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Bring on the Girls! is a semi-autobiographical collaboration between P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, first published in the United States on 5 October 1953 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on 21 May 1954 by Herbert Jenkins, London.^[1]

Subtitled "The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy, With Pictures To Prove It", it takes the form of a series of partly fictionalised, partly apocryphal stories centred on the world of Broadway, where both Wodehouse and Bolton had worked successfully as lyricists, collaborating with the likes of composer Jerome Kern. It features anecdotes about the larger-than-life characters who dominated Broadway between 1915 and 1930, but the biographer Frances Donaldson writes that it is to be read as entertainment rather than history: "Guy, having once invented an anecdote, told it so often that it was impossible to know whether in the end he believed it or not."^[2]

The title of the book refers to adding a chorus ensemble to a dull scene in a musical comedy in order to improve the scene, which, according to the book, is "the panacea that never fails". As stated in the book's opening pages:

Actors might walk through their parts, singers save their voices, but the personnel of the ensemble never failed to go all out, full of pep, energy and the will to win. A hundred shows have been pushed by them over the thin line that divides the floperoo from the socko. It is for this reason that Bolton (Guy) and Wodehouse (P.G.), looking back over their years of toil in the musical comedy salt mines, raise their glasses and without hesitation or heel taps drink this toast: "To the Girls!" And they feel that the least they can do in gratitude for all their hard work is to honor them in the title of this book.^[3]

References and sources

References

^ McIlvaine, E., Sherby, L.S. and Heineman, J.H. (1990) P. G. Wodehouse: A comprehensive bibliography and checklist. New York: James H. Heineman, pp. 88–89. ISBN 087008125X
^ Donaldson, p. 12
^ Wodehouse & Bolton (1984) [1953], Bring On the Girls!, chapter 1, pp. 1–2.

Sources

Donaldson, Frances (1983). P. G. Wodehouse – The Authorized Biography. London: Futura. ISBN 0-7088-2356-4.
Wodehouse, P. G.; Bolton, Guy (1984) [1953]. Bring on the Girls!: The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy, With Pictures to Prove It (Reprinted ed.). New York: Limelight Editions. ISBN 0-87910-011-7.

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The Russian Wodehouse Society's page

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Film	A Gentleman of Leisure (1915) Uneasy Money (1918) A Damsel in Distress (1919) Piccadilly Jim (1919) The Prince and Betty (1919) Oh, Lady, Lady (1920) Their Mutual Child (1920) A Gentleman of Leisure (1923) The Clicking of Cuthbert (1924) The Golden Butterfly (1926) The Small Bachelor (1927) The Cardboard Lover (1927) Oh, Kay! (1928) Brother Alfred (1932) The Passionate Plumber (1932) Leave It to Me (1933) Summer Lightning (1933) Anything Goes (1936) Piccadilly Jim (1936) Thank You, Jeeves! (1936) Step Lively, Jeeves (1937) A Damsel in Distress (1937) Thunder and Lightning (1938) Her Cardboard Lover (1942) Anything Goes (1956) The Girl on the Boat (1961) By Jeeves (2001) Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Television	The World of Wooster (1965–67) The World of Wodehouse (1967–68) Wodehouse Playhouse (1975–78) Jeeves and Wooster (1990–93) Heavy Weather (1995) Blandings (2013–14)
Radio	What Ho! Jeeves (1973–81) Blandings (1985–92)
Stage	Jeeves (later By Jeeves) (1975/1996) Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (2013) A Damsel in Distress (2015)

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Screenplays	Ambassador Bill (1931) Devil's Lottery (1932) Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) Ziegfeld Follies (1945) Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) Easter Parade (1948) Adorable Julia (1962)
Musicals	Very Good Eddie (1915) Oh, Boy! (1917) Leave It to Jane (1917) Miss 1917 (1917) Kissing Time (1918) Oh, Lady! Lady!! (1918) Primrose (1924) Lady, Be Good (1925) Tip-Toes (1926) Oh, Kay! (1926) Girl Crazy (1930) Anything Goes (1935)
Other	A Song of Sixpence (1930) Come On, Jeeves (1952) Bring On the Girls! (1953)
Family	Ivy May Bolton (sister) Marguerite Namara (2nd wife)

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