1. John Lionel Golden was an American actor, songwriter, author, and theatrical producer.
25 Facts About John Golden
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John L Golden was born in New York City on June 27,1874.
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John Golden grew up in Wauseon, Ohio and returned to New York when he was fourteen.
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John Golden joined a chemical manufacturing firm, where he worked for thirteen years.
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John Golden composed the music for Miss Prinnt, a musical farce in which his friend Marie Dressler starred, that opened in late 1900 in New York City.
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John Golden wrote the music and lyrics for Florenz Ziegfeld's Over the River.
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John Golden wrote the lyrics for four of these shows in a row.
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John Golden staged Guy Bolton's Chicken Feed at the Little Theatre in 1923, playing to good audiences.
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John Golden produced Phoebe and Henry Ephron's Three's a Family in 1943 at the Longacre Theatre, the last play staged there until 1953.
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In 1932 John Golden co-produced the film version of Those We Love, starring Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna and Lilyan Tashman.
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The first John Golden Theater was designed by Harrison G Wiseman and opened at 202 W 58th Street, Manhattan, on November 1,1926.
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When Golden lost the 54th Street theater he leased the Royale Theater at 242 W 45th Street and renamed it the Golden Theater.
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In 1937 Golden bought the Masque Theatre, which had been designed in 1927 by Herbert J Krapp for Irwin Chanin and his brother Henry I Chanin.
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John Golden renamed it the John Golden Theatre, the third theater in New York named after him.
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John Golden was a founder of the Stage Door Canteen and the Stage Relief Fund.
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John Golden was a charter member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the first treasurer of this organization and director from 1914 to 1915.
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John Golden was one of the first board members of the City Center of Music and Drama.
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In 1919 John Golden arranged a meeting with fellow producers Fred Zimmerman, Archibald Selwyn, Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.
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John Golden wanted to set up a forum so the producers could share ideas, and wanted to stop the rival organizations from poaching each other's stars.
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John Golden found himself called a traitor or enemy by actor friends such as Ralph Morgan and DeWolf Hopper.
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John Golden was among the managers at the meeting in the St Regis Hotel in which the strike was ended.
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John Golden was "Shepherd" of the Lambs, a social club for workers in the theatrical professions, from 1942 to 1944.
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John Golden was the author of the United Nations All Faith Prayer For Peace.
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John Golden died at home of a heart attack on June 17,1955.
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The John Golden award provides grants to students at the Hunter College Master of Arts in Theatre in New York.