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Over a period of four decades William Auerbach-Levy (1889-1964) created 15 caricatures celebrating ten Sam Levene original Broadway starring performances including: Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls (1950), five caricatures; Patsy in Three Men on a Horse (1935), Officer Finkelstein in Margin for Error (1939), Pvt. Dino Collucci in A Sound of ...
Sam Levene was the actor who originated "craps-shooter extraordinaire" Nathan Detroit in the seminal American musical "Guys and Dolls" on the Great White Way in the original 1950 production.
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Original 1950 Broadway leads Sam Levene and Vivian Blaine were brought over to repeat their roles in the 1953 London production (the first of many West End i...
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In 1965 Vivian Blaine and Sam Levene reprised their original Broadway roles as Miss Adelaide and Nathan Detroit in a 15th anniversary revival of Guys and Dolls at the Mineola Theatre, Mineola, New York and Paramus Playhouse, New Jersey.
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Following a career that spanned well over 50 years, he was posthumously inducted into both the Theatre Hall of Fame (1984), and the Grammy Hall of Fame (1998), the latter for the original Broadway cast recording of Guys and Dolls.
Nov 25, 2000 · Cy Feuer and his partners had wanted an old Yiddish theater vaudevillian named Sam Levene for the role. He'd played Runyonesque characters before with the requisite New York rasp, swagger and...
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Feb 11, 2009 · The four leads in Guys and Dolls—Sarah, Sky, Nathan and Adelaide—are now considered iconic musical roles, but only one of the original stars, Sam Levene, had ever appeared on Broadway. One...
