• Lew Leslie (born Lewis Lessinsky; April 15, 1888 – March 10, 1963) was a Jewish American writer and producer of Broadway shows. Leslie got his start in...
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  • having been terminated, Grade formed a partnership with his brother Leslie (Lew and Leslie Grade Ltd., or the Grade Organisation). That year, the brothers...
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    Man" all sung by Hall. Blackbirds of 1928 was the idea of impresario Lew Leslie, who planned to build the show around Florence Mills in New York City...
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    October 24, 1927.[citation needed] In 1928, white producer and director Lew Leslie staged the first of a popular series of Blackbirds revues, featuring such...
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    Village - 26 Orangeburg Road Veterans Memorial Park Zita Johann, actress. Lew Leslie, Broadway writer and producer. George Worth, born Gyorgy Woittitz (1915–2006)...
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  • Leslie (disambiguation), several people Jordan Leslie (born 1991), American football player Lawrie Leslie (1935–2019), Scottish footballer Lew Leslie...
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    Adelaide Hall at Les Ambassadeurs Club in New York in January 1928 in Lew Leslie's Blackbird Revue, which opened on Broadway later that year as the highly...
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  • Grade Organisation (also known as Lew and Leslie Grade Ltd) with his elder brother, the impresario and producer Lew Grade (1906–98). During the 1940s...
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  • sold the rights to the song. It was introduced in the Broadway musical Lew Leslie's International Revue starring Harry Richman and Gertrude Lawrence. Ted...
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    credited Shuffle Along with launching her career. After Shuffle Along, Lew Leslie, a white promoter, hired Mills and Thompson to appear nightly at the Plantation...
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