''The Marriage of Kitty'' is a 1902 comedy play by

Cosmo Gordon Lennox Cosmo Charles Gordon-Lennox (17 August 1869 – 31 July 1921), whose stage name was Cosmo Stuart, was a British actor and playwright of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. He became known as an actor in the 1890s, but by the turn of the centur ...

. It is an English-language adaptation of the French play ''La Passerelle'' by Francis de Croisset and Fred de Gresac which premiered in Paris the same year. It ran for 293 performances on its initial run in London's West End, first at the Duke of York's Theatre before moving to Wyndham's then to the Criterion Theatre. The original cast included Marie Tempest, Leonard Boyne, Gilbert Hare and Ellis Jeffreys. A Broadway production at the Hudson Theatre ran for 51 performances in 1903.

Film adaptations

The play was made into a 1915 silent film of the same title directed by George Melford and starring Fannie Ward. A second adaptation '' Afraid to Love'' was produced in 1927, directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Florence Vidor and Clive Brook.

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