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Vivienne Segal
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Vivienne Sonia Segal (April 19, 1897 - December 29, 1992) was an American actress and singer. Segal was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died in Beverly Hills, California.
Segal is best remembered for creating the role of Vera Simpson in Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s Pal Joey and introducing the song "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered". Pal Joey opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre December 25, 1940, with a cast that included Vivienne Segal and Gene Kelly. [1]
Since the 1940 production went unrecorded, a studio cast was assembled in 1950 to record the musical. In addition to Segal, the group also featured Harold Lang, Barbara Ashley, Beverly Fite, Kenneth Remo and Jo Hurt. In 2003, this recording was reissued by Columbia Masterworks in a release featuring such Rodgers and Hart tunes as “I Could Write a Book,” “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” “Zip” and “Take Him,” as well as two bonus tracks: Lang singing “I Could Write a Book” (from the CBS TV show Shower of Stars) and Segal (interviewed by Mike Wallace on the CBS radio show Stage Struck) recalled Hart’s promise to write her a show and then sings “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.”
Segal was also a performer on the CBS radio program Accordiana in 1934.
On her passing in 1992, Vivienne Segal was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
- 1915 The Blue Paradise
- 1917 My Lady's Glove
- 1918 Oh, Lady! Lady!
- 1919 The Little Whopper
- 1922 The Yankee Princess
- 1923 Adrienne
- 1924 Ziegfeld Follies
- 1925 Florida Girl
- 1926 Castles in the Air
- 1926 The Desert Song
- 1928 The Three Musketeers
- 1938 I Married an Angel
- 1940 Pal Joey
- 1943 A Connecticut Yankee Broadway revival
- 1947 Music in My Heart
- 1950 Great to Be Alive
- 1952 Pal Joey Broadway revival
- 1930 Song of the West
- 1930 Bride of the Regiment
- 1930 Golden Dawn
- 1930 Viennese Nights
- 1934 The Cat and the Fiddle
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