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THE BIOGRAPH GIRL
Book by Warner Brown
Lyrics by Warner Brown and David Heneker
Music by David Heneker
Phoenix Theatre, London 19 November 1980 (57 perfs
A new British musical saluting Hollywood's glorious era of silent pictures.
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Parading the movies' earliest heroes, heroines and clowns, it takes a refreshing look at the birth of the "flickers" and that memorable age of stardust and stars, of tinsel glamour and scandals, of sky-rocketing salaries and tremendous vitality.
It is a nostalgic reminiscence of the silent movies seen through the eyes of four famous figures: Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish, both of them great silent film stars; David Wark Griffith, the most famous of all the American silent directors and Adolph Zukor, one of the studio bosses who laid the foundations of the movie industry we know today.
Story
Act I opens in New York City in 1912.
We are in a nickelodeon watching a one-reel movie made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. A