Rudolf Friml
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Charles Rudolf Friml was a Czech-born composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml mo
Rudolf Friml 1905
Oscar Hammerstein II
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Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and director in musical theater for nearly 40 years. He won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards
Rudolf Friml
…1918–19. Friml wrote his most successful operettas in the 1920s. In 1924, he wrote Rose-Marie. This operetta, on which Friml collaborated with lyricists Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach and co-composer Herbert Stothart, was a hit worldwide, and a few of the songs from it also became hits including "The Mounties" and…
Hammerstein c. 1940
Hammerstein watching an audition at the St. James Theatre on Broadway, 1948
Hammerstein with his first wife, Myra Finn, photographed aboard a ship