Bert Kalmar - Work For Broadway

Work For Broadway

Note: All works are musicals unless otherwise noted.

  • Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 (1920) - revue - featured co-songwriter for "I'm a Vamp from East Broadway"
  • Helen of Troy, New York (1923) - co-composer and co-lyricist with Harry Ruby
  • Ziegfeld Follies of 1923 (1923) - revue - featured lyricist for "Society Bud"
  • No Other Girl (1924) - co-composer and co-lyricist with Harry Ruby
  • Holka Polka (1925) - book-editor
  • The Ramblers (1926) - co-composer, co-lyricist, and co-bookwriter with Harry Ruby
  • Lucky (1927) - co-writer with Otto Harbach, Harry Ruby and Jerome Kern
  • The Five O'Clock Girl (1927) - lyricist (music by Harry Ruby)
    • Revived in 1981
  • She's My Baby (1928) - co-bookwriter with Harry Ruby
  • Top Speed (1929) - co-writer and co-producer with Harry Ruby and Guy Bolton
  • High Kickers (1941) - co-composer, co-lyricist with Harry Ruby and co-bookwriter with Ruby and George Jessel
  • The Corn is Green (1943) - actor in the role of "Will Hughes"

Posthumously:

  • Fosse (1999) - revue - featured lyricist for "Who's Sorry Now?"

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