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St. Louis Woman
''St. Louis Woman'' is a 1946 American musical theatre, musical by Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullen with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer (lyrics). The musical opened at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York on March 30, 1946, and ran for 113 performances. The original cast included Robert Pope (Badfoot), Harold Nicholas (Little Augie), Fayard Nicholas (Barney), June Hawkins (Lilli), Pearl Bailey (Butterfly), Ruby Hill (sunger3), Ruby Hill (Della Green), Rex Ingram (actor), Rex Ingram (Biglow Brown), and Milton J. Williams (Mississippi). The production's scenic designer and costume designer was Lemuel Ayers. It is based upon the novel ''God Sends Sunday'' by African-American writer Arna Bontemps. Background The idea for the ''St. Louis Woman'' musical was developed by Hollywood producer Ed Gross, who wanted to create a musical based upon Arna Bontemps' novel ''God Sends Sunday''. The novel had already been adapted into a straight theatrical stage play by Bontemps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music, who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. In addition to composing the songs for the 1939 film '' The Wizard of Oz'' (lyrics by Yip Harburg), including " Over the Rainbow", Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook. "Over the Rainbow" was voted the 20th century's No. 1 song by the RIAA and the NEA. Life and career Arlen was born in Buffalo, New York, the child of a Jewish cantor. His twin brother died the next day. He learned to play the piano as a youth, and formed a band as a young man. He achieved some local success as a pianist and singer before moving to New York City in his early twenties, where he worked as an accompanist in vaudeville and changed his name to Harold Arlen. Between 1926 and about 1934, Arlen appeared occasionally as a band vocalist on records by The Buffalodians, Red Nichols, Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Gross
Ed, ed or ED may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Ed'' (film), a 1996 film starring Matt LeBlanc * Ed (''Fullmetal Alchemist'') or Edward Elric, a character in ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' media * ''Ed'' (TV series), a TV series that ran from 2000 to 2004 Businesses and organizations * Ed (supermarket), a French brand of discount stores founded in 1978 * Consolidated Edison, from their NYSE stock symbol * United States Department of Education, a department of the United States government * Enforcement Directorate, a law enforcement and economic intelligence agency in India * European Democrats, a loose association of conservative political parties in Europe * Airblue (IATA code ED), a private Pakistani airline * Eagle Dynamics, a Swiss software company Places * Ed, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States * Ed, Sweden, a town in Dals-Ed, Sweden * Erode Junction railway station, station code ED Health and medicine * Eating disorder, mental disorders def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come Rain Or Come Shine
"Come Rain or Come Shine" is a popular music song, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was written for the Broadway musical '' St. Louis Woman'', which opened on March 30, 1946, and closed after 113 performances. Chart performance It "became a modest hit during the show's run, making the pop charts with a Margaret Whiting (Paul Weston and His Orchestra) recording rising to number seventeen, and, shortly after, a Helen Forrest and Dick Haymes recording rising to number twenty-three." Other recordings The song has subsequently been recorded by a host of artists, including: *In 1955, Billie Holiday included it on her ''Music for Torching'' LP. *In 1956, Judy Garland included it on her '' Judy'' LP, as well her 1961 live album, ''Judy at Carnegie Hall''. *In 1956, Fran Warren included it on her album ''Mood Indigo''. *In 1958, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers recorded it for their album released in 1959, ''Moanin’''. *In 1959, Connie Francis included it on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
"Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" is a popular song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was first introduced in 1946 in the musical '' St. Louis Woman''. In the musical, the song was sung by a female character of easy virtue, played by Ruby Hill, and the lyrics start out, "Free and easy". The score by Arlen provides a languid accompaniment, not dissimilar to that of "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)", also by Arlen and Mercer. Barbra Streisand Recording Barbra Streisand recorded the song for '' The Second Barbra Streisand Album'' in 1963. The song appeared on the album twice: first, as the individual song to open the album; then to close the album as a medley with "Like a Straw in the Wind". Notable Recordings Many well-known vocalists have recorded the song including: * Rosemary Clooney - '' Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Johnny Mercer'' (1987) * Sammy Davis, Jr. - '' That's All!'' (1967) *Judy Garland - '' Judy'' (1956) * Lena Horne - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Wood (actor)
Milton LeGrand Wood III (August 21, 1922 – July 16, 2015) was a bishop suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta from 1967 to 1974. Background Wood was born in Selma, Alabama, on August 21, 1922, to Milton Wood Sr. and Roberta Hawkins Wood. He attended the University of the South, receiving his bachelor's degree and later his Master of Divinity, graduating in 1945. Bishop Carpenter of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama ordained him as a deacon on November 18, 1945, in St. John's Episcopal Church (Montgomery, Alabama), and later as a priest on August 24, 1946. In 1949, Milton Wood married Ann Scott. In 1963, Bishop Randolph Royall Claiborne Jr. of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta called Father Wood to serve as Canon to the Ordinary. He also served as rector of All Saints' Church, Atlanta, Georgia for eight years, having also served at the Appleton Home in Macon, Georgia. In 1967 he was elected bishop suffragan to assist Bishop Claiborne. He served in that capacity until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Fuller
Lorenzo Dow Fuller Jr. (March 22, 1919 – January 8, 2011) was an American singer, musician, actor, and musical director. He was an original cast member of ''Finian's Rainbow'' and '' Kiss Me, Kate'', and in the radio show ''Van and the Genie'' was the first male African-American actor to star opposite a white woman. His television show ''Musical Miniatures'' was also the first to be fronted by a black performer. Biography Fuller was born in Stockton, Kansas, the son of L.D. Fuller Sr. and Effie Green Fuller. His father was a successful newspaper publisher and founder of the Fuller Concert Company, which produced shows throughout the Midwest and into Canada and Mexico. By the age of eight, the younger Lorenzo Fuller had begun performing as a harpist on local radio shows, and in his family's troupe. At the age of 15, he began studying opera and classical music at the University of Kansas, and while studying had a regular monthly show on KFKU radio. He was the first black perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita Hall
Juanita Hall (née Long, November 6, 1901 – February 29, 1968) was an American musical theatre and film actress. She is remembered for her roles in the original stage and screen versions of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals '' South Pacific'' as Bloody Mary – a role that garnered her the Tony Award – and ''Flower Drum Song'' as Madame Liang. Early years Born in Keyport, New Jersey, to an African-American father and Irish-American mother, Hall (along with three siblings) was raised by her maternal grandparents after her mother's death. She attended Bordentown Industrial School and graduated from Keyport High School. She also received classical training at the Juilliard School. Career Soon after she finished high school, Hall worked in the Lincoln settlement house in East Orange, New Jersey, teaching music to children during the day and to an adult chorus at night. In the early 1930s, she was a special soloist and assistant director for the Hall Johnson Choir. A leadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elwood Smith (actor)
Elwood Smith was an actor in theatrical productions and films. He acted in several theatrical productions and performed the roles of Ragsdale and Compere in the New York productions of ''St. Louis Woman'' and '' Four Saints in Three Acts'', respectively. Smith was educated at Juilliard and sang with the Xavier University Opera Guild. He was a featured performer on a New Orleans radio show sponsored by American Brewing Company's Regal beer. Theater *''Home of the Hunter'' (1945) *''St. Louis Woman'' (1946) *'' City of Kings (play)'' *''Pot Luck'' (1953) *''The Love of Don Perlimplín for Belisa in Their Garden'', an adaptation of Federico García Lorca's play '' The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden''. *'' A Raisin in the Sun'' (National Tour, 1960) Filmography Film *''Boy! What a Girl!'' (1947) *''The Fight Never Ends ''The Fight Never Ends'' is an American film with a crime fighting theme released in 1948. It was directed by Joe Lerner, with a cast that incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruby Hill (singer)
Ruby Hill Turner (1922 – 2004) was an American singer who starred in the 1946 Broadway production ''St. Louis Woman''. She performed the hit songs " Come Rain or Come Shine" and ''Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home'' for more than 100 showings. Capitol Records recorded her. She featured in the 1947 musical compilation film '' Ebony Parade'' made using archival clips. She performed at New York City's Cotton Club and the Ed Sullivan Show. Life and career She was born in Danville, Virginia. The young singer who was a reportedly a high school student in Richmond, Virginia before being discovered and cast in the show was fired in a reorganization, but Pearl Bailey led the ''St Louis Woman'' cast in a promised strike unless Hill was rehired. After 113 performances the show closed. She left show business for 5 years, performing some smaller venues, eventually relating that her management was trying to shape her into a Lena Horne Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Pope (actor) (born 1977), British distance runner
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Robert Pope may refer to: *Rob Pope, American musician *Robert Pope (priest) (1916–2002), Anglican clergyman * Robert Pope (MP) for Gloucester * Robert J. Pope (1865–1949), New Zealand poet, songwriter and teacher *Robert Pope (runner) Robert Pope (born 1977) is a British veterinarian, athlete, author and charity fundraiser. He is an elite distance runner, with a number of successes at the marathon and ultramarathon distances. In 2016 he began a 422-day, 15,700-mile run comprisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cakewalk
The cakewalk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" (dance contests with a cake awarded as the prize) held in the mid-19th century, generally at get-togethers on Black Slavery in the United States, slave plantations before and after End of slavery in the United States of America, emancipation in the Southern United States. Alternative names for the original form of the dance were "chalkline-walk", and the "walk-around". It was originally a processional partner dance danced with comical formality, and may have developed as a subtle mockery of the mannered dances of white slaveholders. Following an exhibition of the cakewalk at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, the cakewalk was adopted by performers in minstrel shows, where it was danced exclusively by men until the 1890s. At that point, Broadway shows featuring women began to include cakewalks, and grotesque dances became very popular across the country.. The fluid and graceful steps of the dance may have g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Louis
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which extends into Illinois, had an estimated population of over 2.8 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the second-largest in Illinois. Before European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. St. Louis was founded on February 14, 1764, by French fur traders Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent, Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, who named it for Louis IX of France. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain. In 1800, it was retroceded to France, which sold it three years later to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase; the city was then the point of embarkation for the Corps of Discovery on the Lewis and Clark Expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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