Samuel Lambert(I)

Samuel Lambert was born in St. Louis Missouri in 1909. He began his career in show business as a chorus boy with the St. Louis Municipal Opera. After five years he was made stage manager for the opera company. In 1939 he began a long association with Michael Todd, staging first "The Hot Mikado", and he continued as general stage manager for Todd's long series of Broadway hits, in 1944 overseeing five Todd shows, "The Would-Be Gentleman," "Hamlet", "Up in Central Park", "Mexican Hayride" and "January Thaw." In 1947 Mr. Lambert struck out on his own as a producer. His shows included "Hold It" starring Red Buttons; "All of Love" with Bert Wheeler and the Hartmans; and the hit musical version of Booth Tarkington's "Seventeen."