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Fifty Million Frenchmen was the first of seven Porter musicals to have the book written or co-written by Herbert Fields.
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The same thing happened to Fifty Million Frenchmen ( 1931 ) and Manhattan Parade ( 1932 ) both of which had been filmed entirely in Technicolor.
Warner Bros. released a large number of color films from 1929 to 1931, including The Show of Shows ( 1929 ), Sally ( 1929 ), Bright Lights ( 1930 ), Golden Dawn ( 1930 ), Hold Everything ( 1930 ), Song of the Flame ( 1930 ), Song of the West ( 1930 ), The Life of the Party ( 1930 ), Sweet Kitty Bellairs ( 1930 ), Under A Texas Moon ( 1930 ), Bride of the Regiment ( 1930 ), Viennese Nights ( 1931 ), Woman Hungry ( 1931 ), Kiss Me Again ( 1931 ), Fifty Million Frenchmen ( 1931 ), and Manhattan Parade ( 1932 ).
In the spring of 1991 she participated in a concert staging of Cole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen at New York City's French
* Fifty Million Frenchmen Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on November 27 and ran for 254 performances
Mole and his band supported her on her 1927 Okeh recordings of " After You've Gone ", " Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong ", " I Ain't Got Nobody ", and " One Sweet Letter From You ".
Fifty Million Frenchmen is a musical comedy with a book by Herbert Fields and music and lyrics by Cole Porter.
The title is a reference to the hit 1927 song " Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong " by Willie Raskin, Billy Rose, and Fred Fisher, which compared free attitudes in 1920s Paris with censorship and prohibition in the United States.
Fifty Million Frenchmen premiered on Broadway at the Lyric Theatre on November 27, 1929 and closed on July 5, 1930 after 254 performances.
Fifty Million Frenchmen, directed by Lloyd Bacon and filmed entirely in Technicolor, was released in 1931 by Warner Bros.
Warner, after purchasing a string of music publishers, was even able to establish a music subsidiary-Warner Bros. Music-and buy out additional radio companies, foreign sound patents, and a lithograph company as well ; he even was able to produce a Broadway musical Fifty Million Frenchmen.
The next year he published Double Wonderful, a Western, before returning to the Burly character for How I Conquered Your Planet in 2006, The Exploding Detective in 2007, Dead Men Scare Me Stupid in 2008, Earth vs. Everybody in 2009, The Last Detective Alive in 2010, The Fifty Foot Detective in 2011, and The Million Dollar Policeman in 2012.
Orphans halts the machines that are about to destroy the garden by holding up his glass amulet (" Fifty Million Years Ago ").
It is notable in that it was the first number in Porter's first fully integrated-book musical Fifty Million Frenchmen ( 1929 ).
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Fifty years ago the general raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen was an example of this movement.
" Fifty stadia 6 mi from the coast was a mountain that was low on all sides ... broke it off all round about ... the central island itself was five stades in diameter 0. 92 km ; 0. 57 mi.
In 1659, he sent parliament his most politically radical pamphlet, Fifty nine Particulars laid down for the Regulating things, but the year was so chaotic that it never considered them ; the document was not reprinted until the 21st century.
) Another popular feature of his shows was the annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners ' favourite records of the year.
Fifty years before Christopher Columbus, Chinese navigator Zheng He traveled the world at the head of what was for the time a huge armada.
Fifty years before the events of Myth: The Fallen Lords, the capital of the Cath Bruig Empire, Muirthemne, was sacked and destroyed by Balor and his lieutenants, now collectively known as the Fallen Lords.
This was published in 1887 in a series Hints to Audubon Workers: Fifty Birds and How to Know Them in Grinnell's Audubon Magazine.
Fifty authors and artists contributed to the book, which was fronted by Cecil Beaton's portrait of the Queen and was sold in aid of the Red Cross.
In tribute to the influence of the song and the movie that launched its popularity, the March 29, 2005 50th anniversary of the opening of Blackboard Jungle was marked by several large celebrations in the United States organized by promoter Martin Lewis under the blanket title " Rock Is Fifty ".
Although Wren was appointed to the Fifty New Churches Commission in 1711, he was left only with nominal charge of a board of works when the surveyorship started in 1715.
According to John Algeo in Fifty Years among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms 1941-1991, the first recorded usage of " Terror bombing " in a United States publication was in a Reader's Digest article dated June 1941, a finding confirmed by the Oxford English Dictionary.
Fifty years of subsidies had made the owners of arable land millionaires through mechanised cultivation and, with a crisis of over-production ; the European Community was rewarding them for growing no crops on part of their land.
It was designed by the architect Thomas Archer, who was a pupil of Sir Christopher Wren, as part of the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches with the intention of instilling pride in Britain, and encouraging people to stay in London rather than emigrate to the New World.
In 1985, Marston was posthumously named as one of the honorees by DC Comics in the company's 50th anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great.
The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy by E. L. James was first published in ebook in 2011 and subsequently went on to become a bestseller.
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