Broadway
Broadway may refer to:
Theatre
* Broadway Theatre (disambiguation)
* Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
** Broadway (Manhattan), the street
**Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ...
Theatre Guild
The Theatre Guild is a theatrical society founded in New York City in 1918 by Lawrence Langner, Philip Moeller, Helen Westley and Theresa Helburn. Langner's wife, Armina Marshall, then served as a co-director. It evolved out of the work of the W ...
and staged by
Lee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg (born Israel Strassberg; November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982) was an American theatre director, actor and acting teacher. He co-founded, with theatre directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931 ...
and
Cheryl Crawford
Cheryl Crawford (September 24, 1902 – October 7, 1986) was an American theatre producer and director.
Biography
Born in Akron, Ohio, Crawford majored in drama at Smith College. Following graduation in 1925, she moved to New York City and ...
. It ran for 91 performances from September 28, 1931 to November 14, 1931 at the
Martin Beck Theatre
The Al Hirschfeld Theatre, originally the Martin Beck Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 302 West 45th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1924, it was designed by G. Albert Lansburgh in a Moorish and ...
and then from November 16, 1931 to
January 2, 1932 at the Mansfield Theatre. It was the inaugural production of the Group Theatre.
It was adapted into the 1934 film ''Carolina'' directed by Henry King and starring
Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor (born Laura Augusta Gainor; October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American film, stage, and television actress.
Gaynor began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films. After signing with Fox Film Corporation (later ...
,
Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''A Free Soul'' (1931) ...
Stella Adler
Stella Adler (February 10, 1901 – December 21, 1992) was an American actress and acting teacher. ''
Eunice Stoddard
Eunice is a feminine given name, from the Greek Εὐνίκη, ''Euníkē'', from "eu", good, and "níkē", victory. Eunice is also a relatively rare last name, found in Nigeria and the Southeastern United States, chiefly Louisiana and Georgia.
Pe ...
as Evelyn Connelly
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Morris Carnovsky
Morris Carnovsky (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1992) was an American stage and film actor. He was one of the founders of the Group Theatre (1931-1940) in New York City and had a thriving acting career both on Broadway and in films un ...
as Robert Connelly
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Franchot Tone
Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor, producer, and director of stage, film and television. He was a leading man in the 1930s and early 1940s, and at the height of his career was known ...
as Will Connelly
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Phoebe Brand
Phoebe Brand (November 27, 1907 – July 3, 2004) was an American actress.
Life
Brand was born in Syracuse, New York in 1907 and raised in Ilion, Herkimer County, New York. Her father worked for Remington Typewriter Company as a mechanical en ...
as Serenader
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J. Edward Bromberg
Joseph Edward Bromberg (born Josef Bromberger, December 25, 1903 – December 6, 1951) was a Hungarian-born American character actor in motion picture and stage productions dating mostly from the 1930s and 1940s. Knowledge of his past as a membe ...
as Duffy
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William Challee
William John Challee (April 6, 1904 – March 11, 1989) was an American actor.
Biography
Challee was born in Chicago and was a student at Lake View High School.
Challee appeared on Broadway by 1926 and by 1931 in early Group Theatre produc ...
as Jodie and as Serenader
*
Walter Coy
Walter Darwin Coy (January 31, 1909 – December 11, 1974) was an American stage, radio, film, and, principally, television actor, arguably most well known as John Wayne's character's brother in ''The Searchers'' (1956).
Early years
Originally ...
as Charlie and as Serenader
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Lewis Leverett
Lewis may refer to:
Names
* Lewis (given name), including a list of people with the given name
* Lewis (surname), including a list of people with the surname
Music
* Lewis (musician), Canadian singer
* "Lewis (Mistreated)", a song by Radiohead ...
as Serenader
* Robert Lewis as Alf and as Serenader
*
Rose McClendon
Rose McClendon (August 27, 1884 – July 12, 1936) was a leading African-American Broadway actress of the 1920s. A founder of the Negro People's Theatre, she guided the creation of the Federal Theatre Project's African American theatre units n ...
as Big Sue
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Mary Morris
Mary Lilian Agnes Morris (13 December 1915 – 14 October 1988) was a Fijian born British actress.
Life and career
Morris was the daughter of Herbert Stanley Morris, a botanist, and his wife, Sylvia Ena de Creft-Harford. She trained at the Roy ...
Clifford Odets
Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, as O'Neill began to withdra ...
as Reuben and as Serenader
* Art Smith as Jesse Tate
* Margaret Barker as Patsy Tate
* Fanny De Knight as Big Sis
* Virginia Farmer as Serenader
* Sylvia Feningston as Serenader
* Friendly Ford as Isaac and as Serenader
* Gerrit Kraber as Tyler and as Serenader
* Gertrude Maynard as Serenader
* Paula Miller as Serenader
*
Dorothy Patten
Dorothy Patten (January 24, 1905 – April 11, 1975) was an American theatre producer and actress.
Biography
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee to a wealthy family, Patten rejected the traditional role of a Southern socialite and hostess and s ...
as Virginia Buchanan
* Herbert Ratner as Henry
* Philip Robinson as Ransom and as Serenader
* Clement Wilenchick as Alec and as Serenader