What patron of The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America starred in Oliver!
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The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America and the Theatre and Film Guild of Great Britain and America is a registered theatre charity and non-profit making theatre organisation based in London. The Guild's patrons include Brian Croucher, Anita Dobson, Fenella Fielding, Sheila Ferguson, Jessica Martin, Lorraine Chase, Gillian Gregory, Mark Lester, Jessie Wallace, Barbara Windsor and Shani Wallis.
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Shani Wallis Shani Wallis (born 16 April 1933) is an English-born American actress and singer of theatre, television and film, in both her native United Kingdom and in the United States. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the West End, and for the role of Nancy in the 1968 Oscar-winning film musical "Oliver!".
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Oscar Hammerstein II Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II ( ; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Many of his songs are standard repertoire for vocalist's and jazz musicians. He co-wrote 850 songs. Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music. Hammerstein collaborated with numerous composers, such as Jerome Kern, with whom he wrote "Show Boat", Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml, Richard A. Whiting and Sigmund Romberg; but he is best known for his collaborations with Richard Rodgers, as the duo Rodgers and Hammerstein which include "Oklahoma!", "Carousel", "South Pacific", "The King and I", and "The Sound of Music".
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Gery Scott Gery Scott (5 October 1923 – 14 December 2005) was a jazz and cabaret entertainer and teacher, whose performing career spanned 26 countries and over 60 years. She was noted for her powerful stage persona and engaging delivery, with material ranging from the songbooks of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Lorenz Hart, Cy Coleman and all the "standards" as well as Noël Coward and some pop material. Whilst she was well known to British audiences during the later part of the Second World War, she achieved most of her fame outside the UK.
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Emma Waller Emma Waller (1815 – February 28, 1899) was an English actress who achieved fame in America.
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Henry Stephenson Henry Stephenson (16 April 1871 – 24 April 1956) was a British stage and film actor. He portrayed friendly and wise gentlemen in many films of the 1930s and 1940s. Among his roles were Sir Joseph Banks in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935) and Mr. Brownlow in "Oliver Twist" (1948).
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Joel Grey Joel Grey (born Joel David Katz; April 11, 1932) is an American actor, singer, dancer, and photographer. He is best known for portraying the Master of Ceremonies in both the stage and film versions of the Kander & Ebb musical "Cabaret". He has won an Academy Award, Tony Award, and Golden Globe Award.
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Frederick Lloyd Frederick Lloyd (15 January 1880 – 24 November 1949) was a British film actor. His most notable appearances include Doctor Watson in the 1932 film "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and Mr. Grimwig in David Lean's 1948 literature adaption "Oliver Twist" .
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Neville Marriner Sir Neville Marriner, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (15 April 1924 – 2 October 2016) was an English violinist who became "one of the world's greatest conductors". He founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and his partnership with them is the most recorded of any orchestra and conductor.
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Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr. (March 21, 1867 – July 22, 1932), popularly known as Flo Ziegfeld, was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the "Ziegfeld Follies" (1907–1931), inspired by the "Folies Bergère" of Paris. He also produced the musical "Show Boat". He was known as the "glorifier of the American girl". Ziegfeld is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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Kay Cavendish Kathleen Dorothy Cavendish Murray, who was billed as Kay Cavendish, was a classically trained pianist and popular entertainer.
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Oliver! (soundtrack) Oliver! is the soundtrack to the 1968 British musical drama film "Oliver!". The soundtrack won an Oscar for score of a musical picture-original or adaption at the 41st Academy Awards in 1969. The "Oliver!" soundtrack reached number 4 in the UK Albums Chart and spent 99 weeks on the chart.
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Hamilton Clarke James Hamilton Siree Clarke (25 January 1840 – 9 July 1912), better known as Hamilton Clarke, was an English conductor, composer and organist. Although Clarke was a prolific composer, he is best remembered as an associate of Arthur Sullivan, for whom he arranged music and compiled overtures for some of the Savoy Operas, including Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado".
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Daisy Dormer Daisy Dormer (16 January 1883 – 13 September 1947) was an English music hall singer.
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Gary Oliver (actor) Gary Oliver is an English actor known for his roles in "New Tricks" and "Atlantis".
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Oliver Hardy Oliver Norvell "Babe" Hardy (born Norvell Hardy; January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted 25 years, from 1927-1951. He appeared with his comedy partner Stan Laurel in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles. He was credited with his first film, "Outwitting Dad", in 1914. In some of his early works, he was billed as "Babe Hardy", using his nickname.
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Mabel Mercer Mabel Mercer (3 February 1900 – 20 April 1984) was an English-born cabaret singer who performed in the United States, Britain, and Europe with the greats in jazz and cabaret.
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Lionel Newman Lionel Newman (January 4, 1916 – February 3, 1989) was an American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of composers Randy Newman, David Newman, Thomas Newman, Maria Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman.
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Henry Irving Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), born John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility (supervision of sets, lighting, direction, casting, as well as playing the leading roles) for season after season at the Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre. In 1895 he became the first actor to be awarded a knighthood, indicating full acceptance into the higher circles of British society.
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Frances Ellen Work Frances Ellen Work (October 27, 1857 – January 26, 1947) was an American heiress and socialite. She was a great-grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales, and her great-great-grandchildren include the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry, and the American actor Oliver Platt.
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Richard Haydn George Richard Haydn (10 March 1905 – 25 April 1985), known as Richard Haydn, and born as George Richard Haydon, was an English comic actor in radio, films and television. Some of his better known performances include "Ball of Fire" (1941) as Professor Oddley, "No Time for Love" (1943) as Roger, "And Then There Were None" (1945) as Thomas Rogers, "The Emperor Waltz" (1948), "Alice in Wonderland" (1951) as the Caterpillar, as Baron Popoff in "The Merry Widow" (1952), as William Brown in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962), and "The Sound of Music" (1965) as Max Detweiler.
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John Lithgow John Arthur Lithgow ( ; born October 19 , 1945) is an American actor, musician, singer, comedian, voice actor, and author. He has received two Tony Awards, six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, an American Comedy Award, four Drama Desk Awards and has also been nominated for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards. Lithgow has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.