Oliver Morosco was an American theatrical producer, director, writer, film producer, and theater owner.
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13 Facts About Oliver Morosco
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Oliver Morosco was merged with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players-Lasky Corporation in 1916.
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Oliver Morosco was born Oliver Mitchell in Logan, Utah, to John Leslie Mitchell and Esmah Badure Montrose.
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Walter Morosco made an arrangement with Esmah Mitchell to become the foster father of her sons and to give them his name.
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Oliver Morosco was a theatrical impresario as well as an acrobat, and operated Morosco's Grand Opera House, one of San Francisco's leading theaters.
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When Oliver Morosco was a teenager, his foster father took over operation of another San Francisco venue, the Amphitheater, and of The Auditorium at San Jose, California, and made Oliver Morosco the manager of both houses.
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In 1899, Oliver Morosco moved to Los Angeles to begin his independent career as a theatrical impresario.
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Oliver Morosco took over the lease on the troubled Burbank Theatre and soon made it a success with a series of stock companies and shows featuring the popular actors of the day.
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In 1908, Oliver Morosco became the lessee of the new Majestic Theatre on Broadway in Los Angeles, and in 1911 took over the former Los Angeles Theatre on Spring Street which had for several years been the Los Angeles home of the Orpheum Vaudeville Circuit, renaming it the Lyceum Theatre.
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Oliver Morosco entered into a partnership with the Belasco-Meyer interests of San Francisco to take over management of their theaters on the west coast, including the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles, the Burbank's chief rival as a stock house.
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Oliver Morosco contributed lyrics to a Victor Schertzinger song he had added to L Frank Baum and Louis F Gottschalk's musical, The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, which he produced in 1913.
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In 1926 the once successful Oliver Morosco filed for bankruptcy, his fortune lost in part due to a large speculative purchase of land in California where he planned to create a development called "Oliver Morosco Town".
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Oliver Morosco had been married four times and was the father of Walter Morosco the film producer.
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