- (1928 - 1953) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1928) Stage Play: Night Hostess. Comedy/drama. Directed by Winchell Smith. Written by Philip Dunning. Martin Beck Theatre: 12 Sep 1928- Dec 1928 (closing date unknown/117 performances). Cast: Jane Allyn (as "Rita"), Carl Alps (as "Musician"), Harry L. Beck (as "Winner and Loser"), J.S. Boatsman (as "First Chump"), Katherine Burns (as "Other Hostesses") [Broadway debut], William Cox (as "Croupier"), Gail De Hart (as "Julia"), Chester De Whirst (as "Second Chump"), Jane Dix (as "Winner and Loser"), Norman Foster (as "Rags Conway"), Jacob Frank (as "Winner and Loser"), Phillip Frank (as "Croupier"), Maurice Freeman (as "Ben Fischer"), Jeff Gaines (as "Croupier"), Beth Gear (as "Winner and Loser"), Porter Hall (as "Tish"), Averell Harris(as "Chris Miller"), Helen Henderson (as "Other Hostesses"), John Humphrey (as "Other Attendant"), Elsie Hyde (as "Winner and Loser"), John L. Kearney (as "Herman"), Louise Kirtland (as "Peggy"), Bjorn Koefoed (as "Winner and Loser"), Charles Laite (as "Tom Hayes"), Henry Lawrence (as "Joe"), Norman Levene (as "Musician"), Lilian Lyndon (as "Dot"), Ruth Lyons (as "Buddy Miles"), Michael Mack (as "Winner and Loser"), Helen McKay (as "Other Hostesses"), Burleigh Morton (as "Winner and Loser"), James G. Morton (as "Winner and Loser"), Nicholas Nardullo (as "Musician"), George Nolan (as "Winner and Loser"), Ned Norton (as "Musician"), Francis O'Reiley (as "Hennessy"), Doris Podmore (as "Other Hostesses"), May Rice (as "Winner and Loser"), Larry Roland (as "Musician"), Janet Spitzer (as "Other Hostesses"), Peggy Vaughn (as "Other Hostesses"), Graham Velsey (as "Cyril Keane") [Broadway debut], Barbara Willison (as "Other Hostesses"), Harold Woolf (as "Frank Wardell"), George Wright Jr. (as "Other Attendant"). Produced by John Golden.
- (1929) Stage Play: The Nut Farm. Comedy.
- (1930) Stage Play: London Calling. Comedy.
- (1930) Stage Play: Meet My Sister. Musical comedy.
- (1931) Stage Play: No More Frontier. Drama.
- (1942) Stage Play: Native Son. Drama (revival).
- (1943) Stage Play: Othello. Drama/tragedy (revival). Written by William Shakespeare. Incidental music by Tom Bennett. Directed by Margaret Webster. Shubert Theatre: 19 Oct 1943- 1 Jul 1944 (296 performances). Cast: Paul Robeson (as "Othello"), José Ferrer (as "Iago"), Uta Hagen (as "Desdemona"), James Monks, Margaret Webster (as "Emilia"), Sam Banham, Henry Barnard, Ronald Bishop, Bruce Brighton, Jeff Brown, Jack de Shay, Martha Falconer, John Gerstad, Albert Hachmeister, Averell Harris (as "Brabantio"), Phillip Huston (as "Lodovico"), John Ireys, Timothy Lynn Kearse, Edith King, David Koser, Jack Manning, Robert E. Perry, Eugene Stuckmann, Graham Velsey (as "Second Senator"), William Woodson. Produced by The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors); Associate Producer: John Haggott.
- (1944) Stage Play: War President.
- (1944) Stage Play: Embezzled Heaven. Drama. Written by Leslie Bush-Fekete and Maria Fagyas [earliest Broadway credit]. Production Design by Stewart Chaney. Costumes for Miss Barrymore, Mr. Basserman, Miss Cerf and Papal Retinue designed by Robert Davison. Assistant to Mr. Chaney: O.L. Raineri. Directed by B. Iden Payne. National Theatre: 31 Oct 1944- 13 Jan 1945 (52 performances). Cast: Ethel Barrymore (as "Teta") [final Broadway role], Sanford Meisner (as "Bichler"), David Barnaby (as "Sediaris"), Wolfe Barzell (as "Prossnitzer"), Albert Basserman (as "The Pope"), Else Basserman (as "Mrs. Schultz"), Julian Benjamin (as "Papal Valet"), Martin Blaine (as "Pastor"), Bettina Cerf (as "Countess Argan"), Marcel Dill (as "Sottomaestro"), Paige Edwards (as "Swiss Guard"), Edward Fernandez (as "Young Mojmir, The Child"), Robert Fletcher (as "Swiss Guard"), Eduard Franz (as "Mojmir"), Edward Kilcullen (as "Maestro di Camera"), Madeline Lee (as "Zdenka"), John McKee (as "Monsignore"), Peggy Meredith (as "Jarmila"), Harry Neville (as "Kompert"), Robert O'Brien (as "Sediaris"), Wauna Paul (as "Mila"), Frank Richards (as "Kovalsky"), Augusta Roeland (as "Franziska"), Sheila Trent (as "Masha"), Don Valentine (as "Mail Carrier"), Graham Velsey (as "Physician"), Val Witherill (as "George"). Produced by The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors). Note: Play was closed from 9 Nov 1944- 11 Dec 1944 due to Ms. Barrymore's illness.
- (1945) Stage Play: And Be My Love. Comedy.
- (1947) Stage Play: As We Forgive Our Debtors. Drama.
- (1947) Stage Play: Our Lan'.
- (1953) Stage Play: The Crucible. Drama. Written by Arthur Miller. Lullaby composed by Anne Ronnell. Hymn composed by Alex Miller. Costume Design by Edith Lutyens. Scenic Design by Boris Aronson. Directed by Jed Harris. Martin Beck Theatre: 22 Jan 1953- 11 Jul 1953 (197 performances). Cast: Arthur Kennedy (as "John Proctor"), Walter Hampden (as "Deputy-Governor Danforth"), E.G. Marshall (as "Reverend John Hale"), Beatrice Straight (as "Elizabeth Proctor"), Jean Adair (as "Rebecca Nurse"), Janet Alexander, Jacqueline Andre, Raymond Bramley, Philip Coolidge, Jenny Egan, Adele Fortin, Jane Hoffman, Dorothy Jolliffe, Donald Marye, Don McHenry, George Mitchell, Madeleine Sherwood, Barbara Stanton, Fred Stewart (as "Reverend Samuel Parris"), Joseph Sweeney, Graham Velsey (as "Francis Nurse") [final Broadway role]. Replacement actors: Philip Coolidge, Nell Harrison (as "Rebecca Nurse"), Cloris Leachman (as "Abigail Williams"), Donald Marye, Claudia McNeil, Leonard Patrick, Judy Ratner, Madeleine Sherwood, Maureen Stapleton (as "Elizabeth Proctor"), Harry Young. Produced by Kermit Bloomgarden.
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