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    The Belle of Broadway is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Harry O. Hoyt and...
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  • series. American actress Susan Egan originated the role of Belle in the Broadway musical adaptation of the film, for which she was nominated for a Tony...
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  • and the Beast premiered on Broadway on April 18, 1994, starring Susan Egan and Terrence Mann as the eponymous Belle and Beast, respectively. The musical...
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    as Patti LaBelle, is an American R&B singer and actress. She has been referred to as the "Godmother of Soul". She began her career in the early 1960s...
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    Anneliese van der Pol (category Orange County School of the Arts alumni)
    extensive theater career, most notably appearing as Belle in the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast. Van der Pol was born in Naaldwijk, South Holland...
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    Susan Egan (category Orange County School of the Arts alumni)
    her work on the Broadway stage. She is best known for originating the role of Belle in the Broadway musical adaptation of Beauty and the Beast (1994)...
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  • Megan McGinnis (category Internet Broadway Database person ID same as Wikidata)
    Off-Broadway production of Daddy Long Legs. She played Belle in Beauty and the Beast McGinnis made her Broadway debut in The Diary of Anne Frank as Margot...
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  • (for "Belle" and "Be Our Guest") and Best Sound. In April 1994, Beauty and the Beast became Disney's first animated film to be adapted into a Broadway musical...
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    Paige O'Hara (category American people of British descent)
    a Broadway actress in 1975 when she portrayed Della in The Gift of the Magi. In 1991, she made her motion picture debut in Disney's Beauty and the Beast...
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  • followed the template set by the Broadway production. However, the creative team made further revisions, notably removing a character, Belle, who had...
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  • speaking and singing voices. At the time, Egan was starring on Broadway as Belle in the stage adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, a role she originated,...
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    cisgender for the Broadway version. In October 2020, it was announced that Cipriano would start opposite Belle Shouse and Stephen Moyer in the supernatural...
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    Columbia in The Belle of Broadway and Chadwick in The Ladybird. During this time, she was suggested as a replacement for difficult Greta Garbo in the MGM feature...
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    Phoebe Belle Cates Kline (born July 16, 1963) is an American former actress, who appeared in films such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Gremlins...
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  • Selena Tan (category National University of Singapore alumni)
    (2012) Crazy Christmas® (2012) The Hossan Leong Show 2012 - Flying Solo (2012) Crazy Christmas® Ting Tong Belles! (2013) Broadway Beng®! Benging you back to...
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  • The following is a list of feature films produced and distributed by the American studio Columbia Pictures from 1922, the year the company produced its...
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  • Belle Epoque (also referenced in some sources as La Belle Epoque) was the name of a female vocal trio, based in Paris, France. The group first rose to...
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    and the Beast, and she was nominated for a Dora Award for her performance. Butler eventually transferred to Broadway as Belle, and, after playing the role...
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  • Richard White, "Belle" is a mid-tempo classical music-inspired song that borrows elements from Broadway and musical theatre. It was the first song Ashman...
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  • "Lulu Belle". The A to Z of American Theater:Modernism. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6884-7. League, The Broadway. "Lulu BelleBroadway Play – Original...
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    Debbie Gibson (category The Apprentice contestants)
    theatre credits; she was among the many actresses who took the starring role of Belle in the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast. She replaced Kerry...
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  • Patti Murin (category Internet Broadway Database person ID same as Wikidata)
    Theatre Company. She next played Belle in a national tour of Beauty and the Beast (2006) Murin made her Broadway debut in the musical Xanadu in 2007–2008 as...
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    Belle Isle Park, known simply as Belle Isle (/bɛlˈaɪəl/), is a 982-acre (1.534 sq mi; 397 ha) island park in Detroit, Michigan, developed in the late 19th...
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    remake of the film. Belle was also added to Disney Consumer Products' Disney Princess franchise, while Gaston, the Wolves, and Forte is part of the Disney...
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    "Fox7Austin - Music In The Morning - The Belle Sounds - July 10, 2018". "CBS - Music Monday - The Belle Sounds". "Broadway World - July 13, 2018 - Like A Villain...
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  • Irene Mecchi (category University of California, Berkeley alumni)
    from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved August 30, 2019 – via YouTube. "The Belles of Broadway: A Continued conversation with Irene Mecchi (The Lion...
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    Susan Egan (Belle in Broadway's Beauty and the Beast and voice of Megara in Disney's Hercules) Stephanie J. Block (Elphaba in Broadway's Wicked) Eden...
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  • Little Me (musical) (category Broadway musicals)
    Carolyn Leigh. The original 1962 Broadway production featured Sid Caesar in multiple roles with multiple stage accents, playing all of the heroine's husbands...
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  • The Belle Stars were an all female British pop/rock band. Formed in 1980, they are best known for their 1983 hit single "Sign of the Times" as well as...
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  • and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas and Belle's Magical World. Based on the hero of the French fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, the Beast...
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