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The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)

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Champagne Charlie • When I Take My Morning Promenade • The Honeysuckle and the Bee • The Galloping Major • I Want to Sing in Opera • Two Little Girls in Blue • Charming Weather • Oh! Oh! Antonio • The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo • Let the Rest of the World Go By • The Boy I Love is up in the Gallery • Roses of Picardy • Why am I always a Bridesmaid? • If you Were the Only Girl in the World

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The Gambler’s Game James DarnboroughPinewood MediaISBN: 978- 0997134056Reviewed by Megan Weiss for Reader Views (08/2024)   “The Gambler’s Game: Based on the True Story of the Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” by James Darnborough is a biographical historical fiction novel that takes readers back to the late 19th century.  Featuring both the drama of the Old American West and the opulence…

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Ronald Coleman is no match for Colin Clive’s death glare.

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)

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The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935) Stephen Roberts

July 18th 2021

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Ronald Colman in

“The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo”

(1935)

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Digby Bell: The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo Digby Bell (1849-1917) was a Milwaukee born vocalist, popular in comic opera, musical comedy and vaudeville…

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The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo - Charles Coborn

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Wherein I talk about Richard Boleslawski's Clive of India, Stephen Roberts's The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, Frank Lloyd's If I Were King, and William A. Wellman's The Light That Failed starring Ronald Colman

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As I walk along the Bois de Boulogne

With an independent air

You can hear the girls declare

"He must be a Millionaire."

You can hear them sigh and wish to die,

You can see them wink the other eye

At the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.

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Ronald Colman in The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

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LUCKY STIFF

1988

Lucky Stiff is a musical by Stephen Flaherty with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens based upon the 1983 book The Man Who Broke the Bank in Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth. 

It was the first produced collaboration between Flaherty and Ahrens, who went on to great success with Ragtime (1998), Once on This Island (1990), Seussical (2000) and other hit shows. 

The musical takes place in England, Atlantic City and Monte Carlo. The time is now, or very recently.

Downtrodden English shoe salesman Harry receives the unexpected news that he has inherited a fortune from his late Uncle Anthony, on the condition that he takes Anthony’s dead body on a special trip to Monte Carlo. If Harry fails, the money will go to the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn. However, also hot on the tail of Uncle Anthony’s money is Rita, Anthony’s lover with whom he embezzled $6 million behind her husband’s back. And hot on Rita’s trail is her brother Vinnie, who has been blamed for the crime.

‘LUCKY’ PRODUCTION HISTORY

Lucky Stiff was created and first performed off-Broadway Playwrights Horizons  in April 1988, winning the Richard Rodgers Award. The show starred Stephen Stout, Julie White, Stuart Zagnit and Mary Testa.

The musical was next produced at Maryland’s Olney Theatre in May 1989, starring Evan Pappas, winning the 1990 Helen Hayes Award for Best Musical. 

A 1994 studio cast recording included Pappas, Judy Blazer, Testa, Jason Graae, Debbie Shapiro Gravitte, Paul Kandel and Patrick Quinn.

In 1994, the musical had its British debut in the midlands, and in 1997 it had a West End production starring Frances Ruffelle, Paul Baker, and Tracie Bennett.

In October 2003, it was presented as part of York Theatre's Musicals in Mufti concert series, starring Zagnit, Testa, Malcolm Gets, and Janet Metz.

A feature film version of Lucky Stiff premiered at the 2014 Montreal World Film Festival. It stars Dominic Marsh, Don Amendolia, Nikki M. James, Jason Alexande, Mary Birdsong, and Dennis Farina. 

THE ATLANTIC CITY CONNECTION

In a prologue, the chorus sets the scene in a song titled “Something Funny’s Going On”:

ALL (sung): Something funny’s going on And it isn’t very pretty.  This is how it all began, With the murder of a man.  Bang! RITA shoots HARRY (spoken): Oops! ALL (sung): In Atlantic City, New Jersey.

After opening scenes set in England, the action shifts to Atlantic City, New Jersey, home of Rita LaPorta, whose late husband was manager of an (unnamed) Atlantic City casino. 

SOLICITOR to HARRY: “Due to an unfortunate accident, your Uncle, Mr. Tony Hendon of Atlantic City, New Jersey, has passed on. Apparently, casino managers do quite well in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In US dollars, Mr.  Witherspoon, a currency I find highly distasteful, your Uncle left you...six millions dollars!” 

Rita is presented as the typical New Jersey Italian-American mob wife in the style of Carmella Soprano in “The Sopranos” or Angela DeMarco in Married to the Mob. Rita is extremely nearsighted, but luckily, her brother Vinny Di Ruzzio is an optometrist at Atlantic City Optometry. 

VINNIE to a PATIENT: “Is this your first visit to Atlantic City Optometry, Mr. Loomis?”

A production at University of Southern Oregon included a poster for the business. The poster gives the address as Baltic Avenue in Atlantic City. The real road was immortalized in the game Monopoly! Since it is the cheapest property on the board, we can assume Vinny’s practice is not exactly catering to an upscale cliental. 

Rita barges into her brother’s office brandishing a newspaper. In the film version, the newspaper masthead reads Atlantic City Bugle. This is a fictional newspaper. Atlantic City Press was (and is) the newspaper of record in the shore town. 

Rita enlists her brother’s help in tracking down the heart-shaped box of diamonds she stole.  Off they go to the south of France, leaving Atlantic City behind. The city by the sea is mentioned again during the play’s climactic ending. 

RITA, pointing a gun at ANNABEL: “Where is that heart-shaped box?” ANNABEL: “It’s...it’s in Atlantic City!” 

DEAD UNCLE TONY, confessing: “I knew that bullet that killed Luigi was meant for me. I owed the guy. So I came up with a plan, fast. I planted my own obituary in the Atlantic City papers so people would think I was dead.” 

‘LUCKY’ / AC NJ TRIVIA

Atlantic City was not included in the original book, which is set exclusively in Europe. It was the innovation of Lynn Ahrens to ground the show in the United States before moving the action to the Continent. Las Vegas being further afield, Atlantic City it was!  

Flaherty and Ahrens returned to Atlantic City as a setting in Ragtime. Click here to read about it!  

The film cast includes several prominent actors from New Jersey: Jason Alexander (Livingston) and Nikki James (Summit), as well as Don Amendolia (Woodbury), Mary Birdsong (Long Beach Island), and Wesley Taylor (Elizabeth). Stage performers from New Jersey include Stuart Zagnit (New Brunswick) and Judy Blazer (Dover). 

Although Lucky Stiff has not to date been performed on Broadway, it has had several New Jersey community, college, and high school productions. 

The first time the musical was heard at the Dramatists Guild workshop, the authors were told to start again from scratch. The original piece wasn't funny enough or silly enough. Stephen Flaherty says that there are basically two completely different scores for for the show; before, and after the workshop. Annie Golden played Annabelle in the workshop. 

Ahrens found her copy of Butterworth's novel at sale of old books from the Pierpont Morgan Library. Interestingly, the Morgan Library figures prominently in the climax of Ragtime, another F&A musical. 

The character of Annabelle Glick was originally named Annabelle Smith.  

The song "Times Like This" was written to replace another song called "I Wouldn't Waste My Time" that was deemed too sad. The song "Times Like This" is featured on Christiane Noll's album A Broadway Love Story.

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TOP 5 MOMENTS IN THE ALIEN FRANCHISE

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1. elizabeth shaw's final girl moments from her self-surgery to her crawling back onto vicker's ship with the axe and sickin' her baby on the final engineer to face hug him to death

2. xeno-ripley sinkin' that effortless backwards three pointer and sexually intimidating ron pearlman

3. ♡ ripley and clemens ♡ the android-reveal should have been right after they had sex tbh i think about that ficlet you wrote for me all the time... twue tendew womance

4. everything david has ever done but OBVIOUSLY david/walter kiss. obviously. unmatched. generally ofc all of david's phantom of the opera/man who broke the bank at monte carlo vampyric psycho spookiness from covenant but that's not a moment, so since i'm picking moments: david/walter kiss

5. fifield and milburn's first and final date ♡

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