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Guy Bolton

Writer, Additional Credits
Born November 23, 1884Died September 5, 1979 (94 years)
Guy Reginald Bolton 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.

Known For

  • Hijack
  • Angel
  • Anastasia
  • The Love Parade
  • Girl Crazy
  • Easter Parade
  • Week-End at the Waldorf
  • Till the Clouds Roll By
  • Strauss' Great Waltz
  • Ziegfeld Follies
  • The Murder Man
  • Sally
  • The Dark Angel
  • Words and Music
  • Rosalie
  • Delicious
  • Anything Goes
  • Anything Goes
  • Rio Rita
  • The Lady Refuses
  • When the Boys Meet the Girls

Filmography

2023
Hijack (TV Series)
1948
1945
1934
1934
The Lady Is Willing · as Screenplay
1934
1933
Along Came Sally · as Screenplay
1933
1932
1932
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm · as Contributing Writer
1932
Careless Lady · as Screenplay
1931
Ambassador Bill · as Screenplay
1931
1931
Transatlantic · as Screenplay
1930
1929
1928
1923
Adam and Eva · as Novel

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