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Posted by:	showtunetrivia 01:24 pm EDT 05/04/15
In reply to:	re: Opera singers on Broadway ... - AlanScott 01:05 pm EDT 05/04/15

Nanette Guilford, nicknamed the Baby Star of the Met because she was their youngest singer when she signed at age 18 in the early twenties, tried Broadway in summer 1934 in an operetta called CAVIAR. Her close friend, Larry Hart, tried to help the piece by secretly rehearsing the cast behind the director's back. It ran a couple of weeks and Hart told Guilford, "Baby, even you couldn't make this turkey fly." Laura, who has spent way too much time in 1934

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