Guy Bolton
British-American dramatist and playwright (1884-1979) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 94
Guy Reginald Bolton was an Anglo-American playwright and writer of musical comedies. Born in England and educated in France and the US, he trained as an architect but turned to writing.
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Arthur Freed Produced Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Judy Garland Guy wrote Till the Clouds Roll By and Girl Crazy
June Allyson Guy wrote Till the Clouds Roll By and Girl Crazy
Elissa Landi Also in The Yellow Ticket and Devil's Lottery
Raul Roulien Also in Delicious and Careless Lady
Mickey Rooney Guy wrote Girl Crazy and Words and Music
Myrna Loy Guy wrote Transatlantic and The Woman in Room 13
Norman Taurog Directed Words and Music (1948)
Charles Walters Directed Easter Parade (1948)
Dick Haymes Guy wrote Girl Crazy and Words and Music
Greta Nissen Guy wrote Ambassador Bill (1931)
Jule Styne Produced Anything Goes (1954)
Irving Bacon Guy wrote Girl Crazy and Words and Music
William K. Howard Directed Transatlantic (1931)
Gilbert Emery Also in The Lady Refuses and The Yellow Ticket
Richard Whorf Directed Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Tim Whelan Directed Aunt Sally (1934)
Edgar Norton Also in The Love Parade and The Lady Refuses
Kenneth MacKenna Directed Careless Lady (1932)
Maude Turner Gordon Guy wrote Sally (1929)
Clinton Sundberg Also in Easter Parade and Words and Music
George Archainbaud Directed The Lady Refuses (1931)
Alexander Kirkland Also in Almost Married and Devil's Lottery
Leland Hayward Produced Anything Goes (1954)
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Bolton, centre, with l to r, Morris Gest, P. G. Wodehouse, Ray Comstock and Jerome Kern, c. 1917
Sheet music from Oh, Boy!, an early hit with Kern and Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse, Bolton's friend and collaborator
Sheet music from Oh, Lady! Lady!! (1918)
Bolton and Wodehouse wrote the book for Cole Porter's Anything Goes.
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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 US, he worked with George and Ira Gershwin, Kalmar and Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II.
