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Guy Reginald Bolton (23 November 1884 – 4 September 1979) was an Anglo-American playwright and writer of musical comedies. Born in England and educated in France and the US, he trained as an architect but turned to writing. Bolton preferred working in collaboration with others, principally the English writers P. G. Wodehouse and Fred Thompson, with whom he wrote 21 and 14 shows respectively, and the American playwright George Middleton, with whom he wrote ten shows. Among his other collaborators in Britain were George Grossmith Jr., Ian Hay and Weston and Lee. In the US, he worked with George and Ira Gershwin, Kalmar and Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Bolton is best known for his early work on the Princess Theatre musicals during the First World War with Wodehouse and the composer Jerome Kern. These shows moved the American musical away from the traditions of European operetta to small scale, intimate productions with what the Oxford Encyclopedia of Popular Music calls "smart and witty integrated books and lyrics, considered to be a watershed in the evolution of the American musical." Among his 50 plays and musicals, most of which were considered "frothy confections", additional hits included Primrose (1924), the Gershwins' Lady, Be Good (1925) and especially Cole Porter's Anything Goes (1934).
Bolton also wrote stage adaptations of novels by Henry James and Somerset Maugham, and wrote three novels on his own and a fourth in collaboration with Bernard Newman. He worked on screenplays for such films as Ambassador Bill (1931) and Easter Parade (1948), and published four novels, Flowers for the Living (with Bernard Newman, 1958), The Olympians (1961), The Enchantress (1964) and Gracious Living (1966). With Wodehouse, he wrote a joint memoir of their Broadway years, entitled Bring on the Girls! (1953).
Filmography
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Movies 63
Writer 61
Anything Goes (2021)
Crazy For You (1999)
When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965)
Nicht zuhören, meine Damen! (1962)
Adorable Julia (1962)
Bezaubernde Julia (1960)
Anastasia (1956)
Anything Goes (1956)
Nicht zuhören, meine Damen! (1954)
Anything Goes (1954)
Anastasia (1953)
Words and Music (1948)
Easter Parade (1948)
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
Girl Crazy (1943)
Rosalie (1937)
Angel (1937)
This'll Make You Whistle (1936)
Anything Goes (1936)
The Guv'nor (1935)
The Dark Angel (1935)
Man of the Moment (1935)
The Murder Man (1935)
The Morals of Marcus (1935)
The Camels Are Coming (1934)
The Lady Is Willing (1934)
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
Aunt Sally (1934)
Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
No dejes la puerta abierta (1933)
My Lips Betray (1933)
Pleasure Cruise (1933)
The Painted Woman (1932)
Almost Married (1932)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932)
The Woman in Room 13 (1932)
Careless Lady (1932)
Devil's Lottery (1932)
Girl Crazy (1932)
Delicious (1931)
Ambassador Bill (1931)
The Yellow Ticket (1931)
Transatlantic (1931)
The Lady Refuses (1931)
Top Speed (1930)
The Cuckoos (1930)
The Love Parade (1930)
Sally (1930)
Rio Rita (1929)
The Love Doctor (1929)
Oh Kay! (1928)
Lady Be Good (1928)
Tiptoes (1927)
The Dark Angel (1925)
Grounds for Divorce (1925)
Sally (1925)
Secrets of the Night (1924)
Adam and Eva (1923)
The Cave Girl (1921)
Polly with a Past (1920)
Oh, Lady, Lady (1920)
Oh Boy! (1919)
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GenderMale
Birthday1884-11-23
Deathday1979-09-05 (94 years old)
Birth PlaceHertfordshire, United Kingdom
ChildrenMarguerite Bolton
FatherReginald Pelham Bolton
SiblingsIvy May Bolton
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America
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