The work had its beginning in 1938 with an eight-bar musical strain to which Koehler set the words `` There'll be no more work ; ;

After a fruitless search, Kelly returned to Pittsburgh, to his first position as a choreographer with the Charles Gaynor musical revue Hold Your Hats at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in April, 1938.

In 1938, Warner Bros. put Bogart in a " hillbilly musical " called Swing Your Lady as a wrestling promoter ; he later apparently considered this his worst film performance.

* 1938 – The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as " a degenerated musical system ... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people ", warning that it leads down a " primrose path to hell ".

* Peter Stuyvesant is the major antagonist in the 1938 Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson musical Knickerbocker Holiday, in which he sings the song " September Song ".

Prokofiev and Stravinsky restored their friendship, though Prokofiev did not particularly like Stravinsky's later works ; it has been suggested that his use of text from Stravinsky's A Symphony of Psalms to characterise the invading Teutonic knights in the film score for Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky ( 1938 ) was intended as an attack on Stravinsky's musical idiom.

Although she appeared in nine films in her career, all between 1938 and 1943, she was generally passed over for the filmed version of the musical plays in which she starred.

Simultaneously he studied composition with Andrew Imbrie at the University of California, Berkeley, collaborated with writer Willard Bain ( 1938 – 2000 ) writing musical comedies and was employed at the Macy's department store as an assistant buyer.

* Busker Alley ( Off-Broadway, 2006, one-performance benefit concert ), Sherman Brothers musical based on the 1938 movie St. Martin's Lane, directed by Tony Walton

H. G. Wells wrote enthusiastically about the musical, and Cohan's performance as Roosevelt, in an article " The Fall in America 1937 ", published in Collier's on 28 January 1938 and reprinted in his World Brain ( 1938 ).

Four Daughters is a 1938 musical drama film that tells the story of a happy musical family whose lives and loves are disrupted by the arrival of a cynical young composer who interjects himself into the daughters ' romantic lives.

Together, from 1933 to 1939, they made nine musical films at RKO: Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Roberta ( 1935 ), Top Hat ( 1935 ), Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ), Shall We Dance ( 1937 ), Carefree ( 1938 ), and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle ( 1939 ) ( The Barkleys of Broadway ( 1949 ) was produced later at MGM ).

On September 29, 1938, around sixty of Disney's artists gathered for a two-and-a-half hour piano concert while he provided a running commentary about the new musical feature.

In 1938, composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E. Y. Harburg ( composers of " Over the Rainbow " and many other hits ) wrote the song " God's Country ", for the finale of the MGM musical Babes in Arms, starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.

In 1938, they first received national exposure by performing on the Kate Smith Hour radio show, which led to their appearance in a Broadway musical, The Streets of Paris.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold's 1938 score for The Adventures of Robin Hood, for example, can be heard to attach particular themes and harmonies to individual characters: Robin, Will, Much, and Gisbourne are all accompanied by distinctive musical material.

Little Orphan Annie inspired a radio show in 1930, film adaptations by RKO in 1932 and Paramount in 1938 and a Broadway musical Annie in 1977 ( which itself was released as a film in 1982 ).

* Paddy Moloney ( born 1938 ), founder and leader of the Irish musical group The Chieftains

Her early musical theatre appearances in New York included the Cotton Club Revue of 1938, Sing Out the News and The Priorities of 1942.

Horne already had two low-budget movies to her credit: a 1938 musical feature called The Duke is Tops ( later reissued with Horne's name above the title as The Bronze Venus ); and a 1941 two-reel short subject, Boogie Woogie Dream, featuring pianists Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons.

* Cocoanut Grove, a musical film of 1938

Proby ( born James Marcus Smith, November 6, 1938 ) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor, who has portrayed Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison in musical theater productions as well as recording career in his own right.

Some examples of the screwball comedy are: It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), and more recently What's Up, Doc?

In 1938 Hawks made the screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby for RKO Pictures.

Cotten made his film debut in the Welles-directed short Too Much Johnson, a comedy that was intended to complement an aborted 1938 Mercury stage production of William Gillette's 1890 play.

In March 1938, Sennett was presented with an honorary Academy Award: " for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen, the basic principles of which are as important today as when they were first put into practice, the Academy presents a Special Award to that master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius-Mack Sennett.

( 1972 ), starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O ' Neal, a screwball comedy indebted to Hawks's Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) and His Girl Friday ( 1940 ).

* Spaced Invaders ( 1990 ) – A sci-fi comedy in which dim-witted Martians attempt to invade a small Illinois town during a re-broadcast of Orson Welles's 1938 War of the Worlds.

Other film versions ( which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen ) include: the 1929 The Framing of the Shrew, directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom, and starring Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer ; the 1933 You Made Me Love You, directed by Monty Banks, and starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd ; the 1938 Second Best Bed, directed by Tom Walls, and starring Jane Baxter and Walls himself ; the 1942 Italian adaptation La bisbetica domata, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi ; the 1943 Hungarian adaptation Makacs Kata ( Stubborn Kate ) directed by Emil Martonffy, and starring Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor ; another 1943 Hungarian adaptation, Makrancos hölgy ( Unruly Lady ), directed by Viktor Bánky, and starring Emmi Buttykay and Miklós Hajmássy ; the 1948 Mexican adaptation Cartas marcadas, directed by René Cardona, and starring Marga López and Pedro Infante ; the 1956 Spanish adaptation La fierecilla domada, directed by Antonio Román, and starring Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas ; the 1962 Egyptian adaptation Ah min hawaa, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Rushdy Abaza ; the 1963 western McLintock !, directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; the 1999 teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and starring Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford ( Katherina ) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona ( Petruchio ); the 2003 comedy Deliver Us from Eva, directed by Gary Hardwick, and starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J ; and the 2010 Bollywood film Isi Life Mein, directed by Vidhi Kasliwal, and starring Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar.

Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) is an American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

Bringing Up Baby was the second of four films starring Grant and Hepburn, the others being Sylvia Scarlett ( 1935 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), and The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), the last three of which belong to a sub-genre of screwball comedy called the comedy of remarriage described by the philosopher Stanley Cavell as Hollywood's crowning achievement.

Love Finds Andy Hardy is a 1938 romantic comedy film which tells the story of a teenage boy who becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.

Historical ' firsts ' from this era, the world's earliest television crime drama Telecrime ( 1938 – 39 and 1946 ) or Pinwright's Progress ( 1946 – 47, the world's first regular situation comedy ), only remain visually as a handful of still photographs.

In 1938, Wilder adapted Nestroy's version into an Americanized comedy entitled The Merchant of Yonkers, which attracted the attention of German director Max Reinhardt, who mounted a Broadway production.

At the Embassy Theatre in March 1937 he played Anderson in a mystery play, The Bat, before returning to the Old Vic in April, succeeding Marius Goring as Chorus in Henry V. Other roles that year included Christopher Drew in Daisy Fisher's comedy A Ship Comes Home at the St Martin's Theatre in May and Larry Starr in Philip Leaver's comedy Three Set Out at the Embassy in June, before joining John Gielgud's Company at the Queen's Theatre, September 1937 to April 1938, where he played Bolingbroke in Richard II, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal and Baron Tusenbach in Three Sisters.

Murdoch had his radio break in the BBC comedy programme Band Waggon ( 1938 – 40 ) as part of a double act with Arthur Askey, acquiring the nickname " Stinker " as a result.

Jordan appeared ( as " Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom ") in Warner's Damon Runyon comedy A Slight Case of Murder ( 1938 ), and at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Young Tom Edison ( 1940 ).

Charlton, for example, writing in 1938, argues that " clearly, Shakespeare's first attempt to make romantic comedy had only succeeded so far as it had unexpectedly and inadvertenly made romance comic.

She signed a contract with David O. Selznick and appeared with Janet Gaynor in the comedy The Young in Heart ( 1938 ) before Selznick loaned her to MGM to appear in two films.

* 1938 Волга-Волга / Volga-Volga ( musical comedy )

One of the movies in which he portrayed himself was the Joe E. Brown comedy The Gladiator, a 1938 adaptation of Philip Gordon Wylie's 1930 novel Gladiator.

He wrote two songs for the 1938 comedy film Save a Little Sunshine.

After working as a clerk for Liverpool Corporation, Education Department, he was in a touring concert party and the music halls, but he rose to stardom in 1938 through his role in the first regular radio comedy series, Band Waggon on the BBC.