I Married an Angel

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

I Married an Angel (1938), a musical comedy by Richard Rodgers (book, music), Lorenz Hart (book, lyrics). [Shubert Theatre, 338 perf.] Willie Palaffi ( Dennis King), a banker and ladies' man, breaks off his engagement to Anna ( Audrey Christie) and swears he will marry only an angel. When a real angel ( Vera Zorina) promptly flies into his life, he marries her. But her angelic honesty causes no end of problems for him until his sister, Countess Palaffi ( Vivienne Segal), teaches the angel the ways of a cynical world. The Countess also bribes cab drivers to delay Willie's creditors until a way is found to save her brother's bank. Notable songs: I Married an Angel; Spring Is Here; At the Roxy Music Hall; A Twinkle in Your Eye. Basing it on a Hungarian play, Rodgers and Hart had originally worked on it with Moss Hart as a musical film. The film was scrapped, so the work was rewritten for the stage. In the Journal‐American, John Anderson characterized the Dwight Deere Wiman production as “a winged wonder‐work from the musical heavens of Rodgers and Hart.”

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