• Thumbnail for Alfred Drake
    Alfred Drake (October 7, 1914[citation needed] – July 25, 1992) was an American actor and singer. Born as Alfred Capurro in New York City, the son of parents...
    10 KB (910 words) - 15:25, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tom Drake
    Tom Drake (born Alfred Sinclair Alderdice; August 5, 1918 – August 11, 1982) was an American actor. Drake made films starting in 1940 and continuing until...
    12 KB (1,153 words) - 03:07, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harry Stockwell
    Stockwell was also a noted Broadway performer. In 1943, he succeeded Alfred Drake as Curly, the lead role in Broadway's Oklahoma!  He remained in the role...
    5 KB (305 words) - 06:37, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alfred George Drake
    Alfred George Drake VC (10 December 1893 – 23 November 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for...
    4 KB (408 words) - 07:07, 1 July 2024
  • Bill, who runs afoul of some gangsters. The original production starred Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk and Harold Lang. Kiss Me, Kate was Porter's...
    39 KB (3,170 words) - 17:07, 17 September 2024
  • the poet reflects on the fleetingness of "The Sands of Time". Hajj – Alfred Drake The Wazir of Police – Henry Calvin Lalume – Joan Diener The Caliph –...
    27 KB (3,357 words) - 12:29, 15 June 2024
  • Shrew. It was first sung in the show by Patricia Morison, reprised by Alfred Drake, and further popularized by Patti Page in 1949. The Page recording was...
    10 KB (901 words) - 02:46, 20 August 2024
  • featured in the 1940 Broadway revue Two for the Show, where it was sung by Alfred Drake and Frances Comstock. In Two for the Show, this was a rare serious moment...
    29 KB (2,794 words) - 11:18, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
    Brian d'Arcy James Raul Julia 3 nominations Len Cariou Michael Cerveris Alfred Drake Joel Grey George Hearn Gregory Hines Richard Kiley Nathan Lane Brian...
    80 KB (2,590 words) - 22:48, 14 July 2024
  • Chevalier, its original performer. It opened and closed the 1958 film Gigi. Alfred Drake performed the song in the 1973 Broadway stage production of Gigi, and...
    4 KB (315 words) - 04:27, 6 September 2023
  • Gabrielle Drake (born 30 March 1944) is a British actress. She appeared in the 1970s in television series The Brothers and UFO. In the early 1970s she...
    23 KB (2,462 words) - 10:47, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Patricia Morison
    which ran for only 55 performances. Among the other cast members was Alfred Drake, who, years later, would star opposite Morison in the Broadway hit Kiss...
    22 KB (2,575 words) - 10:03, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barbara Cook
    Vic Morrow) The Yeomen of the Guard (broadcast April 10, 1957) with Alfred Drake Hansel and Gretel (NBC Special, broadcast April 27, 1958) with Red Buttons...
    49 KB (5,379 words) - 23:07, 10 September 2024
  • directed by Rouben Mamoulian, choreographed by Agnes de Mille and starred Alfred Drake (Curly), Joan Roberts (Laurey), Celeste Holm (Ado Annie), Howard da Silva...
    92 KB (9,441 words) - 16:39, 22 August 2024
  • introduced by Alfred Drake and Joan Roberts. The other characters think, correctly, that Laurey (Joan Roberts) and Curly (Alfred Drake) are in love. In...
    5 KB (509 words) - 00:28, 6 September 2024
  • Book by Edward Eager & Alfred Drake; Lyrics by Edward Eager; Music by John Mundy (1950) The Gambler: Eager and Alfred Drake co-authored the English-language...
    18 KB (2,147 words) - 05:49, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rodgers and Hammerstein
    stars were used in the production. Ultimately the original cast included Alfred Drake (Curly), Joan Roberts (Laurey), Celeste Holm (Ado Annie), Howard Da Silva...
    34 KB (3,846 words) - 07:45, 14 September 2024
  • Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra. Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow, Richard Kiley and Henry Calvin from the album Alfred Drake & the Kismet Original Broadway...
    4 KB (383 words) - 12:32, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jan Clayton
    Anniversary Show, which featured all the then-surviving stars (except Alfred Drake) of all the classic Broadway musicals that the team had written (1943–1954)...
    9 KB (989 words) - 00:32, 18 September 2024
  • film version. Less favorably received were Linda Marsh as Ophelia and Alfred Drake as King Claudius, whom Gielgud had considered replacing with respectively...
    9 KB (1,128 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2024
  • and Adam Carroll. The cast featured Mitzi Green, Ray Heatherton, and Alfred Drake, as well as the Nicholas Brothers A studio cast recording starring Gregg...
    17 KB (2,152 words) - 21:51, 15 November 2023
  • were Angela Lansbury and Peter Ustinov, assisted by Jack Benny and with Alfred Drake doing narration. The theme of this year's awards ceremony was to salute...
    11 KB (201 words) - 08:33, 16 May 2024
  • The Liar is a musical comedy in two acts with a book by Alfred Drake and Edward Eager, music by John Mundy and lyrics by Mr. Eager. It was produced on...
    4 KB (446 words) - 22:27, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gigi (musical)
    Gaston, Maria Karnilova as Mamita, Agnes Moorehead as Aunt Alicia, and Alfred Drake as Honoré. Arlene Francis replaced the ailing Moorehead later in the...
    18 KB (1,610 words) - 02:00, 29 July 2024
  • of the Week on May 19, 1963, with Tuesday Weld in the title role and Alfred Drake co starring. It was later adapted into a feature film of the same name...
    4 KB (426 words) - 16:49, 7 September 2024
  • Alexander Drake (disambiguation), multiple people Alfred Drake (1914–1992), American actor Alfred George Drake (1894–1915), British soldier Alicia Drake (born...
    13 KB (1,565 words) - 08:29, 18 May 2024
  • actress (d. 1974) 1914 – Sarah Churchill, English actress (d. 1982) 1914 – Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (d. 1992) 1914 – Herman Keiser, American golfer...
    57 KB (5,573 words) - 17:55, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Naughty Marietta (operetta)
    in the United States on January 15, 1955, starring Patrice Munsel and Alfred Drake. In eighteenth century New Orleans, the townspeople go about their daily...
    15 KB (1,915 words) - 09:01, 11 May 2024
  • the Lyceum Theatre in an English-language adaptation by Alfred Drake and Edward Eager. Drake starred as David Petri with Margaret Draper portraying his...
    2 KB (240 words) - 18:35, 25 March 2024
  • played the King in the movie, but he was booked, as was Noël Coward. Alfred Drake, the original Curly in Oklahoma!, made contractual demands which were...
    118 KB (14,465 words) - 04:05, 11 September 2024