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GUY BOLTON

  (1884 - 1979)
Nationality:    British
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Guy Reginald Bolton (23 November 1884 - 4 September 1979) was a British-American playwright and writer of musical comedies. Born in England and educated in France and the U.S., he trained as an architect but turned to writing. Bolton preferred working in collaboration with others, principally the English writers P. G. Wodehouse and Fred Thompson, with whom he wrote 21 and 14 shows respectively, and the American playwright George Middleton, with whom he wrote ten shows. Among his other collaborators in Britain were George Grossmith Jr., Ian Hay and Weston and Lee. In the U.S., he worked with George and Ira Gershwin, Kalmar and Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II. Bolton is best known for his early work on the Princess Theatre musicals during the First World War with Wodehouse and the composer Jerome Kern. These shows moved the American musical away from the traditions of European operetta to small scale, intimate productions with what the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Popular Music calls, "smart and witty integrated books and lyrics, considered to be a watershed in the evolution of the American musical." Among his 50 plays and musicals, most of which were considered "frothy confections", additional hits included Primrose(1924), the Gershwins' Lady, Be Good (1925), and especially Cole Porter's Anything Goes (1935). Bolton also wrote stage adaptations of novels by Henry James and Somerset Maugham, and wrote three novels on his own and a fourth in collaboration with Bernard Newman. He worked on screenplays for such films as Ambassador Bill (1931) and Easter Parade (1948), and published four novels, Flowers for the Living (with Bernard Newman, 1958), The Olympians (1961), The Enchantress (1964), and Gracious Living (1966). With Wodehouse, he wrote a joint memoir of their Broadway years, entitled Bring on the Girls! (1953). - Wiki

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        90 In the Shade         Adam And Eva         Anastasia         Ankles Aweigh         Anya         Anything Goes         Cave Girl, The         Chicken Feed         Child Of Fortune         Children         Come On, Jeeves         Countess Maritza         Crazy For You         Daffy Dill         Ever Yours         Fallen Idol, The         Five Million, The         Five O'Clock Girl, The         Follow the Girls         Girl Behind the Gun, The         Girl Crazy         Give Me A Ring         Grounds For Divorce         Have A Heart         Hit-the-Trail-Holiday         Hold On To Your Hats         Hotel Mouse, The         Jackpot         Kissing Time         Lady, Be Good         Larger Than Life         Leave It To Jane         Light Of the World, The         Miss 1917         Miss Springtime         Music At Midnight         Nightcap, The         Nobody Home         Nobody's Business         Oh Kay         Oh! Lady! Lady!         Oh, Boy         Oh, My Dear!         Polly Preferred         Polly With A Past         Primrose         Rainbow Square         Ramblers, The         Rio Rita         Riviera Girl, The         Rosalie         Rose Of China, The         Rule Of Three         Sally         Simple Simon         Sitting Pretty         Song Of Sixpence, A         Tangerine         Tip-Toes         Very Good Eddie         Wild Rose