- (1930) Stage Play: Once in a Lifetime. Comedy. Written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Stage Manager: Robert B. Sinclair [earliest Broadway credit]. Scenic Design by Cirker & Robbins. Directed by George S. Kaufman. Music Box Theatre: 24 Sep 1930- Sep 1931 (unknown closing date/406 performances). Cast: Frances E. Brandt (as "Mrs. Walker"), Jane Buchanan (as "A Voice Pupil"), Spring Byington (as "Helen Hobart"), George Casselberry (as "One of Three Scenario Writers"), Payson Crane (as "Bellboy"), Louis Cruger (as "Weisskopf"), Janet Currie (as "Phyllis Fontaine"), Jean Dixon (as "May Daniels"), Walter Dreher (as "Rudolph Kammerling"), Marie Ferguson (as "Miss Fontaine's Maid"), Stanley Fitzpatrick (as "Page"), Eugenie Frontai (as "Florabel Leigh"), Harold Grau (as "Mr. Flick"), Charles Halton (as "Herman Glogauer"), Virginia Hawkins (as "Miss Chasen"), John O. Hewitt (as "Electrician"), Marc Loebell (as "Ernest"), Edward Loud (as "Miss Leigh's Chauffer/Leading Man"), Charles Mack (as "Miss Fontaine's Chauffer"), Georgia MacKinnon (as "Script Girl"), Burton Mallory (as "One of Three Scenario Writers"), Leona Maricle (as "Miss Leighton"), William McFadden (as "Meterstein"), Edwin Mills (as "Page"), Grant Mills (as "Jerry Hyland"), Irving Morrow (as "Bishop"), Hugh O'Connell (as "George Lewis"), Sally Phipps (as "Susan Walker"), Oscar Polk (as "Porter"), Kempton Race (as "One of Three Scenario Writers"), Robert Ryder (as "George's Secretary"), Otis Schaefer (as "Coat Check Girl"), Dorothy Talbot (as "Miss Leigh's Maid"), Frances Thress (as "Bridesmaid"), Clara Waring (as "Cigarette Girl"), Jack Williams (as "Electrician"). Produced by Sam Harris. Replacement actors: Granville Bates (as "Bishop"), Warner Bliss (as "Miss Leigh's Chauffer"), Jane Buchanan (as "Susan Walker"), Moss Hart (as "Lawrence Vail"), Irving Morrow (as "First Cameraman"). Note: Mr. Berlin had no direct involvement with this production aside from theatre ownership (with Sam Harris).
- (1932) Stage Play: Dinner at Eight. Comedy. Written by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. Scenic Design by Livingston Platt. Press Representative: John Peter Toohey. Assistant Director: Robert B. Sinclair. Directed by George S. Kaufman. Music Box Theatre: 22 Oct 1932- May 1933 (closing date unknown/232 performances). Cast: George Alison, Ann Andrews, Clarence Bellair, Marguerite Churchill (as "Paula Jordan"), Constance Collier, Margaret Dale (as "Hattie Loomis"), Malcolm Duncan (as "Oliver Jordan"), Austin Fairman (as "Dr. J. Wayne Talbot"), Janet Fox, Gregory Gaye, Robert Griffith, Paul Harvey (as "Dan Packard"), Vera Hurst, Ethel Intropidi, Sam Levene (as "Max Kane"), Frank Manning, William McFadden, Mary Murray, Hans Robert (as "Ed Loomis"), Cesar Romero (as "Ricci"), James Seeley (as "The Waiter"), Conway Tearle, Dorothy Waters, Judith Wood (as "Kitty Packard"), Olive Wyndham (as "Lucy Talbot"). Replacement actors: Margaret Sullavan (as "Paula Jordan") [from Mar 1933- close], Charles Trowbridge (as "Oliver Jordan"), Jane Wyatt (as "Paula Jordan") [from May 1933- ?]. Produced by Sam Harris. Note: Filmed by MGM [most notable version] as Dinner at Eight (1933), Dinner at Eight (1989), Dinner at Eight (2007).
- (1933) Stage Play: For Services Rendered. Written by W. Somerset Maugham. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. Booth Theatre: 12 Apr 1933- Apr 1933 (closing date unknown/21 performances). Cast: Jean Adair (as "Charlotte Ardsley"), Fay Bainter (as "Eva Ardsley"), Leo G. Carroll (as "Sydney Ardsley"), Lillian Kemble-Cooper (as "Ethel Bartlett"), Henry Daniell, David Glassford, Mabel Gore, Walter Kingsford (as "Wilfred Cedar"), Richie Ling (as "Leonard Ardsley"), Elisabeth Risdon (as "Gwen Cedar"), Percy Waram (as "Howard Bartlett"), Jane Wyatt (as "Lois Ardsley"). Produced by Sam Harris.
- (1933) Stage Play: Peace on Earth. Drama. Written by George Sklar and Albert Maltz. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. Civic Repertory Theatre: 29 Nov 1933- 17 Mar 1934 (126 performances). Cast: Abner Biberman (as "Ensemble"), Donald Black, John Boruff (as "Stephen Hamill/Max/Radio Announcer"), Halliam Bosworth (as "President Howard"), John Brown, John Caraway, Carl Carlsen, Allace Carroll, Julia Colin, Joe Connors, Harry Constantine, Thomas Coffin Cooke, Alvin Dexter, Charles Esdale, Elliot Fisher, Earl Ford, Clyde Franklin, John Garfield [credited as Jules Garfield] (as "The Messenger"), Mary George, David Gray, Millicent Green (as "Rose"), Fred Herrick, Ethel Intropidi (as "Jo Owens"), Robert Keith (as "Peter Owens"), David Kerman (as "Fenning"), Victor Kilian (as "Fred Miller"), David Lesan, James MacDonald, George Nafely, Caroline Newcombe, George Russell, Sigmund Salomon, Paul Stein, Ralph Steves, Mara Tartar, Charles Thompson, Frank Tweddell (as "Krauss/Bill Prentice/Attorney Gordon"), Walter Vonnegut, W. Washington, Jack Williams. Produced by The Theatre Union.
- (1934) Stage Play: Dodsworth. Drama. Based on a novel by Sinclair Lewis, as adapted by Sidney Howard. Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. Shubert Theatre: 24 Feb 1934- 30 Jun 1934 (147 performances). Cast included: Walter Huston, Nick Adams, Fay Bainter, Harlan Briggs, Kent Smith, Nan Sunderland, John Williams. Produced by Max Gordon. Note: Filmed by The Samuel Goldwyn Company [distributed by United Artists] as Dodsworth (1936).
- (1934) Stage Play: Peace on Earth. Drama [return engagement]. Written by George Sklar and Albert Maltz. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. 44th Street Theatre: 31 Mar 1934- 17 Apr 1934 (18 performances). Cast: Abner Biberman (as "The Guard"), Donald A. Black, John Boruff (as "Walter McCracken"), Halliam Bosworth, Alice Brooks, John Brown, Allace Carroll, Thomas Coffin Cooke, Alvin Dexter, Charles Esdale (as "Dean Walker/The Judge"), Earl Ford, John Garfield (as "Bob Peters/The Messenger"), David Gray, Millicent Green (as "Rose"), Ethel Intropidi (as "Jo Owens"), David Kerman (as "Fenning/Radio Announcer"), David Lesan, James MacDonald, Hilda Reis, Paul Stein, Mara Tartar, Charles Thompson, Frank Tweddell (as "Krauss/Bill Prentice/Attorney Gordon"), Walter Vonnegut, Maurice Wells, Crane Whitley (as "Fred Miller") [credited as Clem Wilenchick]. Produced by The Theatre Union.
- (1934) Stage Play: Dodsworth. Drama (return engagement). Written by Sidney Howard. From the novel by Sinclair Lewis. Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. Shubert Theatre: 20 Aug 1934- Jan 1935 (closing date unknown/168 performances). Cast: Nick Adams, Fay Bainter (as "Fran Dodsworth"), Harlan Briggs (as "Thomas J. Pearson, called "Tubby"), Charles Christensen, Hal K. Dawson (as "A.B. Hurd"), Marie Falls, Lucille Fenton, Flora Fransioli, Bert Gardner, Charles Halton, Ethel Hampton, Leonore Harris, Walter Huston (as "Samuel Dodsworth"), Ethel Jackson, Jack Kingsberry, Nolan Leary, Marie Mallon, Beatrice Maude, William E. Morris, Charles Powers, Dorothy Raymond, John Roberts, Ralph Simone, Kent Smith (as "Kurt von Obersdorf"), Nan Sunderland, Myrtle Tannehill, Frank W. Taylor, Arthur Uttry, Betty Van Auken, John Williams (as "Clyde Lockert"), Mervin Williams, Jay Wilson. Produced by Max Gordon. Note: Filmed as Dodsworth (1936). Note: Filmed by The Samuel Goldwyn Company [distributed by United Artists] as Dodsworth (1936).
- (1934) Stage: Directed "Dance With Your Gods" on Broadway. Drama. Written by Kenneth Perkins. Mansfield Theatre: 6 Oct 1934-Oct 1934 (closing date unknown/9 performances). Cast: John Antiga, Oliver Barbour (as "William Simpson"), Edna Barr, Cuto Beauchamp, Amelia Benskina, William Bodkin, Anita Bogart, Louis Broges, Dewey Brown (as "Jeffries"), Teddy Brown, Olive Burgoyne (as "Madame Chou"), Peter Clark, Iodilo Coker, Cecil Cunningham, Beatrice Elegore, H. Webster Elkins, Marjorie Fowlkes, John Gordon, Olive Gordon, Georgette Harvey (as "Mother Bouche"), George Hayes, Eleanor Hines, Charles Hollis, Lena Horne (as "A Quadronne Girl"; Broadway debut), Rex Ingram (as "Maitre Livers"), Lulu B. King, Clifton Lamb, Moses Mainns, Diafmore Martin, Joseph Maxwell, Pauline Moore (as "Ninon Juvenal"), Ethel Purbello, Muriel Robert (as "A Tourist"), Wardell Saunders (as "Ensemble"), Archie Savage (as "Ensemble"), Joseph Scott, Ben Smith, Ella Smith, Al Stokes (as "Maitre Buffon"), Barclay Trigg (as "Baptiste"), O.J. Vanasse (as "Bartender"), Jacques Vanderhouse, Charles Waldron (as "Amos Juvenal"), Grayson Walker, Althea Weston, Musa Williams. Produced by Laurence Schwab.
- (1935) Stage Play: A Journey By Night. Drama. Written by Arthur Goodrich from the German of Leo Perutz. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. Shubert Theatre: 16 Apr 1935- Apr 1935 (closing date unknown/7 performances). Cast: Sarah Allen (as "Guest at the Night Bar"), Hobart Amory (as "Guardsman"), George Barr (as "Policeman"), Mimi Bontemps (as "Hedwig"), Jane Buchanan (as "Janet Fleming"), Eduardo Ciannelli (as "Max"), Martin Corne (as "Guest at the Night Bar"), Tom Coyle Guest at the Night Bar"), Isabel Delehanty (as "Trudie"), Ann Dere (as "Guest at the Night Bar"), Annette Downes (as "Vilma"), Harold Eidelseim (as "Guest at the Night Bar"), Jack Hartley (as "Schimke"), Nicholas Joy, Elizabeth Kendall (as "Anna"), Waldemar Klavun (as "Otto"), Jerome Leng (as "Guest at the Night Bar"), Greta Maren (as "Claire"), Kate Mayhew (as "Weinigl"), Joseph McInerney (as "Police Officer"), John Meehan (as "Guest at the Night Bar"), Fuller Mellish (as "Fritz"), Mary Murray (as "Hilda"), P. Phillips (as "Guest at the Night Bar"), Francis Pierlot (as "Adolph"), John Ray (as "Guest at the Night Bar"), Otis Schaeffer (as "Lisa"), James Stewart (as "Carl"), Beatrice Swanson (as "Julie"), Richard Taber (as "Ferdie"), Albert Dekker (as "Franz Urban") [credited as Albert Van Dekker], Frank Wilcox (as "Warren Fleming"). Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1935) Stage: Directed "Pride and Prejudice" on Broadway. Comedy. Dramatized by Helen Jerome. Based on the novel by Jane Austen. Music arranged by / Musical Direction by Alexander Haas. Stage Manager: Eddie Sobol. Assistant Stage Mgr: Jock Munro. Scenic Design / Costume Design by Jo Mielziner. Plymouth Theatre: 5 Nov 1935-May 1936 (closing date unknown/219 performances). Cast: Adrianne Allen, Stephen Appleby, Gail Bolger, Frances Brandt, Helen Chandler (as "Jane Bennet"), Jeannette Chinley, Chouteau Dyer, Brenda Forbes, John Halloran, Nancy Hamilton, Ferdi B. Hoffman (as "A Second Young Man"), James Jolley, Colin Keith-Johnston (as "Mr. Darcy"), Alma Kruger (as "Lady Catherine de Bourgh"; final Broadway role), Kathleen Moran, Hugh Nevill, Viola Roache (as "Mrs. Gardiner"), Dorothy Scott, Harold Scott, John Davenport Seymour, Harold Thomas, Joan Tompkins, Percy Waram (as "Mr. Bennet"), Lucile Watson, Edwina Wise, Dare Wright. Produced by Max Gordon.
- (1936) Stage Play: The Women. Comedy. Written by Clare Boothe Luce. Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. Ethel Barrymore Theare: 26 Dec 1936- Jul 1938 (closing date unknown/675 performances). Cast: Charita Bauer (as "Little Mary"), Eloise Bennett (as "Euphie"), Eileen Burns (as "Miss Fordyce")), Jessie Busley (as "Mrs. Morehead"), Mary Cecil (as "Maggie") [final Broadway role], Ilka Chase, Virgilia Chew (as "Miss Watts"), Audrey Christie (as "Miriam Aarons"), Beatrice Cole (as "Second Model"), Doris Day [not the Doris Day of later movie fame] (as "First Saleswoman"), Margaret Douglass (as "Countess de Lage"), Lucille Fenton (as "Head Saleswoman/A Nurse"), Arlene Francis, Margalo Gillmore (as "Mary, Mrs. Stephen Haines"), Ruth Hammond (as "Olga"), Joy Hathaway (as "A Fitter"), Anne Hunter (as "Exercise Instructress"), Ethel Jackson (as "Mrs. Wagstaff"), Betty Lawford (as "Crystal Allen"), Marjorie Main (as "Lucy"), Adrienne Marden (as "Peggy, Mrs. John Day"), Jane Moore (as "Second Hairdresser"), Mary Murray (as "Miss Trimmerback"), Lillian Norton (as "Cigarette Girl"), Phyllis Povah, Jean Rodney (as "Second Saleswoman"), Jane Seymour (as "Nancy Blake"), Mary Stuart (as "First Hairdresser"), Ann Teeman (as "Jane"), Martina Thomas (as "Third Saleswoman"), Beryl Wallace, Ann Watson (as "Pedicurist"), Marjorie Wood (as "Sadie"). Replacement actors: Claire Carleton (as "Crystal Allen"), Jeanne Cooley (as "Second Saleswoman"), Marjorie Dalton (as "Third Saleswoman"), Edith Gresham (as "Countess de Lage"), Gladys Griswold (as "Miriam Aarons"), Enid Markey (as "Olga"), Lillian Norton (as "Second Hairdresser"), Ethel Remey (as "Lucy"), Tanya Sanina (as "Helene/Princess Tamara"), Jacqueline Susann (as "First Model") [Broadway debut]. Produced by Max Gordon. Note: Filmed as The Women (1939), The Women (1955).
- (1936) Stage Play: St. Helena. Drama. Written by R.C. Sherriff and Jeanne De Casalis. Scenic Design and Costume Design by Jo Mielziner. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. Lyceum Theatre: 6 Oct 1936- Nov 1936 (closing date unknown/63 performances). Cast: Paul Adams, Robert Ansteth, Stephen Ker Appleby, Harry Bellaver (as "The Abbe Vignali"), Stephen Courtleigh, Samuel Danzig, Lewis Dayton, Joseph De Santis, Jules Epailly (as "Cipriani"), Maurice Evans (as "Napoleon"), Edward Fielding (as "Adm. Sir George Cockburn"), Whitford Kane (as "Dr. O'Meara"), Jack Kelly (as "Tristan Montholon"; juvenile role), Marc Loebell, Joseph Macaulay, Reginald Mason (as "Gen. Count Betrand"), Charles F. O'Connor, Francis Pierlot (as "The Abbe Buonovita"), Rosamond Pinchot, Paul Porter, Edward Ryan Jr., Kay Strozzi (as "Countess Montholon"), Barry Sullivan (as "St. Denis"), Joyce Walsh, Percy Waram (as "Sir Hudson Lowe"), Alan Wheatley. Produced by Max Gordon.
- (1937) Stage Play: Babes in Arms. Musical comedy. Material by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Music orchestrated by Hans Spialek. Musical Director: Gene Salzer. Choreographed by George Balanchine. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. Shubert Theatre (moved to The Majestic Theatre from 25 Oct 1937-close): 14 Apr 1937-18 Dec 1937 (289 performances). Cast: Roy Adler, Buddy Allen, Micky Alvarez, Jay Bee, Libby Bennett, Verna Ceders, Stella Clauson, Tania Clell, Alex Courtney, Mitzie Dahl, Dan Dailey (as "The Gang"), Clifton Darling, Aljan de Loville, Jere Delaney, 'Alfred Drake (I)', Bronson Dudley, Eleanor Fiata, Bob Fishelson, Gloria Franklin, Ted Gary, James Gillis, Mitzi Green, Dana Hardwick, Claire Harvey, Ray Heatherton, Mickey Herson, Georgia Hiden, Ethel Intropidi (as "Mazie LaMar"), LeRoy James, Marjorie Jane, Alvin Kerr, Bobby Lane, Betty Lee, Connie Leslie, Don Liberto, George E. MacKay, Grace McDonald (as "Dolores Reynolds"), Ray McDonald, Duke McHale, Wynn Murray (as "Baby Rose, The Singer"), Fayard Nicholas (as "Irving DeQuincy"), Harold Nicholas (as "Ivor DeQuincy"; both credited as the Nicholas Brothers), Jean Owens, Audrey Palmer, Douglas Perry, Gedda Petry, Rolly Pickert, Aileen Poe (as "Emma Blackstone"), Robert Rounseville, Ursula Seiler, Jack Stanton, Eleanor Tennis, Davenie Watson, George Watts, Kenneth Wilkins. Production supervised and Produced by Dwight Wiman. Note: Filmed by MGM as Babes in Arms (1939).
- (1938) Stage Play: Save Me the Waltz. Comedy. Written by Katharine Dayton. Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. Martin Beck Theatre: 28 Feb 1938- Mar 1938 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Reginald Bach, Leslie Barrie, Leo G. Carroll (as "King Frederick IV"), Arthur Chatterton, Mady Christians, Laura Hope Crews (as "The Countess Zubowska"), John Emory, Derek Fairman, Brenda Forbes (as "Elfrida Von Zedlitz-Wetzel"), Lauren Gilbert, Mary Howes, Arnold Korff (as "Stroock"), Fred Irving Lewis (as "Elmer Wetzel"), George Macready (as "Dmitri"), Molly Pearson, Francis Pierlot (as "Chapek"), Mary Reeves, Hayden Rorke (as "Duca"), James Seeley, Martha Sleeper, Jane Wyatt (as "Princess Claudine"). Produced by Max Gordon. Produced in association with Sam Harris.
- (1939) Stage Play: The Philadelphia Story. Comedy. Written by Philip Barry. Scenic Design by Robert Edmond Jones. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. Shubert Theatre: 28 Mar 1939- 30 Mar 1940 (417 performances). Cast: Vera Allen, Lorraine Bate, Shirley Booth (as "Elizabeth Imbrie"), Owen Coll (as "Thomas"), Joseph Cotten (as "C.K. Dexter Haven") [appeared courtesy of The Mercury Theatre/Orson Welles], Frank Fenton (as "George Kittredge"), Philip Foster, Van Heflin, Katharine Hepburn (as "Tracy Samatha Lord"), Nicholas Joy (as "Seth Lord"), Lenore Lonergan, Hayden Rorke (as "Mac"), Forrest Orr (as "William Tracy/Uncle Willy"), Myrtle Tannehill (as "May"), Dan Tobin. Produced by The Theatre Guild. Note: Filmed by MGM as The Philadelphia Story (1940).
- (1941) Stage Play: The Wookey. Written by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. Scenic Design / Lighting Design by Jo Mielziner. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. Plymouth Theatre: 10 Sep 1941- 3 Jan 1942 (134 performances). Cast: Edmund Gwenn (as "Mr. Wookey"), Heather Angel (as "Primrose Wookey"), Victor Beecroft, Milton Blumenthal, Roland Bottomley (as "A.R.P. Warden"), Grace Collins, Sean Dillon, Neil Fitzgerald, Charles Francis, Carol Goodner, Nora Howard, Stephen McNally (as "Rory McSwiggin"; billed as Horace McNally), John Moore, Henry Mowbray (as "Constable Simpson"), Olive Reeves-Smith (as "The Vack Lady"), Everett Ripley, Byron Russell (as "Mr. Archibald"), Gilbert Russell, Allen Shaw, Cora Smith, Harry Sothern (as "First-Aid Man"), George Sturgeon, John Trevor. Produced by Edgar Selwyn.
- (1942) Stage: Directed "Without Love" on Broadway.
- (1949) Stage: Directed "My Name is Aguillon" on Broadway.
- (1951) Stage: Directed "Never Say Never" on Broadway (final Broadway credit). Comedy. Written by Carl Leo. Booth Theatre: 20 Nov 1951-24 Nov 1951 (7 performances). Cast: Royal Beal (as "Jasper Hornblower III"), Don Briggs (as "Lester B. Sprawls"), Anne Jackson (as "Coralie Jones"), Hugh Reilly (as "Alex Wesley"), Nita Talbot (as "Gloria Sampson"; Broadway debut), H.M. Wynant (credited as Haim Winant; as "Maxie Jordan"; Broadway debut]. Produced by Albert H. Rosen and Lester Meyer.
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