- (1932 - 1961) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1932) Stage Play: Walk a Little Faster. Musical revue. Based on material by S.J. Perelman and Robert MacGunigle. Music by Vernon Duke. Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. Producer. St. James Theatre (moved to The Selwyn Theatre on 20 Feb 1933 to close): 7 Dec 1932- 18 Mar 1933 (unknown performances). Cast included: Virginia Allen, Bobby Clark, Joan English, Lay Lazelle, William Culloo (also assistant stage manager), Patricia Dorn, Dave Fitzgibbon, Polly Porter.
- (1933) Stage Play: Sailor, Beware! Comedy. Written by Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Robinson. Directed by Kenyon Nicholson and Arthur Sircom. Lyceum Theatre: 28 Sep 1933- Dec 1934 (closing date unknown/500 performances). Cast: Murray Alper (as "Herb Marley"), John Bard, Audrey Christie, Ruth Conley, Edward Craven, Josephine Evans (as "Dode Bronson"), Larry Fletcher, Bradford Hatton (as "Luther Reed"), George Heller (as "Wop Wilchinski"), Ross Hertz (as "Spud Newton"), Harry Hornick (as "Señor Gomez"), Paul Huber (as "Lieut. Loomis, U.S.N."), Bruce MacFarlane (as "Chester Dynamite Jones"), Horace McMahon (as "Mattie Matthews"), Rod Maybee, Edgar Nelson, Don Rowen, Ann Thomas, Ann Winthrop. Replacement: Effie Afton (as "Ruby Keefer"). Produced by Courtney Burr. Note: Filmed by Paramount Pictures as Lady Be Careful (1936) and by Paramount Pictures as _Sailor Beware (1952) [as a Martin & Lewis vehicle].
- (1933) Stage Play: All Good Americans. Comedy. Written by Laura Perelman and S.J. Perelman. Scenic Design by Mordecai Gorelik. Directed by Arthur Sircom. Henry Miller's Theatre: 5 Dec 1933- Jan 1934 (closing date unknown/40 performances). Cast: Marie Adels (as "Lucy Starkweather"), Harry C. Anderson (as "Bar Man"), Charles Angelo (as "A French Man"), C. Francois Barrere (as "A French Man"), Paula Bauersmith (as "Miss Moorhead"), Hilda Bruce (as "Ginsberg"), Claude Burani (as "A Gendarme"), 'Michelette Burani' (asd "Concierge"), Renee Cartier (as "A French Girl"), Hazel Curry (as "A Colored Girl"), Willard Dashiell (as "Mr. Bond"), Henry De Koven (as "A Rug-Seller"), Eric Dressler (as "Ham Farnsworth"), Coburn Goodwin (as "Rex Fleming"), Johnny Gybelman (as "Moses"), Joseph P. Harris (as "A Bystander"), Charles Henderson (as "Noble Smart"), Fred Keating (as "Pat Wells"), Doris Laurey (as "A French Girl"), Janet McLeay (as "Mary-Louise Porter"), LeRoi Operti (as "George Palfrey"), Mary Philips (as "Cassie Bond"), Helena Rapport (as "Mrs. Greenspan"), Lauza Riane (as "A Flower Woman"), Frank Rowan (as "Metzger"), George Spelvin [actor who wished to remain anonymous] (as "A French Gentleman"), James Stewart (as "Johnny Chadwick"), George Todd (as "Jimmy"), Hope Williams (as "Julie Gable"). Produced by Courtney Burr.
- (1934) Stage Play: Small Miracle. Melodrama. Written by Norman Krasna. Producer. Directed by George Abbott. John Golden Theatre: 26 Sep 1934- Jan 1935 (closing date unknown/117 performances). Cast: Violet Barney, Jean Bellows, Wyrley Birch, Ilka Chase, Edward Crandall, Herbert Duffy, Elspeth Eric, Helen Gardner, Fraye Gilbert, Hitous Gray, Edna Hagan, Allan Hale, Joseph King, George Lambert, James Lane, Owen Martin, Myron McCormick, Robert Middlemass, G. Albert Smith, Joseph Calleia, Lucille Strudwick, Nancy Vane, Juan Varro, William Wadsworth.
- (1934) Stage Play: Ladies' Money. Drama. Written by George Abbott. Previously written by Lawrence Hazard and Richard Flournoy. Directed by George Abbott. Ethel Barrymore Theatre: 1 Nov 1934- Dec 1934 (closing date unknown/36 performances). Cast: Joyce Arling (as "Ruth Potter"), Eleanor Audley (as "Clare Touhey"), Beatrice Behr, Margaret Callahan, Jerome Cowan (as "Nelson Blummer"), Boyd Crawford, Hal K. Dawson (as "Fruity"), Len Doyle (as "Platt Touhey"), Gordon Hamilton, James P. Houston, Frank Jaquet, Garson Kanin (as "Red"), Eric Linden, Helen Lynd, Gertrude Mudge (as "Drunken Woman"), Margaret Mullen, Jack Rigo, Lora Rogers, Robert R. Sloane, J. Ascher Smith (as "2nd Detective"), Nick Wiger. Produced by Courtney Burr.
- (1935) Stage Play: Battleship Gertie. Farce. Written by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. Scenic Design by Boris Aronson. Directed by Arthur Sircom. Lyceum Theatre: 18 Jan 1935- Jan 1935 (closing date unknown/2 performances). Cast: Walter Baldwin (as "Senator Blowney"), Frederick Banker, Oliver Barbour, Moana Chu, Boyd Crawford, William Culloo, Harry Davenport (as "Senator Heffermeister") [final Broadway role], Gladys Griswold, Joseph P. Harris, Frank Jaquet, George Lessey, Helen Lynd, Horace McMahon (as "Marine Sergeant Grogan"), Claude McNair, Burgess Meredith (as "Seaman Jones"), Lora Rogers, Richard Taber, George R. Taylor, Richard Toms, Philip Truex (as "Price"), Philip Wood, Ernest Woodward, Herbert A. Yost. Produced by Courtney Burr.
- (1939) Stage Play: The Happiest Days. Drama.
- (1940) Stage Play: A Case of Youth. Comedy.
- (1941) Stage Play: The Night Before Christmas.
- (1946) Stage Play: Little Brown Jug.
- (1947) Stage Play: The Wanhope Building. Fantasy. Written by John Finch. Directed by Bret Warren. Princess Theatre: 9 Feb 1947- 16 Feb 1947 (5 performances). Cast: Frieda Altman (as "Madam Endor"), Martin Balsam (as "Eddie"), Margaret Barker (as "Miss Queen"), Courtney Burr (as "Sleeping Drunk/Mr. 12"), Haskell Coffin, Frederic Cornell, Walter Craig, Winifred Cushing (as "Housewife"), Blair Cutting, Anthony Grey, Clark Howat, John Jordan, Octavia Kenmore, Will Kuluva (as "Brown Hat"), Edmond Le Comte, Dorothy Patterson, Don Peters, Ford Rainey (as "First Customer/John B. Sherman"), Frank Richards, Lexford Richards (as "Arnold"), Billy Rollo, Penelope Sack, Beatrice Straight (as "Felina"), Robert Wark. Produced by Theatre Incorporated.
- (1947) Stage Play: An Inspector Calls. Drama. Written by J.B. Priestley. Producer, with Lassor H. Grosberg. Directed by Cedric Hardwicke. Booth Theatre: 21 Oct 1947- 10 Jan 1948 (95 performances).
- (1950) Stage Play: Season in the Sun. Comedy. Written by Wolcott Gibbs. Producer. Directed by Burgess Meredith. Cort Theatre (moved to The Booth Theatre on 14 May 1951- close): 28 Sep 1950- 11 Aug 1951 (367 performances). Cast: Nancy Kelly, Richard Whorf, King Calder, Kathy Chapman, Joan Diener, Maggie Gould, George Ives, Doreen Lang, Paula Laurence, Stanley Martin, Eddie Mayehoff, Anthony Ross, Eugene Steiner, Charles Thompson, Grace Valentine, Jack Weston.
- (1951) Stage Play: Out West of Eighth. Comedy. Written by Kenyon Nicholson [final Broadway credit]. Scenic Design and Lighting Design by Ralph Alswang. Ethel Barrymore Theatre: 20 Sep 1951- 22 Sep 1951 (4 performances). Cast: Tommy Allen (as "Blaine Rambo"), Donald Bain (as "Mr.Ogilbie"), Barbara Baxley (as "Virginia Beamer"), Patricia John Canty (as "Peaches Gomez"), Richard Carlyle (as "Eddie Todd"), Mary Carver (as "Ginger Hornick"), Irene Cowan (as "Rita Crummitt"), Gene Darfler (as "Cecil Wulliver"), Cliff Dunstan (as "Horace MacNamara"), Earl Jay Gilbert (as "Dad Offutt"), Martin Greene (as "Tony Demopolis"), Al Henderson (as "Everett Garner"), Margaret Hill (as "Gale Rambo"), Brian Keith [credited as Robert Keith, Jr.] (as "Lash Castro"), Donald McClelland (as "Harry Crummitt"), Bill McCutcheon (as "Skeeter Roach"), Jim Moreno (as "Clovis Garrett"), Alan Jay Schnapier (as "Lyman Stack"), Charles Thompson (as "Booger Lowry"), Dennis Weaver (as "Virgil Lavendar") [final Broadway role], Charles Windell (as "Delbert Moon"). Produced by Courtney Burr and Malcolm L. Pearson. Note: No directorial credit indicated in records.
- (1952) Stage Play: The Seven Year Itch. Comedy. Written by George Axelrod. Music composed and arranged by Dana Suesse. Producer, with Elliott Nugent. Directed by John Gerstad. Fulton Theatre: 20 Nov 1952- 13 Aug 1955 (1141 performances). Cast: Vanessa Brown, Tom Ewell, Marilyn Clark, Joan Donovan, Robert Emhardt, Pat Fowler, George Ives, George Keane, Johnny Klein, Irene Moore, Neva Patterson. Produced by Courtney Burr and Elliott Nugent.
- (1955) Stage Play: The Wayward Saint. Comedy/fantasy.
- (1956) Stage Play: Speaking of Murder. Melodrama. Written by Audrey Roos and William Roos. Directed by Delbert Mann. Royale Theatre: 19 Dec 1956- 19 Jan 1957 (37 performances). Cast: Brook Byron, Brenda De Banzie, Virginia Gerry, Lorne Greene (as "Charles Ashton"), Robert Mandan (as "Mitchell"), Neva Patterson, Billy Quinn, Estelle Winwood (as "Mrs. Walworth"). Produced by Courtney Burr and Burgess Meredith.
- (1957) Stage Play: The Genius and the Goddess.
- (1958) Stage Play: Jane Eyre. Romance.
- (1959) Stage Play: Golden Fleecing. Comedy. Written by Lorenzo Semple Jr.. Incidental music by Dana Suesse. Producer. Henry Miller's Theatre: 15 Oct 1959- 26 Dec 1959 (84 performances). Cast: Tom Poston, Robert Carraway, Mickey Deams, Robert Elston, Constance Ford, Red Granger, Alfred Hesse, Buck Kartalian, Richard Kendrick, John Myhers, Suzanne Pleshette, Ralph Stanley, John Thomas. Note: Produced on film as the Steve McQueen vehicle, The Honeymoon Machine (1961).
- (1960) Stage Play: Send Me No Flowers. Comedy. Written by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore [final Broadway credit]. Scenic Design and Lighting Design by Frederick Fox. Directed by James Dyas. Brooks Atkinson Theatre: 5 Dec 1960-7 Jan 1961 (40 performances). Cast: Helen-Jean Arthur, Bruce Brighton, Heywood Hale Broun, Judy Carrol, Richard McMurray, Frank Merlin, Michael Miguel O'Brien, Carolyn Olsen, Nancy Olson, Joe Ponazecki, Peter Turgeon, David Wayne (as "George Kimball"). Produced by Courtney Burr and Edward Specter Productions Inc. Note: Filmed by Martin Melcher Productions [distributed by Universal Pictures] as Send Me No Flowers (1964).
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