Word: cohane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he liked an actress' work he used to say: "She gives me a lump." Being a sentimentalist, he was the natural companion of George M. Cohan. He met Mr. Cohan at a picnic in 1904, and before the day was over made him a producing partner. The partnership lasted 16 years and gave Broadway 50 shows. The first was Little Johnny Jones, and in it George Cohan sang for the first time Give My Regards to Broadway and The Yankee Doodle...
...broke with George Cohan because Sam Harris would not buck the actors' strike in 1919, but both men described the parting as amicable. In the ensuing years Sam had nearly 30 resounding hits including Rain (1922), Icebound (1923), June Moon (1929), Once in a Lifetime (1930), Dinner At Eight (1932), You Can't Take It With You (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939), Lady in the Dark...
...Mary Alice Fletcher, LincolnR. Lee Thomas Bette Woodward, Iowa StateWilliam B. Walker, II Dorothy Warren, BeaverAlexander Williams, Jr. Ann Cross, BuckinghamMASSACHUSETTS HALLDavid Baldwin Edith Surrey, WellesleyGeorge H. Blaxter Lois Ann Degener, RadcliffeWilliam C. Hodges Virginia Veale, Katherine GibbsJulian E. Meyer, Jr. Grace Wilson, St. Margaret'sMATTHEWS HALLSamuel Ansell Barbara Cohan, BeaverThomas Axon Ann Nichols, CambridgeDavid Barnes Joan Smith, Cambridge SchoolDonald Beardsley Connie Clark, WestportLucian R. Blackmer Jane Armistead, ErskineMalcolm Broadrick Jane Mansfield, NewtonGordon M. Browne, Jr. Edith Carlton, RadcliffeForrest Buckingham Ruth Stevens, BelmontGeorge Burditt Lue Lahiff, Western Springs, III.Arthur V. Campbell Dorothy Lewis, New York, N. Y.Hobart A. Capen Mary...
...small part in an amateur theatrical separated the phone clerk from commerce.Told he ought to be on Broadway, he proved it by becoming a chorus boy in George M. Cohan's Little Nellie Kelly in 1922. He changed his name to Oakie* and tacked on the Jack because it seemed to fit. A meeting with Director Wesley Ruggles in 1927 led straight to his first picture, Finders Keepers...
...Washington, D.C. he saw his life story done in a professionally paced musicomedy, Cook Book, by The Harlequins of Washington's Catholic University. Last year Catholic University's drama department got the smart notion of biographing eminent Catholic show businessmen in musical shows, began with George M. Cohan on hand to salute his imitator...