My Wild Irish Rose
Sheet Music
ca.1922 (published)
ca.1922 (published)
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The American actress Pauline Starke (1901-1977) depicted on this music sheet cover made her debut in 1916 as a dancer in D.W. Griffith's film Intolerance and became a prominent silent film actress during the 1920s and early 1930s.
The melodramatic play The Shaughraun by Dion Boucicault on which the film My Wild Irish Rose was based was a great success after its initial production at Wallack's Theatre, New York in 1874.
The melodramatic play The Shaughraun by Dion Boucicault on which the film My Wild Irish Rose was based was a great success after its initial production at Wallack's Theatre, New York in 1874.
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| Title | My Wild Irish Rose (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Lithograph, intermediate pages composed of printed text |
| Brief description | Music sheet for the waltz ballad My Wild Irish Rose words and music by Chauncey Olcott, 'introduced' in the motion picture My Wild Irish Rose, featuring Pauline Starke. Feldman's 6d Edition, published by Bert Feldman & Co., ca.1922. |
| Physical description | Music sheet for My Wild Irish Rose words and music by Chauncey Olcott with a photograph of the silent film actress Pauline Starke. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mr R.S. Arnold |
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| Summary | The American actress Pauline Starke (1901-1977) depicted on this music sheet cover made her debut in 1916 as a dancer in D.W. Griffith's film Intolerance and became a prominent silent film actress during the 1920s and early 1930s. The melodramatic play The Shaughraun by Dion Boucicault on which the film My Wild Irish Rose was based was a great success after its initial production at Wallack's Theatre, New York in 1874. |
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| Accession number | S.1094-2014 |
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| Record created | May 7, 2014 |
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