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showing results    1 - 50 of 284 titles     on off  images   on off  sort by   title date  results per page         10  25  50  75  100  <  1  2  3  4  5  6  > Eileen Darby Photo Assignments John Henry December 30, 1939 Starring Paul Robeson in the title role at the Colonial Theatre in Boston. The show opened on Broadway 11 days later on January 10th, 1940 at the 44th Street Theatre. Despite its short run this was the show that marked the beginning of Eileen Darby's Theatre photography career, the images of which were her first published in the NY Times Photo Section in 1940 by photo editor Victor Talley. 11 images » Two On An Island January 13, 1940 The Elmer Rice comedy about a boy from Ohio who meets a girl from New Hampshire while trying to find success on the island of Manhatten. The show featured a very large cast of over 90 performers including Betty Field and John Craven as the young lovers. Set design by Jo Mielziner. The show ran for 96 performances. images available upon request There Shall Be No Night March 27, 1940 Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne star in the Robert E. Sherwood 1941 Pulitzer Prize winning drama about the Russian takeover of Finland in 1938. The show featured Montgomery Clift, Phylis Thaxter, and Sydney Greenstreet. images available upon request Return Of The Vagabond May 8, 1940 George M. Cohan reprises his role as the vagabond made famous in the 1920 play "The Tavern". The play was a terrible flop, closing after only 7 performances, and causing Mr. Cohan to sadly remark, "They don't want me no more." It was his last appearance on Broadway. Widely noted as opening on May 17th, the play actually opened on May 13th and closed on May 18th. images available upon request Flight to the West December 13, 1940 Elmer Rice's anti-nazi drama about a disparate group of characters aboard a Yankee Clipper flight from Lisbon to New York. The play featured Betty Field, Karl Malden, Hugh Marlowe, and Kevin McCarthy, ran for 136 performances, and was considered one of the best of the year. Set design by Jo Mielziner. images available upon request My Sister Eileen December 23, 1940 My Sister Eileen was a joyous comedy based on Ruth McKenney's New Yorker stories about the urban adventures of her attractive sister Eileen. The Max Gordon production, staged by George S. Kaufman, ran for an incredible 864 performances. In a tragic twist, newlyweds Eileen McKenney and husband novelist Nathaniel West were killed in an automobile accident only 4 days before the opening. The show was adapted into the great musical Wonderful Town by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Leonard Bernstein in 1953. images available upon request Louisiana Purchase circa 1940 A musical comedy featuring Broadway team William Gaxton and Victor Moore, Irene Bordoni, Vera Zorina, Carol Bruce, and with a score by Irving Berlin. Victor Moore stars as Senator Oliver P. Loganberry on a campaign to expose the corruption of the Louisiana government in this lighthearted spoof inspired by the administration of the late Governor Huey Long. images available upon request Carmen Amaya January 20, 1941 famous Spanish dancer Carmen Amaya. images available upon request Native Son March 5, 1941 Based on the fantastic award winning novel by Richard Wright and directed by Orson Welles only two months before the release of his film masterpiece Citizen Kane. Starring Canada Lee as Bigger Thomas, a tormented black man in the slums of South Side Chicago wanted for killing a white woman. A powerful commentary on the American racial environment. 20 images » Boys and Girls Together March 21, 1941 A musical revue starring Ed Wynn with a score by Irving Kahal and Jack Yellen. images available upon request Night Before Christmas March 29, 1941 A comedy in three acts written by Laura Perelman and S.J. Perelman. The show featured Harry Bratsburg (who later became Colonel Sherman T. Potter on the hit TV show M*A*S*H), a young Shelley Winters, and was later made into the film "Larceny, Inc." starring Edward G. Robinson and featuring Anthony Quinn and Jane Wyman. images available upon request The Beautiful People April 15, 1941 Images from the opening of the William Saroyan play at the Lyceum Theatre, 1941. 22 images » Betsy Blair / Betsy Allen May 21, 1941 Betsy Blair was the wife of Gene Kelly. images available upon request Mister Big September 4, 1941 The rehearsals of the murder-mystery comedy produced and staged by Geroge S. Kaufman that ran for only 7 performances. Featuring Fay Wray, Hume Cronyn, Mitzi Hajos, Betty Furness, and Robert Whitehead. images available upon request Candle In The Wind September 13, 1941 Chosen as one of the 10 best plays of the 1941-1942 season, starring Helen Hayes, staged by Alfred Lunt, and featuring Evelyn Varden and Lotte Lenya. images available upon request Jooss Ballet September 23, 1941 images available upon request The More the Merrier September 26, 1941 The comedy staged by Otto Preminger. It ran for 16 performances at the Cort Theatre and featured Keenan Wynn, Teddy Hart, J.C. Nugent, Frank Albertson, and Grace McDonald. images available upon request Anne of England September 27, 1941 Drama produced by Gilbert Miller that ran for only 7 performances with Flora Robson, Frederic Worlock, Leo G. Carroll and Jessica Tandy as Abigail Hill (afterwards Mrs. Masham) at the St. James Theatre. images available upon request Mata and Hari October 10, 1941 Eccentric dancers Ruth Mata (Meta Krahn) and Eugene Hari (Otto Ulbricht). images available upon request Macbeth October 22, 1941 The revival starring Dame Judith Anderson and Maurice Evans with Staats Cotsworth as Banquo. It was very successful and ran for 131 performances. images available upon request Spring Again October 26, 1941 A successful comedy directed by Guthrie McClintic featuring Grace George and C. Aubrey Smith. The plot tells of a long suffering wife subjected to constant stories of her husband's Civil War hero father at Shiloh who decides to recount his families real true story as a dramatized radio serial. images available upon request Theatre November 15, 1941 Posed photographs images available upon request High Kickers circa 1941 The 171 performances hit starring George Jessel and Sophie Tucker. A burlesque troop is arrested in Ohio, but manages to get off by exposing the mayor's wife as an old trooper. images available upon request Let's Face It! circa 1941 Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, starring Danny Kaye with Vivian Vance, Eve Arden, and Edith Meiser. Featuring Nanette Fabray, Mary Jane Walsh, Helena Bliss. Based on the 1925 hit comedy play, "The Cradle Snatcher's." images available upon request American Theatre Wing Stage Door Canteen Opening March 2, 1942 images available upon request A Kiss For Cinderella March 8, 1942 The revival of the 1916 play by James M. Barrie, best known for Peter Pan. Starring Luise Rainer, fresh from back-to-back Academy Award wins in 1936 and 1937. images available upon request Silvia Weld May 26, 1942 images available upon request Laugh Town Laugh June 4, 1942 The Broadway vaudeville show featuring Carmen Amaya, Jane Froman, and starring Ed Wynn. The show was Miss Froman's last before her tragic plane accident that crushed both her legs in Lisbon, Portugal in 1943. images available upon request Gene Autry July 28, 1942 14 images » Morning Star August 21, 1942 Gregory Peck made his Broadway debut in this Guthrie McClintic production, written by Emlyn Williams, which centers on the happenings of the British newspaper Morning Star. The play was Peck's calling card to Hollywood, despite its short 24 performance run and less than stellar reviews. These images are from the rehearsal. 7 images » Eve of St. Mark September 3, 1942 The very well received Maxwell Anderson war play about the journey of Quizz West (William Prince) from a young farm boy to a soldier in the jungles of the Philippines. The play was adapted into a film featuring Vincent Price in 1944. images available upon request Maid In The Ozarks September 14, 1942 A farce staged by Jules Pfeiffer. The play about Kentucky hillbillies migrated from Los Angeles to Chicago and was roundly panned by critics. Tenaciously, the producer kept the show running until it was purchased by two Chicagoans who better marketed the show with a panache that drew theatre-goers and brought the play to profit. After five successful years traveling the country the play finally made it to Broadway in 1946. images available upon request Show Time September 17, 1942 A highly successful (342 performances) vaudeville show featuring George Jessel, Jack Haley, Ella Logan, and Lucille Norman. It was the longest running Broadway show up to that point. images available upon request Wine Women And Song September 26, 1942 A revue-vaudeville-burlesque show that ran for 150 performances and featured Margie Hart, Jimmy Savo, Pinkie Lee, and Herbie Faye. images available upon request The Skin Of Our Teeth October 14, 1942 Written by Thornton Wilder, directed by Elia Kazan, and featuring Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Tallulah Bankhead, Florence Reed, and Montgomery Clift. Considered one of the best American plays ever written, this magical fantasy depicts the entire history of humanity in the persons of Mr. and Mrs. George Antrobus, their family, and friends. 3 images » The Great Big Doorstep October 27, 1942 Dorothy Gish and Louis Calhern head an impoverished Cajun family caught in a Louisiana flood, when the doorstep of a patrician mansion floats on to their property. The doorstep installed at the entrance to their shack fuels their desires for a grander life, in this comedy by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. images available upon request Yankee Point November 7, 1942 A comedy in three acts directed by and starring John Cromwell and Edna Best, featuring John Forsythe. Produced by Edward Choate, the show ran for only 24 performances. images available upon request The Great Big Doorstep November 11, 1942 Dorothy Gish and Louis Calhern head an impoverished Cajun family caught in a Louisiana flood, when the doorstep of a patrician mansion floats on to their property. The doorstep installed at the entrance to their shack fuels their desires for a grander life, in this comedy by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. images available upon request The Sun Field November 14, 1942 The short-lived baseball comedy by Milton Lazarus, based on the novel by Heywood Broun. The flop ran for 5 performances and was called by one critic, "A lengthy anecdote." images available upon request Counsellor-at-Law November 20, 1942 A successful revival of one of Elmer Rice's most popular plays about an attorney who prefers the warmth of his secretary to the cold indifference of his wife. Paul Muni recreates his original role from the 1931 production. images available upon request The Three Sisters November 26, 1942 Katharine Cornell, Judith Anderson, and Gertrude Musgrove star as the three sisters in this distinguished revival of the Anton Checkov play, staged by Guthrie McClintic. The show featured Edmund Gwenn, Dennis King, Alexander Knox, Ruth Gordon, and, in a bit part, a very young Kirk Douglas making his Broadway debut. images available upon request The Russian People December 12, 1942 An adaptation by Cliford Odets of a Konstantin Simonov drama, produced by The Theatre Guild. Elisabeth Fraser and Leon Ames are lovers in this story of the heroic battle waged by humble Russian villagers against the well-armed invading Nazi army. images available upon request Dark Eyes December 16, 1942 Three destitute Russian actresses in New York write a bad check and hope to be rescued by accepting an invitation to a Long Island estate. Writer/actresses Elena Miramova and Eugenie Leontovich are joined by Ludmilla Toretzka to complete the madcap trio that finds rescue in finance and romance in this popular farce directed by Jed Harris. The show ran for 230 performances. images available upon request Something For The Boys December 17, 1942 A musical comedy starring Ethel Merman with Allen Jenkins and Paula Laurence. Produced by Mike Todd, written by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The show featured choreography by Jack Cole and was his first Broadway musical. Three distant cousins inherit a Texas mansion located near an Army base and become involved in military and romantic maneuvers. images available upon request This is the Army circa 1942 Irving Berlin's revue, written as a benefit for the U.S. Army Emergency Relief Fund. The play was turned into a film version in 1943, successfully raising $9.5 million, becoming the most profitable film of that year. All of the cast and production team of the Broadway show were former or current members of the armed forces. images available upon request Miles White January 11, 1943 Gifted costume designer Miles White paints designs in his studio during the production of the Ziegfeld Follies of 1943. His show immediately following was Oklahoma!. 5 images » The Patriots January 21, 1943 The first play produced by The Playwrights' Company for a playwright who was not a founding member of the group. Written by Sidney S. Kingsley and starring his wife, Madge Evans. The play explores the philosophic differences between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton on the future of the United States. images available upon request Counterattack January 23, 1943 Featuring Morris Carnovsky and Sam Wanamaker as Red soldiers interrogating seven German soldiers (Karl Malden) during the siege of a small town on the Eastern front. The play ran for 85 performances. images available upon request 50 Years Empire Theatre - "Life With Father" January 25, 1943 Special showing of Life With Father, for the 50th Anniversary of the Empire Theatre. 10 images » Men In Shadow March 10, 1943 Originally an English play in 1942, the show was brought to Broadway in 1943. A flop that ran for 21 performances, the drama revolves around the hiding of three American airmen in an old French mill house. Written by Mary Hayley Bell, wife of renown actor John Mills, and produced by Max Gordon. images available upon request <  1  2  3  4  5  6  >

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