On Your Toes
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On Your Toes is a musical with a book by Richard Rodgers, George Abbott, and Lorenz Hart, music by Rodgers, and lyrics by Hart. It was adapted into a film in 1939.
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Ray Bolger
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Raymond Wallace Bolger was an American vaudevillian, eccentric dancer, comedian, actor and singer best known for his performance as the Scarecrow in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. H
On Your Toes
…was no chance in our script for him to appear that way." Astaire thought that the ballet background in the plot was too "highbrow" for his audiences. Ray Bolger was given the stage role, which allowed him to rise to stardom. Eddie Albert, not known as a dancer in his career, gave a remarkable performance opposite…
Bolger in 1953
Bolger c. 1928
Members of Gus Edwards' revue, Ritz Carlton Nights, in 1928. Bolger is the tall man in the center rear.
Bolger in the trailer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936)