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The Biograph Girl review " vivacious tribute to silent screen legends by Michael Billington

Finborough, LondonDavid Heneker and Warner Brown's musical captures the heady excitement of the burgeoning movie businessPre-talkies Hollywood constantly seduces musical-makers. This forgotten 1980 British show, with a score by David Heneker and a book by Warner Brown, is infinitely superior to Jerry Herman's more celebrated Mack and Mabel (1974). Where that focuses on the doomed love story of Mack Sennett and Mabel …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM on June 5, 2018

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