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William Gaxton

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William Gaxton (née Arturo Antonio Gaxiola, December 2, 1893 – February 2, 1963) was a star of vaudeville, film, and theatre. [1]

38 relations: A Connecticut Yankee (musical), Anything Goes, Arthur Treacher, Best Foot Forward (film), Broadway theatre, CBS, Cole Porter, Diamond Horseshoe, Ethel Merman, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Guy Lombardo, Hollywood Pinafore, Howard McGillin, IMDb, Jones Beach Theater, Leave It to Me!, Leo Carrillo, Louisiana Purchase (musical), Manhattan, Music Box Revue, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Of Thee I Sing, Paradise Island (musical), Rodgers and Hart, San Francisco, The Heat's On, The Lambs, The New York Times, The White Horse Inn, Their Big Moment, Thou Swell, Vaudeville, Victor Moore, You Do Something to Me, You'd Be So Easy to Love, 1926 in film, 1963 in film, 50 Million Frenchmen (film).

A Connecticut Yankee (musical)

A Connecticut Yankee is a musical based on the novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by American writer Mark Twain.

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Anything Goes

Anything Goes is a 1934 musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.

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Arthur Treacher

Arthur Veary Treacher (23 July 1894 – 14 December 1975) was an English film and stage actor active from the 1920s to the 1960s, and known for playing English stereotypes, especially butler and manservant roles, such as the P.G. Wodehouse valet character Jeeves (Thank You, Jeeves,1936) and the kind butler Andrews opposite Shirley Temple in Heidi (1937).

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Best Foot Forward (film)

Best Foot Forward is a 1943 American musical film adapted from the 1941 Broadway musical comedy of the same title.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter.

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Diamond Horseshoe

Diamond Horseshoe (also billed as Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe) is a 1945 Technicolor musical film starring Betty Grable and Dick Haymes, directed by George Seaton, and released by 20th Century Fox.

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Ethel Merman

Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer.

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Fifty Million Frenchmen

Fifty Million Frenchmen is a musical comedy with a book by Herbert Fields and music and lyrics by Cole Porter.

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Guy Lombardo

Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo (June 19, 1902 – November 5, 1977) was a Canadian-American bandleader and violinist of Italian descent.

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Hollywood Pinafore

Hollywood Pinafore, or The Lad Who Loved a Salary is a musical comedy in two acts by George S. Kaufman, with music by Arthur Sullivan, based on Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.

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Howard McGillin

Howard McGillin (born November 5, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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Jones Beach Theater

Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater (originally Jones Beach Marine Theater or commonly Jones Beach Theater) is an outdoor amphitheatre at Jones Beach State Park in Wantagh, New York.

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Leave It to Me!

Leave It to Me! is a 1938 musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.

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Leo Carrillo

Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo (August 6, 1880 – September 10, 1961), was an American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist.

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Louisiana Purchase (musical)

Louisiana Purchase is a musical with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and book by Morrie Ryskind based on a story by B. G. DeSylva.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Music Box Revue

Music Box Revue was a musical theatre revue staged by Hassard Short with music by Irving Berlin.

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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, is located in Manhattan, New York City, at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side, between the Metropolitan Opera House and the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

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Of Thee I Sing

Of Thee I Sing is a musical with a score by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind.

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Paradise Island (musical)

The Legend of Paradise Island is a Hawaiian Musical Fantasy in two acts, with book, music, and lyrics by Carmen Lombardo and John Jacob Loeb.

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Rodgers and Hart

Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895–1943).

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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The Heat's On

The Heat's On (1943) is a musical movie starring Mae West, William Gaxton, and Victor Moore, and released by Columbia Pictures.

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The Lambs

The Lambs, Inc. (aka The Lambs Club) is a social club in New York City for actors, songwriters, and others involved in the theatre.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The White Horse Inn

White Horse Inn (or The White Horse Inn), (German title: Im weißen Rößl), is an operetta or musical comedy by Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz in collaboration with a number of other composers and writers, set in the picturesque Salzkammergut region of Upper Austria.

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Their Big Moment

Their Big Moment is a 1934 American mystery film directed by James Cruze, from a screenplay by Arthur Caesar and Marion Dix.

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Thou Swell

"Thou Swell" is a show tune, a popular song and a jazz standard written in 1927.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.

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Victor Moore

Victor Frederick Moore (February 24, 1876 – July 23, 1962) was an American actor of stage and screen, as well as a comedian, writer, and director, most significantly a major Broadway star from the late 1920s through the 1930s.

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You Do Something to Me

"You Do Something to Me" is a song written by Cole Porter.

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You'd Be So Easy to Love

"(You'd Be So) Easy to Love" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for William Gaxton to sing in the 1934 Broadway show Anything Goes.

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1926 in film

The following is an overview of 1926 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1963 in film

The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic Cleopatra, Alfred Hitchcock's horror ''The Birds'', and two films with all-star casts, How the West Was Won and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

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50 Million Frenchmen (film)

Fifty Million Frenchmen is a 1931 American pre-Code musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaxton

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