George White's Scandals

For other uses, see George White's Scandals (disambiguation).

Tom Patricola and Ann Pennington dance "The Black Bottom" for George White

George White's Scandals were a long-running string of Broadway revues produced by George White that ran from 1919–1939, modeled after the Ziegfeld Follies.[1] The "Scandals" launched the careers of many entertainers, including W. C. Fields, the Three Stooges, Ray Bolger, Helen Morgan, Ethel Merman, Ann Miller, Eleanor Powell, Bert Lahr and Rudy Vallée.[1] Louise Brooks, Dolores Costello, Barbara Pepper, and Alice Faye got their show business start as lavishly (or scantily) dressed chorus girls strutting to the "Scandal Walk". The Black Bottom, danced by Ziegfeld Follies star Ann Pennington and Tom Patricola, touched off a national dance craze.[2]

Several dozen of George Gershwin's songs first appeared in the 1920–24 editions of Scandals, mostly with lyricists Arthur Jackson for the first two years and Buddy De Sylva and E. Ray Goetz thereafter. Two of these songs became standards: "Stairway to Paradise" (1922, lyrics by De Sylva and Ira Gershwin under his early pseudonym, "Arthur Francis") and "Somebody Loves Me" (1924, lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and De Sylva). George Gershwin and De Sylva's twenty-minute opera Blue Monday was first performed in the 1922 edition but dropped after opening night.[3]

George White's Scandals is also the name of several movies set within the Scandals, all of which focus primarily on the show's acts, with a thin backstage plot stringing them all together. The best known of these was 1934's George White's Scandals, with music and additional dialogue by Jack Yellen,[4] which marked the film debut of Alice Faye.[5] Flapper-era cartoonist and designer Russell Patterson worked on Broadway in various capacities; for George White's Scandals of 1936, he served as scenic designer.[6] George White's Scandals of 1920 was featured in a film-length episode in the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920 is the 8th episode in the second season.

George White

Main article: George White (producer)

White was an American theatrical producer and director who also was an actor, choreographer, composer, dancer, dramatist, lyricist and screenwriter, as well as a Broadway theater-owner. Appearing in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1915, he popularized the Turkey Trot dance.[7]

The Scandals casts

Christine Welford appeared in the 1919, 1920 and 1921 editions.
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Peggy Dolan appeared in the 1919, 1920, 1922 and 1924 editions.

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1920

1921

1922

1923

1924

1925

1926

1928

1929

1931

1932 (Music Hall Varieties)

1934 (film)

1935 (film)

1936

1939

Source: IBDb

See also

References

  1. ^ a b MUZE. "Broadway The American Musical". PBS. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
  2. ^ "Tom Patricola". Sonny Watson's Street Swing. StreetSwing.com. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  3. ^ Howard Pollack (2006). George Gershwin: His Life and Work. University of California Press. p. 248–249, 259, 268–269, 285 and 316–317.
  4. ^ "George White's Scandals". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on November 6, 2020. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
  5. ^ Arnold, Jeremy. "George White's Scandals 1945". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved January 19, 2016.[dead link]
  6. ^ "George White's Scandals". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on November 6, 2020. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
  7. ^ "George White", PBS, accessed October 7, 2015
  8. ^ a b c Christine Welford at IBDB
  9. ^ Li, Leslie. Just Us Girls, Four Seasons Press (2015), p. 1067, Kindle
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