Which cast member of the musical film, "Top Banana", played a comedy writer on "The Dick Van Dyke Show"?
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Top Banana (film) Top Banana is a 1954 musical film based on the musical of the same name, starring Phil Silvers, and featuring Rose Marie, Judy Lynn, Jack Albertson and Joey Faye, all of whom reprised their roles from the Broadway production of the musical.
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Rose Marie Rose Marie Mazetta (born August 15, 1923), known professionally as Rose Marie, is an American actress. As a child performer she had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie. A veteran of vaudeville and one of its last surviving stars, her career includes film, radio, records, theater, night clubs and television. Her most famous role was television comedy writer Sally Rogers on the CBS situation comedy "The Dick Van Dyke Show". She later portrayed Myrna Gibbons on "The Doris Day Show" and was also a frequent panelist on the game show "Hollywood Squares". She was the first major star to be known simply by her first names and is the subject of a documentary film "Wait for Your Laugh" (2017) which features interviews from numerous co-stars, including Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke, Peter Marshall and Tim Conway.
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John Kaye (screenwriter) John Kaye (born August 31, 1941) is an American screenwriter, novelist and playwright. His feature credits as a screenwriter include "American Hot Wax", "Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins" and "Where the Buffalo Roam". He also directed the feature film "Forever Lulu", starring Melanie Griffith and Patrick Swayze. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Kaye was producer and writer of The Lohman and Barkley Show, a late-nite live, 90 minute, satirical show that ran for a year on KNBC, the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles in 1971. A precursor to Saturday Night Live, Kaye gave Barry Levinson, Craig T. Nelson, John Amos, and McLean Stevenson their first jobs in the entertainment business. In 2012, " The Los Angeles Review of Books" began publishing his memoirs.
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Dick Dodd Joseph Richard "Dick" Dodd, Jr. (October 27, 1945 – November 29, 2013) was an American actor and musician who was a cast member of "The Mickey Mouse Club" starting in its first season, and later a member of several musical groups including The Standells. He was the lead singer on that band's 1966 "Billboard" hit, "Dirty Water", which includes the refrain "...Boston, you're my home".
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Randy Van Horne Randy Van Horne (February 10, 1924 – September 26, 2007) was an American singer and musician. Van Horne's musical group, the Randy Van Horne Singers, performed the theme songs for many classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons including "The Flintstones", "Top Cat", "The Jetsons", and "The Huckleberry Hound Show".
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On Broadway (song) "On Broadway" is a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil in collaboration with the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
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Showtune (musical) Showtune is a musical revue celebrating the words and music of Broadway composer and lyricist Jerry Herman. Its title was inspired by Herman's autobiography of the same name. The revue's original title was "Tune the Grand Up". After its 1985 San Francisco premiere and several regional productions through the 1990s, the piece played in the West End in 1998 under the title "The Best of Times", and Off-Broadway in 2003, titled "Showtune".
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Call Me Madam Call Me Madam is a musical based on a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.
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Very Warm for May Very Warm for May is a musical composed by Jerome Kern, with a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II. It was the team's final score for Broadway, following their hits "Show Boat", "Sweet Adeline", and "Music in the Air". It marked a return to Broadway for Kern, who had spent several years in Hollywood writing music for movies, including "Swing Time" for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
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I'm the Greatest Star "I'm the Greatest Star" is a popular song from the 1964 musical "Funny Girl", written by Bob Merrill and Jule Styne, and originally performed by Barbra Streisand in the role of Fanny Brice, first in the Broadway cast, then again in the 1968 film adaptation.
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Don Stitt Don Stitt (born January 25, 1956) is an American actor and playwright who has been featured in four Broadway musicals, appeared 20 times on the "Late Show with David Letterman", and starred in countless commercials.
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Top Speed (film) Top Speed is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical comedy film released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers. It was based on a 1929 stage musical of the same name by Harry Ruby, Guy Bolton and Bert Kalmar. The film stars Joe E. Brown, Bernice Claire, Jack Whiting, Laura Lee, and Frank McHugh.
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Never Gonna Dance Never Gonna Dance is a Broadway musical featuring the music of Jerome Kern. The musical was based on the 1936 Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film "Swing Time". Lyricists include Oscar Hammerstein, Ira Gershwin, P. G. Wodehouse, Bernard Dougall, Johnny Mercer, Jimmy McHugh, Otto Harbach, and Dorothy Fields.
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Vanities, A New Musical Vanities, A New Musical is a musical with music and lyrics by David Kirshenbaum and a book by Jack Heifner, based on the book and 1976 play of the same name. The musical premiered Off-Broadway in 2009, after an engagement at the Pasadena Playhouse, California in 2008. A revised version was then staged in the West End in 2016.
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High Society (musical) High Society is a musical comedy with a book by Arthur Kopit and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Some updated or new lyrics were provided by Susan Birkenhead. The musical is based on Philip Barry's 1939 stage comedy, "The Philadelphia Story" and the subsequent 1956 musical film adaptation, "High Society", which features Porter's songs. The musical includes most of the music featured in the movie, along with several songs selected from other Porter musicals. It premiered on Broadway in 1998 and has since been revived. Another musical adaptation of the story had opened in London in 1987 with a different book by Richard Eyre.
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Karin Lewicki Karin Lewicki is an internationally noted American writer. She started in television as Winnie Holzman's assistant on "Once and Again", and has a screenplay on the The Black List, "Haley Means Unplugged".
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Will B. Johnstone Will B. Johnstone (1883–1944) was an American writer, cartoonist, and lyricist. His writing credits include the Marx Brothers's Broadway revue "I'll Say She Is" and, with S.J. Perelman, their first two Hollywood films, "Monkey Business" and "Horse Feathers". He also wrote several popular songs, including a version of "How Dry I Am."
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Andy Houts Andrew Laurence "Andy" Houts (June 23, 1965 – February 26, 1997) was an American actor. Houts began his career at Klasky-Csupo, working on "The Simpsons", "Rugrats" (where he wrote two episodes), "Duckman" and "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters" in numerous capacities (most commonly as a production coordinator and an actor). He also wrote one episode of "Rocko's Modern Life", and appeared on "The Drew Carey Show" and "Ellen" in small roles. Houts died in 1997 of a brain tumor before the new season of "Rugrats" began. The episode "" is dedicated to his memory. He was a gifted comic.
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Irvin C. Miller Irvin Colloden Miller (February 19, 1884 – February 27, 1975) was an African-American actor, playwright and vaudeville show writer and producer. He was responsible for successful theater shows including "Broadway Rastus" (1921), "Liza" (1922), "Dinah" (1923), which introduced the wildly popular black bottom dance, and "Desires of 1927" starring Adelaide Hall. For thirty years he directed the popular review, "Brown Skin Models", influenced by the "Ziegfeld Follies" but exclusively using black performers. "In the 1920s and 1930s, he was arguably the most well-established and successful producer of black musical comedy."
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Lynn Ahrens Lynn Ahrens (born October 1, 1948) is an American writer and lyricist for the musical theatre, television and film. She has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty for many years. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for the Broadway musical "Ragtime". Together with Flaherty, they have written many musicals, including "Lucky Stiff", "Once on This Island", "My Favorite Year", "Ragtime", "Seussical", "A Man of No Importance", "Dessa Rose", "The Glorious Ones", and most recently seen on Broadway, "Rocky the Musical".
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The Garrick Gaieties Garrick Gaieties is a revue with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, the first successful musical by this songwriting team.
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The Harvey Korman Show The Harvey Korman Show is an American sitcom starring Harvey Korman, Christine Lahti, Barry Van Dyke and Milton Selzer that aired for five episodes on ABC from January 31 to August 3, 1978.