From Broadway Musical Success to Film Star
My new theme is "From Broadway Musical Success to
Film Star." I will be writing about three actors and
actresses who had great success in at least one
Broadway musical before moving to a successful film
career. The performers I will be featuring are Julie
Andrews, Liza Minnelli and Kevin Kline.
There are certainly other film actors and actresses
whose successful careers were first launched in
Broadway musicals. I've already written about
Barbra
Streisand,
who had enormous success on Broadway and then went
on to an even more successful film career. Many
popular stars of early movie musicals, such as
Fred Astaire, Danny
Kaye, Gene
Kelly,
and Shirley MacLaine, also began their careers in
Broadway musicals. A more recent star in this
category is Richard Gere, but his early Broadway
musical roots were not seen in movies until 2002
with "Chicago."