Stephen Longstreet

Stephen Longstreet
STEPHEN LONGSTREET was an artist, screenwriter and author of more than 100 works of fiction and non-fiction. An artist by training, Longstreet started writing during the Great Depression in order to make a living, creating radio scripts, film reviews and detective novels. During the 1940s, under contract at Warner Bros., Longstreet penned The Jolson Story and Stallion Road. His novel The Sisters Liked Them Handsome served as the basis for the Broadway musical High Button Shoes. A number of Longstreet’s works deal with the emergence of jazz music, and Longstreet’s depictions of jazz-age figures such as Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the world.
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High Button Shoes
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, ComedyHigh Button Shoes
Jule Styne , Sammy Cahn , Stephen Longstreet
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 2w, 5m plus ensemble
A rollicking homage to the silent-movie era, High Button Shoes unravels the comic entanglements of two con artists and an upstanding family in Atlantic City in 1913.
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High Button Shoes
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, ComedyHigh Button Shoes
Jule Styne , Sammy Cahn , Stephen Longstreet
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 2w, 5m plus ensemble
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