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Guy Bolton

1884–1979 · British-American dramatist and playwright

Guy Reginald Bolton was an Anglo-American playwright and writer of musical comedies. Born in England and educated in France and the US, he trained as an architect but turned to writing. Bolton preferred working in collaboration with others, principally the English writers P. G. Wodehouse and Fred Thompson, with whom he wrote 21 and 14 shows respectively, and the American playwright George Middleton, with whom he wrote ten shows. Among his other collaborators in Britain were George Grossmith Jr., Ian Hay and Weston and Lee. In the US, he worked with George and Ira Gershwin, Kalmar and Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II.

Guy Bolton, in order

  1. 1923 Adam and Eva: wrote · directed by Robert G. Vignola
  2. 1925 Grounds for Divorce: wrote · directed by Paul Bern
  3. 1927 Tip Toes: wrote · directed by Herbert Wilcox
  4. 1928 The Five O'Clock Girl: wrote · directed by Robert Z. Leonard
  5. 1929 Sally: wrote · directed by John Francis Dillon
  6. 1929 The Love Doctor: wrote · directed by Melville W. Brown
  7. 1929 The Love Parade: wrote · directed by Ernst Lubitsch
  8. 1930 The Cuckoos: wrote · directed by Paul Sloane
  9. 1931 Ambassador Bill: wrote · directed by Sam Taylor
  10. 1931 Transatlantic: wrote · directed by William K. Howard
  11. 1932 Careless Lady: wrote · directed by Kenneth MacKenna
  12. 1932 Devil's Lottery: wrote · directed by Sam Taylor
  13. 1932 The Painted Woman: wrote · directed by John G. Blystone
  14. 1932 The Woman in Room 13: wrote · directed by Henry King
  15. 1933 Pleasure Cruise: wrote · directed by Frank Tuttle
  16. 1934 The Lady Is Willing: wrote · directed by Gilbert Miller
  17. 1934 Waltzes from Vienna: wrote · directed by Alfred Hitchcock · critics 50%, audiences 11% · streaming on Roku Channel, Plex, Fawesome
  18. 1935 Man of the Moment: wrote · directed by Monty Banks
  19. 1935 The Guv'nor: wrote · directed by Milton Rosmer
  20. 1936 This'll Make You Whistle: wrote · directed by Herbert Wilcox
  21. 1943 Girl Crazy: wrote · directed by Busby Berkeley and Norman Taurog
  22. 1946 Till the Clouds Roll By: wrote · directed by Richard Whorf
  23. 1948 Words and Music: wrote · directed by Norman Taurog
  24. 1956 Anastasia: wrote · directed by Anatole Litvak
  25. 1965 When the Boys Meet the Girls: wrote · directed by Alvin Ganzer