Oh, Kay! is a musical theatre with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and a book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse. It is based on the play La Presidente by Maurice Hanniquin and Pierre Veber....
with P.G. Wodehouse, and Girl Crazy
Girl Crazy

Girl Crazy is a musical theatre with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan. It is remembered as the show that made stars of both Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman ....
with George Gershwin

George Gershwin

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
, Anya
Anya (musical)

Anya is a musical theatre with a book by George Abbott and Guy Bolton and music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest . As they had done with Song of Norway and Kismet , Wright and Forrest developed the musical score using themes written by a classical composer, in this case Sergei Rachmaninov....
with George Abbott

George Abbott

George Francis Abbott was an American theater producer and theatre director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and film producer whose career spanned more than seven decades....
, Ankles Aweigh
Ankles Aweigh

Ankles Aweigh is a musical theatre with a book by Guy Bolton and Eddie Davis, lyrics by Dan Shapiro, and music by Sammy Fain.The plot centers on Hollywood starlet Wynne, who violates a clause in her contract by marrying Navy flyer Bill while filming a movie in Sicily....
with Sammy Fain

Sammy Fain

Sammy Fain was an American composer of popular music....
, Rio Rita
Rio Rita (musical)

For other uses of Rio Rita, see Rio Rita Rio Rita is a 1927 stage musical theatre with a book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, music by Harry Tierney, lyrics by Joseph McCarthy, and produced by Florenz Ziegfeld....
, and Follow the Girls
Follow the Girls

Follow the Girls is a musical theatre with a book by Guy Bolton and Eddie Davis and music and lyrics by Dan Shapiro, Milton Pascal, and Phil Charig....
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Bolton's screen credits include Week-End at the Waldorf
Week-End at the Waldorf

Week-End at the Waldorf is a 1945 United States drama film.An updated version of the classic Grand Hotel , it focuses on various guests staying at New York City's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel....
, Till the Clouds Roll By
Till the Clouds Roll By

Till The Clouds Roll By is an United States musical film-biography film made by MGM in 1946 in film.The film is a fictionalized biography of composer Jerome Kern, who was originally involved with the production of the film, but died before it was completed....
, and Ziegfeld Follies
Ziegfeld Follies (film)

Ziegfeld Follies is a 1946 Hollywood Musical film comedy film, directed by Roy Del Ruth and Vincente Minnelli, starring many of MGM leading talents, including Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, James Melton, Victor Moore, William Powell, Red Skelton, and Esther Williams....
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Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Order of the British Empire was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read....
co-authored the autobiographical Bring on the Girls
Bring on the Girls

Bring on the Girls! is a semi-autobiographical collaboration between P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, first published in the United States on October 5 1953 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on May 21 1954 by Herbert Jenkins, London....
, a chronicle of their Broadway experiences. Bolton was married four times. His second wife was opera

Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
singer Marguerite Namara

Marguerite Namara

Marguerite Namara was a classically trained American lyric soprano whose varied career included serious opera, Broadway musicals, film and theater roles, and vocal recitals, and who counted among her lifelong circle of friends and acquaintances many of the leading artistic figures of the first half of the twentieth century....
; their daughter Peggy, who died in 2003, was his last surviving child.

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