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Something Wonderful

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by Todd S. Purdum

Guardsman, The (Molnár)

  Guettel, Adam

  Guthrie, Woody

  Guys and Dolls (film)

  Guys and Dolls (musical)

  Gypsy

  Gypsy Jim

  “Habanera”

  Hagman, Larry

  Hall, Juanita

  Hallelujah, I’m a Bum (film)

  Halliday, Richard

  Hamburger, Philip

  Hamilton (Miranda)

  Hamlet (Shakespeare)

  Hammerstein, Alice (daughter)

  Hammerstein, Allie (mother)

  Hammerstein, Anna “Mousie” (stepmother)

  Hammerstein, Arthur (uncle)

  Hammerstein, Dorothy Blanchard (second wife)

  career of

  Carmen Jones and

  Carousel and

  death of

  Dorothy Rodgers and

  King and I and

  marriage to Oscar

  Oklahoma and

  on “Ol’ Man River”

  Oscar’s illness and death

  on relationship of Oscar and Rodgers

  Rodgers’s fiftieth birthday and

  Sondheim and

  Sound of Music and

  South Pacific and

  Hammerstein, James (son)

  Hammerstein, Myra Finn (first wife)

  Hammerstein, Oscar, I (grandfather)

  Hammerstein, Oscar, II

  affairs and

  Allegro and

  Andrews on

  Annie Get Your Gun produced by

  awards

  Bennett as orchestrator and

  birth of

  business acumen and

  Carmen Jones and

  Carousel and

  Carousel filming and

  childhood and early life in theater and

  children and

  Cinderella and

  collaboration with Harbach

  collaboration with Kern

  collaboration with Rodgers, begun with Oklahoma!

  collaboration with Rodgers, revived after King and I

  collaboration with Romberg

  collaborative skill of, with Rodgers

  death of

  death of father and

  death of Kern and

  death of Lawrence and

  death of mother and

  decides on career in theater

  de Mille and

  depressions and

  Desert Song with Harbach and Romberg and

  divorce from Myra and

  early failures of

  early musical with Rodgers, Up Stage and Down

  “Edelweiss” as last lyric by

  education of

  fame and

  FBI investigation of

  finances and

  first lyrics by, for Furs and Frills

  first musical by, Always You with Stothart

  first play by, The Light

  Flower Drum Song and

  Hamburger on

  Happy Birthday produced by

  Hart and

  health problems and

  hit songs and

  Hollywood and

  homes of

  homes of, Doylestown farm

  homes of, Jamaica

  I Remember Mama produced by

  John Loves Mary produced by

  King and I and

  King and I filming and

  “Last Time I Saw Paris” written with Kern

  Lawrence and

  legacy and influence of

  Logan credit for South Pacific and

  on love and understanding

  lyric style of

  marriage to Dorothy Blanchard

  marriage to Myra Finn

  Me and Juliet and

  meets Rodgers at Columbia Varsity Shows

  memoir begun

  Michener share in South Pacific and

  Mielziner sues

  Music in the Air with Kern and

  music publishing and

  New Moon with Romberg and

  Oklahoma! and

  Oklahoma! filming and

  original books by

  performers and

  personality and appearance of

  Pipe Dream and

  politics and

  Porter on

  producing and

  racial prejudice theme and

  recording contracts and

  Rodgers’s fiftieth birthday party and

  Rodgers’s relationship with

  Rodgers’s star billing over

  Rose-Marie with Harbach and

  Show Boat with Kern and

  Sondheim on

  Sound of Music and

  South Pacific and

  South Pacific filming and

  State Fair film remake and

  Sunny River with Romberg and

  Sunny with Kern and Harbach and

  Sweet Adeline with Kern and

  television and

  television tribute to

  theatrical knowledge of

  Three Sisters with Kern and

  Tickle Me with Harbach and

  Toast of the Town tribute to Rodgers and

  travels to Australia

  travels to England

  travels to Paris

  on urban irony

  Variety ad and

  Very Warm for May with Kern and

  writing methods and routine of

  Hammerstein, Reginald (brother)

  Hammerstein, William (son)

  Hammerstein, Willie (father)

  Hammond, John

  Haney, Carol

  Hanff, Helene

  “Happiest House on the Block, The”

  Happy Birthday (Loos)

  “Happy Talk”

  Happy Time, The

  Harbach, Otto

  Harburg, E. Y.

  Harnick, Sheldon

  Harrington, Donald Szantho

  Harrison, Ray

  Harrison, Rex

  Hart, Dorothy

  Hart, Frieda

  Hart, Lorenz

  alcoholism and

  background and personality of

  collaboration with Rodgers

  Connecticut Yankee and

  death of

  Dorothy Rodgers and

  finances and

  Hammerstein on

  Hollywood and

  homosexuality and

  jazz interpretations of

  Liliom and

  Love Me Tonight and

  lyric style of

  Oklahoma! and

  On Your Toes and

  Pal Joey and

  Rodgers on

  Rodgers’s musical style and

  writing method and

  Hart, Max

  Hart, Moss

  Hart, Theodore Van Wyck

  Haver, June

  Hawkins, William

  Hawks, Nancy

  Hayes, Bill

  Hayes, Helen

  Haymes, Dick

  Hayward, Leland

  Heart of the Matter, The (Greene)

  Hecht, Ben

  Heggen, Thomas

  Heidt, Joe

  Heine, Heinrich

  Helburn, Theresa

  Hellman, Lillian

  “Hello, Young Lovers”

  Hell’s Angels (film)

  Henderson, Amy

  Henderson, Florence

  Hepburn, Audrey

  Hepburn, Katharine

  Herbert, Victor

  “Here in My Arms”

  Herman, William

  Hersey, John

  Heyward, Dorothy

  Heyward, DuBose

  High Noon (film)

  Hiss, Alger

  Hitchcock, Alfred

  Hitler, Adolf

  Holden, Stephen

  Holiday Inn (film)

  Holliday, Judy

  Holloway, Sterling

  Hollywood

  blacklist and

  Hollywood Anti-Nazi League

  Hollywood League for Democra
tic Action

  Holm, Celeste

  Holtzmann, David

  Holtzmann, Fanny

  Home, James

  “Home on the Range”

  “Home Sweet Home”

  Homolka, Oscar

  “Honey Bun”

  Hong, Arabella

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Hornblow, Arthur, Jr.

  Horne, Marilyn

  Horowitz, Mark

  Hoschna, Karl

  Hotel Splendide (Bemelmans)

  Hot Heiress, The (film)

  House of Flowers

  House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

  Houston, Whitney

  “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria”

  Howdy Doody Show

  Hudson, Rock

  Hughes, Elinor

  Hughes, Howard

  Hunter, Jeffrey

  Hwang, David Henry

  Hyman, Harold

  Hytner, Nicholas

  “I Am Going to Like It Here”

  Ibsen, Henrik

  “I Cain’t Say No”

  “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love”

  “I Could Write a Book”

  “I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You”

  I’d Rather Be Right

  “I Enjoy Being a Girl”

  “If I Loved You”

  If I Were King

  “If I Weren’t King”

  “I Have Confidence”

  “I Haven’t Got a Worry in the World”

  Imagem Music Group

  I Married an Angel

  “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair”

  “Impossible”

  Independent Citizens’ Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions

  “Indian Love Call”

  Infants Relief Society

  Inge, William

  “In My Own Little Corner”

  “Intermission Talk”

  I Remember Mama (film)

  I Remember Mama (musical)

  I Remember Mama (Van Druten play)

  Irving, George S.

  “Isn’t It Kinda Fun”

  “Isn’t It Romantic?”

  “It Might As Well Be Spring”

  “It Takes All Kinds”

  “I Whistle a Happy Tune”

  “I Wish I Were in Love Again”

  Jack Paar Show, The

  Jacobs, Lester

  Jacobs, Morris

  Jacobson, Henry

  Jacobson, Henry, Jr.

  Japanese Americans

  Jazz à la Carte

  Jazz Singer, The (film)

  Jennings, Talbot

  Jimmie

  John Loves Mary

  Johnson, Bill

  Johnson, Christine

  Johnson, Van

  Joker Is Wild, The (film)

  Jones, Shirley

  Jumbo

  “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over”

  Kahn, Madeline

  Kapp, Jack

  Kaufman, George S.

  Kaye, Danny

  Kazan, Elia

  Kean, Benjamin

  Kelly, Gene

  Kennedy Center Honors

  Kenney, Ed

  Kenyon & Eckhardt

  Kern, Eva

  Kern, Jerome

  collaboration with Hammerstein

  death of

  Green Grow the Lilacs and

  Hart and

  Rodgers and

  Show Boat and

  Kerr, Deborah

  Kerr, John

  Kerr, Walter

  Kikuchi, Yuriko

  Kiley, Richard

  Kilgallen, Dorothy

  King, Henry

  King and I, The

  Andrews on

  ballet

  cast and creative team

  critics on

  decision to create

  finances and

  Hammerstein writes book and lyrics

  Lawrence and

  Leonowens memoir and

  Logan on

  London production

  opening night

  out-of-town tryouts

  portrayal of Asia and

  revivals

  Rodgers writes music

  success of

  Tony Awards and

  King and I, The (film)

  ballet music and

  critics on

  Kingsberg, Malcolm

  Kirk, Lisa

  Kiss Me, Kate

  Kitchen, Robert

  Knopf, Eddie

  Koch, Ed

  Kollek, Teddy

  Korean War

  Kraft, Hy

  Krasna, Norman

  Kresa, Helmy

  Kroll, Jack

  Ladd, D. M.

  Lady Be Good (film)

  “Lady Is a Tramp, The”

  La La Land (film)

  Lanchester, Elsa

  Landon, Margaret

  Lane, Burton

  Lang, Harold

  Lang, Walter

  Langner, Lawrence

  Lasker, Albert

  Lasso, Orlando di

  “Last Time I Saw Paris, The”

  Laurents, Arthur

  “Laurey Makes Up Her Mind”

  Laurie, Piper

  Lawrence, Gertrude

  Layton, Joe

  Lazar, Irving “Swifty”

  Leachman, Cloris

  Leave It to Jane

  Leave It to Me

  Leaves of Grass (Whitman)

  Leavitt, Phillip

  Lee, Bill

  Lee, C. Y.

  Lee, Gypsy Rose

  Lee, Peggy

  Leff, Lillian

  Lehman, Ernest

  Leigh, Janet

  Lennon, John

  Leonowens, Anna

  Lerner, Alan Jay

  Lester, Edwin

  Leuwerik, Ruth

  Levy, Jacob

  Levy, Newman

  Levy, Rachel

  Lido Lady

  Liebeneiner, Wolfgang

  Life magazine

  Life with Father (Lindsay and Crouse)

  Light, The

  Light in the Piazza, The (musical)

  “Light in the Piazza, The” (Spencer story)

  Li’l Abner (musical)

  Liliom (film)

  Liliom (Molnár). See also Carousel

  Lillie, Beatrice

  Lincoln Center Theater

  Lindsay, Howard

  Lloyd Webber, Andrew

  Loeb, Gerald M.

  Loesser, Frank

  Loewe, Frederick

  Logan, Joshua

  Allegro and

  Annie Get Your Gun and

  King and I and

  Pulitzer and

  South Pacific and

  Logan, Nedda

  Lombard, Carole

  London productions

  “Lonely Goatherd, The”

  Lonely Romeo, A

  “Lonely Room”

  Long, William Ivey

  “Look for the Silver Lining”

  Loos, Anita

  Los Angeles Civic Light Opera

  “Love Look Away”

  “Lovely Night, A”

  Love Me Tonight (film)

  “Lover Come Back to Me”

  Lowell, Robert

  Luke, Key

  Lunt, Alfred

  Lute Song

  Lyon, Ben

  MacArthur, Douglas

  MacDonald, Jeanette

  MacKenna, Kenneth

  MacLaine, Shirley

  MacRae, Gordon

  Madame Butterfly (Puccini)

  Magic of Todd-AO, The (film)

  Magna Theatre Corporation

  Mainstays of Maine (Coffin)

  Main Street to Broadway (film)

  “Make Believe”

  Mama’s Bank Account (Forbes)

  Mamoulian, Rouben

  Mandel, Frank

  “Manhattan”

  “Man I Used to Be, The”

 
Mankiewicz, Herman

  Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

  Mantle, Burns

  “Many a New Day”

  “March of Siamese Children, The”

  Marshall, Armina

  Marshall, George C.

  Marshall, Thurgood

  Martin, Ernest

  Martin, Hugh

  Martin, Mary

  Annie Get Your Gun and

  King and I and

  Oklahoma! and

  Peter Pan and

  Sound of Music and

  South Pacific and

  Tony Award

  Marvin, Lee

  Marx, Groucho

  Marx, Harpo

  Mary Jane McKane

  Mary Poppins (film)

  Masters of Melody (documentary)

  Mayer, Louis B.

  Mayes, Herbert

  McCall’s magazine

  McCarten, John

  McCartney, Paul

  McCormick, Myron

  McCracken, Joan

  McCrary, Tex

  McCullers, Carson

  McDonald, Audra

  McHugh, Jimmy

  McLeod, R. W. Scott

  McWhorter, Thomas

  Me and Juliet

  cast and creative team

  critics on

  failure of

  finances and

  Hammerstein on

  opening night

  written

  Meehan, Thomas

  Meet Me in St. Louis (film)

  Melnick, Daniel

  Melnick, Linda Rodgers. See Rodgers, Linda

  Member of the Wedding (McCullers)

  Meredith, Burgess

  Merman, Ethel

  Merry Widow, The (Lehár)

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

  Metropolitan Opera

  Michener, James A.

  offered share of South Pacific

  Mielziner, Jo

  Miller, Arthur

  Miller, Gilbert

  Miller, Marilyn

  Mineo, Sal

  Minnelli, Liza

  Miranda, Lin-Manuel

  Mister Roberts

  Mitchell, Margaret

  Moen, Peter

  Molnár, Ferenc

  Mongkut, King of Thailand

  Monroe, Marilyn

  “Moon in My Window”

  “Moon of My Delight”

  Mordden, Ethan

  Morehouse, Ward

  Moreno, Rita

  “More Than Just a Friend”

  Morris, William

  Morrow, Doretta

  Mortimer, Lee

  “Mountain Greenery”

  Munson, Ona

  Musical Stages (Rodgers autobiography)

  Music in the Air

  My Fair Lady

  “My Favorite Things”

  My Favorite Things (Brubeck album)

  My Favorite Things (Dorothy Rodgers book)

  “My Funny Valentine”

  “My Heart Belongs to Daddy”

  “My Heart Stood Still”

  “My Time of Day”

  “My Wife”

  Nash, Ogden

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

  National Committee to Win the Peace

  National Negro Congress

  Native Americans

  Nazi Germany

  NBC TV

  Nelson, Gene

  Nelson, Ralph

  New Haven Register

  Newman, Alfred

  Newman, Paul

  New Moon, The

  New Republic

  Newsweek

  New Toys

  New York American

  New York Daily Mirror

  New York Daily News

  New Yorker

  New York Evening World

  New York Herald Tribune

 

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