High Button Shoes
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![Scene from the Broadway play in 1948](/Images/godic/202501/30/High_Button_Shoes_19481241.JPG")
High Button Shoes is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn and book by George Abbott and Stephen Longstreet. It was based on the semi-autobiographical 1946 novel The Sisters Liked Them Handsome by Longstreet. The story concerns the comic entanglements of the Longstreet family with two con men in Atlantic City.