''Nice People'' was a 1921 Broadway four-act comedy written and staged by Rachel Crothers, produced by Samuel H. Harris and starring Tallulah Bankhead and

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. After working with Bankhead in ''39 East'', Crothers wrote ''Nice People'' expressly for her. The general manager was William G. Norton, the scenic was designed by Navon Bergman, and John Kirkpatrick was the

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. It ran for 120 performances from March 2, 1921 to June, 1921, at the Klaw Theatre. It was included in Burns Mantle's ''The Best Plays of 1920-1921''. Burns Mantle
''The Best plays of 1920-21 and the year book of the drama in America''
New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1921
Pg. 224
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's Broadway debut. It was adapted into the 1922 silent film '' Nice People'', now believed to be lost.

Cast

* Martin Alsop as Hubert Gloucester *

as Theodora Gloucester * Tallulah Bankhead as Hallie Livingston *

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as Billy Wade *

as Eileen Baxter-Jones * Charles Gibney as Mr. Heyfer * Edwin Hensley as Trevor Leeds * Hugh Huntley as Scottie Wilbur * Merle Maddern as Margaret Rainsford * Guy Milham as Oliver Comstock

References

*
University of Texas Arlington Library Theatre

External links

* The full text of
Nice People
' at the Internet Archive * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nice People (play) 1921 plays Broadway plays Plays set in New York City American plays adapted into films