Earl Carroll(1893-1948)

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Writer
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Producer, director, composer, songwriter and composer; Earl Carroll was part Billy Rose, a little Busby Berkeley and part Mike Todd. He was a staff writer for a New York publishing company between 1912 and 1917, then served in the US Army Air Force during World War I. He produced and directed the Broadway musicals "Earl Carroll Vanities" (11 editions), "Earl Carroll Sketch Book" (two editions), "Murder at the Vanities" (for which he was co-librettist), and the infamous $350,000 flop, "Fioretta" (for which he was the librettist). He built two Earl Carroll Theatres in New York, in 1923 and 1931, and also the lavish Earl Carroll Restaurant in Hollywood in 1939. He produced films, and wrote he Broadway stage scores for "So Long, Letty", "Canary Cottage", "The Love Mill" (also librettist), and "Earl Carroll Vanities" in 1923 and 1924. He was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914, and composed the popular songs "Isle d'Amour", "So Long, Letty", "One Look at You", "Dreams of Long Ago", "Give Me All of You", "While We Dance", "Just The Way You Are", "I Never Knew" and "Dreaming".

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Murder at the Vanities

6.5

Writer

1934

12.10

Writer

1919

A Night at Earl Carroll's

6.0

Producer

1940

Love Is News

6.9

Producer

1937

Credits

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Producer

A Night at Earl Carroll's
6.0
- producer
- 1940
Love Is News
6.9
- associate producer
- 1937
Stowaway
7.1
- associate producer
- 1936
Reunion
4.8
- associate producer (uncredited)
- 1936

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Personal details

Born
- September 16, 1893
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died
- June 17, 1948
- Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA(airplane crash)
Spouse
- Marcelle HontabatAugust 25, 1915 - November 18, 1936 (her death)
Other works
Stage: Wrote additional lyrics (earliest Broadway credit) for "Over the River" on Broadway. Musical extravaganza. Music / Lyrics by John Golden. Book by George V. Hobart and Henry A. Du Souchet (based on his play). Musical Direction by C. DeWitt Coolman. Additional music by Elsie Janis, Edward J. Griffin, Charles Grant, William H. Penn, Jean Schwartz, Egbert Van Alstyne, Charles Eggett and Henry B. Murtagh. Additional lyrics by Elsie Janis, Edward J. Griffin, Henry B. Murtagh, Edward Clark, Harry Williams and William Jerome. Directed by R.H. Burnside. Globe Theatre: 8 Jan 1912-20 Apr 1912 (120 performances). Cast: David Andrada, Anna Bacherer, Fanny Bacherer, Lawrence Beck, Leila Benton, Claire Bertrand, Neil Bertrand, Rosa Burklein, Emma Collier, Lester Crawford, Katherine Daly, Madeline d'Harville, Edna Dodsworth, Clementine Dundas, Bessie Fennell, Gretchen Fink, Eddie Foy (as "Madison Parke"), Betty Fuchs, Harry Hermsen, Freda Hirsch, Vonnie Hoyt, Edna Hunter, Leavitt James, Charles L. Kelley, Maude Lambert, Dorothy Langdon, Las Sevillanitas, Mazie Leroy, Frances Leslie, Lillian Lorraine, Mildred Manning, Selma Mantell, The Marvelous Millers, Monsieur Maurice, Billy Methven, Grace Methven, Jeannetta Methven, Marie Neckar, Frank M. Rainger, Estelle Richmond, Josie Sadler, Osborne Searle, William Sellery, Bessie Skeer, Joseph C. Smith, Marguerite St. Clair, Melville Stewart, Anna Stone, Dai Turgeon, Frank Wunderlee. Produced by Charles B. Dillingham and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr..
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Died in the company of actress Beryl Wallace on United Airlines Flight 624, a DC-6 [NC37506] named the "Mainliner Utah," a coast-to-coast flight to New York City that originated in San Diego, California with stops in Los Angeles and Chicago with 39 passengers and 4 crew. Equipped with 4-Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engines, the aircraft had a recent history of engine fires. Although this particular plane had received special modifications mandated by the FAA, the repair itself had problems with CO2 fumes leaking into the pilot's cabin. In the final hours of the 12-hour flight just past Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania, the radio operator made a frantic call about the plane making an emergency decent. Witnesses reported sighting smoke pouring from one of its left engines with the landing gear still retracted. It clipped a power transformer and clipped a high tension wire, turning the plane into a fireball. It disintegrated on impact at 12:41 PM EST on June 17, 1948 [crash site: 5 km ENE of Mount Carmel, PA]. Strangely, in the months preceding his death, Carroll modified his will in the event that he and his "beloved friend" Wallace died simultaneously. One provision stipulated that they be buried together (their simple single gravestone only indicates their names and the year of their death).