New Faces
A front row seat for the FIRST musical revue in CinemaScope with STEREOPHONIC SOUND.
- Comedy
- Music
Overview
New Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then made into a motion picture in 1954. It helped jump start the careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Carol Lawrence, performer/writer Mel Brooks (as Melvin Brooks), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick. The film was basically a reproduction of the stage revue with a thin plot added. The plot involved a producer and performer (Ronny Graham) in financial trouble and is trying to stave off an angry creditor long enough to open his show. A wealthy Texan offers to help out, on the condition that his daughter be in the show.
Keywords
- based on play or musical
- musical revue
- musical theatre
- broadway theatre
- theater performance
- skits
- musical theater
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 19, 1954
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Cast
- Eartha Kitt,Ronny Graham,Robert Clary,Alice Ghostley,June Carroll,Virginia Wilson,Paul Lynde,Bill Mullikin,Rosemary O'Reilly,Allen Conroyand 11 more
- Director
- John Beal,Harry Horner
- Writer
- Luther Davis,Ronny Graham,Paul Lynde,Mel Brooks,John P. Cleveland,June Carroll,Tony Springer,André Hornez,Peter De Vries,Michael Brown,Francis Lemarque,Sheldon Harnick,Joan Javits
- Producer
- Edward L. Alperson,Berman Swarttz
- Cinematography
- Lucien Ballard
- Music
- Raoul Kraushaar
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0044963