Big Boy (musical)
Appearance
Big Boy is a 1925 musical written by Harold R. Atteridge, music by James F. Hanley and Joseph Meyer, and lyrics by Buddy DeSylva. The show featured Al Jolson as Gus, a downtrodden African-American stable boy who ends up as a jockey winning the Kentucky Derby.[1] The all but one-man show was turned into a film in 1930.
References
- ^ Thomas S. Hischak What Happened to the Broadway Musical When It Went to Hollywood. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004 0810850184 p.57 "Big Boy (1925) was a loosely structured stage vehicle in which Jolson's Gus was a put-upon Negro stable boy who ends up as a jockey winning the Kentucky Derby. Singing songs such as "Keep Smiling at Trouble" and "It All Depends on You .."