Sweet Little Devil
Shows · Sweet Little Devil
Virginia, a scheming Southern belle, plots to steal her best friend's fiance, a young inventor who has created a new type of airplane fuel. Through a series of romantic manipulations at a resort in the Catskills, Virginia nearly succeeds, but the inventor eventually sees through her wiles and returns to his true love.
- Opened
- 1924
- Performances
- 120
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1924 | Astor Theatre Original. January 21, 1924 · Edgar MacGregor | 120 performances |
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2 passages naming Sweet Little Devil, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
DE SYLVA, who went on to become producer at 20th Century Fox and Paramount, and founder of Capitol Records, wrote songs and scores for: Sinbad (18); La, La Lucille (19); Sally (20); Bombo (21); The Broadway Whirl (21); The French Doll (22); Orange Blossoms (22); Sweet Little Devil (24); Big Boy (25); Captain Jinks (25)… book:the-best-musicals-from-show-boat-to-a-chorus-line-by-arthur-jackson-foreword-by-#p142
DeSylva later revised the lyric again for Sweet Little Devil (1924), but the song was deleted prior to the pre-Broadway tryout. book:the-complete-lyrics-of-ira-gershwin-gershwin-ira-1896-1983#p39
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