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Belasco, David
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originally Valasco or Velasco
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pronunciation:
[belaskoh]
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| lived:
| (1853–1931)
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| biography:
| Actor, manager, and playwright, born in San Francisco, California, USA. The son of a Portuguese-Jewish family, he appeared on stage as a child. His earliest successes as a stage manager in the 1880s were with melodramas in both New York and California. He built a reputation for total theatricality, including a highly flamboyant private life. One of his great interests was in extreme realism on stage, and he used the newest technology to this end. Among his successes were The Heart of Maryland (1895), in which Maurice Barrymore performed, The Music Master (1904), starring David Warfield, and The Governor's Lady (1912), which included a careful onstage representation of Child's restaurant. In 1906 he built a new theatre in New York, first called the Stuyvesant, then renamed the Belasco (1910). The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center houses his extensive theatre collection. |
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