Carte. In 1885, Edwardes became a manager at the Gaiety Theatre with John Hollingshead, who soon retired. For the next three decades, Edwardes ruled a theatrical...
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Edwardian musical comedy (section George Edwardes)
culture of the day. The father of the Edwardian musical was George "The Guv'nor" Edwardes. He took over London's Gaiety Theatre in the 1880s and, at first...
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Gaiety Theatre, London (section Edwardes years)
Jack Sheppard (1885–86), produced together with his successor, George Edwardes. Edwardes's first show, Dorothy, became a long-running hit. In the 1880s...
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Early in the new century, he had a string of successes in musicals for Edwardes, including The Toreador (1901), The School Girl (1903), The Orchid (1903)...
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Daly's Theatre (section The Edwardes years)
returned, and for the next twenty years Daly's Theatre was run by Edwardes. Edwardes, nicknamed "the Guv'nor", ran Daly's in a lavish manner. He employed...
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baronets and a Member of Parliament George Edwardes (1855–1915), English theatre manager Herbert Benjamin Edwardes (1819–1868), English administrator,...
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Theatre in London, starring Gertie Millar as Kitty Kent, produced by George Edwardes and directed by Edward Royce, and at the Knickerbocker Theatre on Broadway...
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professional wrestler Desire (1920 film), a British film directed by George Edwardes-Hall Desire (1921 film), a German film directed by F.W. Murnau Desire...
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Nobody's Child is a 1919 British silent film directed by George Edwardes Hall from his own play The Whirlpool. The film was made by British and Colonial...
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arrives in London. The film was inspired by the memory of George Edwardes. Richard Greene as George Howard Ann Todd as Katharine Davis Peter Graves as Henry...
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