Constellation Similarity Assertions

Lee Lawrence was born July 25 1923, in Atlanta, GA. Her father was a traveling salesman and moved the family often. She grew up in Los Angeles, Nashville, Louisville, New Haven, Buffalo, and Cleveland. At the age of seven, she was already in “show business.” Inspired by the circus and the remnants of vaudeville at the Hippodrome Theatre, she began producing “two penny” musical extravaganzas for neighbors’ children and their parents.

At the age of twenty, she became technical consultant to the great stage designer Norman Bell Geddes on the biggest show to be produced during the war, Billy Rose’s “Seven Lively Arts.” Rose asked Lee to supervise the reconstruction and restoration of the Ziegfeld Theatre where the show was to open and later to be the coordinator of the spectacular, which had her working with stars such as Beatrice Lillie and Bert Lahr, with composer Cole Porter, and writers Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, and musicians Ben Hecht and Benny Goodman.

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