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Knickerbocker Holiday

50% | Mar 17, 1944 | Music, Comedy, History

The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of his first official acts is to call for the death of Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy), a newspaper publisher well-known for his fearless exposes of police and government corruption. However, Broeck hasn't done anything that would justify the death penalty, so Stuyvesant waits (without much patience) for Broeck to step out of line. Broeck is romancing a beautiful woman named Tina Tienhoven (Constance Dowling), whose sister Ulda (Shelley Winters) happens to be dating his best friend, Ten Pin (Johnnie "Scat" Davis). After Stuyvesant's men toss Broeck in jail on a trumped-up charge, Stuyvesant sets his sights on winning Tina's affections.

Featured Crew

Harry Joe Brown
Director
Maxwell Anderson
Theatre Play

Cast

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Nelson Eddy
Brom Broeck
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Charles Coburn
Peter Stuyvesant
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Constance Dowling
Tina Tienhoven
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Ernest Cossart
Tienhoven
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Shelley Winters
Ulda Tienhoven

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