Shows · Banjo Eyes · Hollywood Theatre, 1941
Banjo Eyes, 1941
Of the productions that opened in the 1940s, this had the 194th longest run.
Who was in it72 named
Ray Arnett
E J Blunkall
Betty Boyce
Norma Brown
Jimmy Corke
Kay Coulter
Ronnie Cunningham
Sally de Marco
Tony de Marco
Doris Dowling
Carle Eberle
Clark Eggleston
Carle Erbele
John Ervin
James Farrell
Florence Foster
Chick Gagnon
Gloria Gilbert
Grace Gilren
Anne Graham
Arthur Grahl
Linda Griffeth
Miriam Gwinn
Doug Hawkins
Mitzi Haynes
Peggy Ann Holmes
Virginia Howe
Helene Hudson
Dick Irving
Adele Jergens
Ray Johnson
Doris Kent
George Lovesee
Lynn Royce and Vanya
Lynn Malone
Rayford Malone
Joseph Malvin
Remi Martell
Ray Mayer
Morton Mayo
John Mccord
Jack Nagle
Leona Olsen
June Reynolds
George Richmond
Tina Rigat
Richard Rober
Sherry Shadburne
Phil Shafer
Bill Skipper
Puddy Smith
Jacqueline Susann
Shirl Thomas
Marie Vanneman
Mimi Walthers
Ray Weamer
Evelyn Weiss
Audrey Westphal
Tommy Wonder
Margie Young
Leon Alton
Harry Boersma
Clarence Jaeger
Creative team
- Director
- Hassard Short
- Choreographer
- Charles Walters
Around this production
Banjo Eyes is a musical based on the play Three Men on a Horse by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott. It has a book by Joseph Quinlan and Izzy Ellinson, music by Vernon Duke, and lyrics by John La Touche and Harold Adamson. Produced by Albert Lewis and staged by Hassard Short, the Broadway production opened on December 25, 1941, at the Hollywood Theatre, where it ran for 126 performances. The cast included Eddie Cantor, Lionel Stander, William Johnson, and, in a small role, future novelist Jacqueline Susann (Valley of the Dolls). Although Cantor was known as "Banjo Eyes," the title referred not to his character but to a talking race horse, played in costume by the vaudeville team of Morton an…
His last Broadway performance was in Vernon Duke and John Latouche’s Banjo Eyes in 1941. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 333
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