- (1935 - 1936) Active on Broadway in the following production:
- (1935) Stage Play: Parnell. Historical drama. Written by Elsie T. Schauffler [ealiest Broadway credit]. Directed by Guthrie McClintic. Ethel Barrymore Theatre: 11 Nov 1935- Feb 1936 (closing date unknown/99 performances). Cast: Gordon Burby (as "The O'Gorman Mahon"), Phyllis Connard, George Curzon, John Emery (as "Captain William Henry O'Shea"), Alexander Frank (as "Gladstone"), Walter Holbrook (as "Montagu Harrison"), Joseph Holland (as "Timothy Healy"), Barry Kelly (as "1st Leader"), Edward MacNamara (as "Michael Davitt"), Barry Macollum (as "Thomas Murphy"), Ruth Matteson (as "Mrs. Steele"), Winston O'Keefe (as "3rd Leader"), Clement O'Loghlen (as "John Redmond"), Margaret Rawlings (as "Katharine O'Shea"), Harry Redding (as "Mr. Stanley"), Effie Shannon (as "Mrs. Benjamin Wood"), Charles Trexler (as "2nd Leader"), Ruth Yorke (as "Phyllis"). Produced by Robinson Smith and Frederick W. Ayer. Note: Play sold to MGM as a Clark Gable vehicle, Parnell (1937). It became the biggest flop in that studio's history to date (possibly excluding the troubled inherited production of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), whose costs were not revealed). Gable regarded it as his worst film and it nearly led to his refusing Gone with the Wind (1939).
- (1936) Stage Play: Parnell. Historical drama (revival). Written by Elsie T. Schauffler. Staged by Robinson Smith and Frederick Ayer. Directed by Robinson Smith and Frederick Ayer. 48th Street Theatre: 4 May 1936- Jun 1936 (closing date unknown/32 performances). Cast: Edith Barrett (as "Katharine O'Shea"), Hugh Bigelow, Gordon Burby, Gage Clarke, Phyllis Connard, Enid Cooper (as "Mrs. Steele"), John Emery (as "Captain William Henry O'Shea"), Alexander Frank (as "Gladstone"), Whitford Kane (as "Michael Davitt"), Dennis King (as "Parnell"), Barry Macollum, Winston O'Keefe (as "Timothy Healy"), Clement O'Loghlen, Harry Redding (as "Mr. Stanley"), Effie Shannon (as "Mrs. Benjamin Wood"), William Swetland (as "3rd Leader"), Charles Trexler. Produced by Pierce Power-Waters. Note: Filmed by MGM as Parnell (1937) as a Clark Gable vehicle.
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