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Center Theatre, NY

1939

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1939

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2 Act

Play/Drama

24

20

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Notes: written with Moss Hart

Synopsis: In 1896, Martin Gunther, a German immigrant, sends for his wife and children so that they may enjoy the advantages of America. The play covers fifty years of their life as Americans. Martin, a cabinet maker, proves to be a man of such strong principles that he gives up a $1,000 order rather than refuse to fill a $1.25 order of a scorned suffragette friend. Later he urges his son Karl to fight against his own German kin in World War I. Martin's honesty and skill are rewarded by prosperous years, but he sacrifices all in 1933 trying to save his benefactor's bank. In 1939, his grandson, Karl, embittered by his inability to find a job, is about to join an fascist organization, when Martin intervenes. While pleading for a renewed faith in Democracy, he is struck down by the mob. Martin dies, as he has lived, an American, fighting for that which gives meaning and richness to lifeFreedom.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1957

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15 min sketch

One Act

1

1

1 dog

Notes: written with Leueen MacGrath

Synopsis: Has to do with Alicia and Bill Reynolds, an attractive young couple who have quarreled and are planning to separate. Right now they're in the process of dividing all their possessions, and quarreling considerably more in doing soeverything at all desirable they both claimall the junk each generously offers to the other. The real trouble comes when the dog walks through the rooma fight over custody of the animal reaches really monumental proportions. Alicia walks out as Bill puts a sentimental record on the phonograph Alicia, who has furiously been labeling everything in the room with her name, reappears, with a label plastered on herself, labeling her as Bill's

Forty-fourth Street Theatre

1928

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2 act musical comedy

Musical

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Notes: by George S Kaufman with Morrie Ryskind. Music and lyrics: Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.

Synopsis: -

New Amsterdam Theatre, NY

1931

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Original cast recording: Sepia (1056)

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2 act revue

Musical

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Notes: Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Howard Dietz; Book by George S. Kaufman and Howard Dietz

Synopsis: -

Sam H. Harris Theatre, NY

1924

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2 act musical comedy

Musical

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Notes: With Marc Connelly, Music: Lewis Gensler and Milton Schwartzwald.

Synopsis: -

Broadhurst Theatre, NY

1924

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1925

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Play/Drama

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Notes: With Marc Connelly. Suggested by Paul Apel's Hans Sonnenstossers Hollenfahrt.

Synopsis: -

Lyceum Theatre, NY

1948

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1949

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3 Act

Play/Drama

9

7

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Notes: written with Edna Ferber

Synopsis: It is a glamorous and entertaining comedy about a group of refugee theatre people.

Longacre Theatre, NY

1925

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Samuel French, NY

1925

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3 act

Comedy

8

5

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Notes: -

Synopsis:

Plymouth Theatre

1929

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3 act

Comedy

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Notes: With Alexander Woollcott

Synopsis: -

Medicine Show, USA >>>

1979

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Notes: Text by George S. Kaufman, Ring Lardner and Gertrude Stein; Music by Michael Rice

Synopsis: -

Lyric Theatre, NY

1925

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2 act musical comedy

Musical

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Notes: book by George S. Kaufman; music and lyrics by Irving Berlin

Synopsis: launches a string of get-rich-quick schemes to bail out his bankrupt resort. And although he's aided by a pair of goofballs, they mostly succeed in fouling things up.
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Morosco Theatre, NY

1933

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1934

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3 Act

Melodrama

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Notes: With Alexander Woollcott

Synopsis: -

Frayzee Theatre

1923

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3 act

Comedy

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Notes: With Marc Connelly

Synopsis: -

Music Box theatre, NY

1932

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Six Plays [Heinemann Edition]

1932

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3 act

Comedy

13

11

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Notes: written with Edna Ferber

Synopsis:

Frayzee Theatre

1921

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Samuel French, NY

1921

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3 act

Comedy

8

3

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Notes: written with Marc Connelly

Synopsis:

Broadhurst Theatre, NY

1938

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1938

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2 Act

Play/Drama

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75 parts

Notes: written with Moss Hart

Synopsis: A series of romantic and comic episodes glorifying show business on Broadway

Royale Theatre, NY

1952

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1952

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3 act

Comedy

6

4

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Notes: written with Leueen MacGrath

Synopsis: In the words of Walter Kerr (Herald Tribune): "& an attractive and energetic female&has spent 5,000 years tracking down her man, without ever trapping him into matrimony. We first meet her in a wedding gown, in the year 1952, as she is about to make a marriage of convenience with somebody else. But she cannot go through with it." and she chucks the prospective bridegroom. "This is the cue for the first of several flashbacks, and we pick up our determined lass in the stone age, begging to be tapped by her negligent cave man. Later, we see her as a Roman slave-girl, still on the trail, hot for her lover whose current reincarnation has turned him into a shepherd boy." In her contemporary manifestation Amanda Phipps discovers that the art critic Heybore, who has come to interview her, is none other that the man she has been in love with for five millennia. Ultimately Amanda meets the fate she has awaited for so many centuries.

Music Box theatre, NY

1935

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1936

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3 act

Comedy

14

11

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Notes: written with Katharine Dayton

Synopsis: The conflict centers upon the feud between two Washington hostesses, who show no quarter in their struggle for the position of First Lady. Irene Hibbard, wife of a Supreme Court Justice, incurred the undying hatred of Lucy Chase Wayne, wife of the Secretary of State, when she stole the latter's cook. For revenge Lucy, to discourage Irene's interest in a young Senator, lets a false rumor circulate that the party is considering Hibbard for the Presidency. Irene immediately returns to the family hearth to "stick with her husband in his hour of need." But the rumor goes out of Lucy's control and threatens to become a reality. Realizing she would be responsible for thwarting her own husband, Lucy frantically tries to repair the damage. The battle between them rages at social functions and in congressional lobbies. When all seems lost Lucy gets a brilliant inspiration and with the help of the foreign office learns that a former marriage of Irene's is still in effect, the foreign obtained divorce not being recognized in this country. Using this she forces Irene to retire from the field.

Lyceum Theatre, NY

1940

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1940

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3 act

Comedy

9

8

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Notes: written with Moss Hart

Synopsis: The story chronicles the trials and tribulations of Newton Fuller who cravesand gets"a little place in the country to call his own." Newton and his wife, Annabell, and their daughter, Madge, are hypnotized into taking over one of those windowless, waterless, almost roofless houses that dot the countryside. The ensuing troubles may be summed up by a search for water, a quarrel with a neighbor who owns not only the brook but the very road that leads from the highway to the house, the attempted elopement of the daughter with a summer-theatre actor, and the usual invasion of the weekend guests, including a prodigal uncle who is assumed to be rich but turns out to be just another bankrupt. It is discovered that the neighbor really doesn't own Newton's roadway, and that Newton's wife, who began by showing disgust over her husband's idiocy in wanting to live in the country, decides that he was right all along.

Playhouse, NY

1926

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1931

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3 act

Comedy

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Notes: With Herman J. Mankiewicz

Synopsis: -

Selwyn Theatre

1923

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Musical comedy, prologue and 2 acts

Musical

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Notes: With Marc Connelly. Music and lyrics: Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.

Synopsis:

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

-

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Notes: music by Sir Arthur Sullivan

Synopsis: Joseph Porter heads Pinafore Pictures amid a swirl of recognizable Hollywood types: Louhedda Hopsons, a gossip columnist; a veritable chain gang of imprisoned screen writers and "dumb blondes" looking to become famous; a devious agent; and Brenda Blossom, a love-struck starlet pining for a lowly writer, yet promised in marriage to the studio head by her father (a director looking to advance his own career). What's Brenda to do? If she marries the poor, starving screen writer, Ralph, she'll be tossed out of Hollywood and forced to make a living on (gasp!) the stage. It's too much to be endured. Fortunately, everything turns out for the best for everyone when it is discovered that a mix-up in Louhedda's column was responsible for Ralph's fall from grace. In reality, it was Ralph who was meant to head the studio instead of Porter. Upon this classic turnaround, happiness befalls each of the characters in turnjust what you'd expect from a Hollywood picture.

Alvin Theatre

1937

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1937

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Musical revue, 2 acts

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Notes: With Moss Hart. Richard Rodgers. Lyrics: Lorenz Hart.

Synopsis: -

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comedy

One Act

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Notes: -

Synopsis: -

Vaudeville, London

1992

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Samuel French, London

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Comedy with music

Play/Drama

7

5

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Notes: written By Ring Lardner And George S Kaufman

Synopsis: talented young lyricist arrives in New York in 1929 to make money, returns to true love after adventures with money grabbing vamp

Music Box Theatre, NY

1941

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1941

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3 Act

Play/Drama

19

12

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Notes: written with Edna Ferber

Synopsis: The exciting and picturesque story of a family of "Robber Barons," who at the end of the nineteenth century brought their millions to New York and founded one of those get-rich quick dynasties, which make our history a colorful pageant. The play dramatizes episodes in the life of members of the family from the 1890s on, showing the high spots in the lives of three generations.

Lyceum Theatre

1944

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1946

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3 acts and epilogue

Comedy

8

8

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Notes: written by George S Kaufman and John P Marquand. Based on Marquand's novel of the same name

Synopsis: The Apleys and their in-laws furnish delightful and incisive comedy and drama against which we see George's two children, a young man and a young woman, each of whom strives heroically to break away from the shackles of family and tradition: Eleanor manages to do so and makes a satisfactory life for herself, while John, who falls in love with a young woman who had the bad taste not even to be born in Boston, is crushed by his father and all his father stands for

Imperial Theatre, NY

1933

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1933

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2 act

Comedy

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Notes: With Morrie Ryskind. Music: George Gershwin. Lyrics: Ira Gershwin.

Synopsis: -

Music Box Theatre

1939

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1939

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3 act

Comedy

15

9

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Notes: written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

Synopsis: Sheridan Whiteside, having dined at the home of the Stanleys, slips on their doorstep, breaking his hip. A tumultuous six weeks of confinement follow. The Stanley living room is monopolized by the irascible invalid; ex-convicts are invited to meals; and transatlantic calls bring a $784 phone bill. The arrival of strange gifts from his friends further destroys domestic tranquility. It would take a stoical housewife to harbor penguins in her library, an octopus in her cellar, and 10,000 cockroaches in her kitchen. When Maggie, his secretary, falls in love with the reporter, Bert Jefferson, Whiteside summons a glamorous actress, Lorraine, to win the affections of the young man. Knowing the girl's charms, Maggie enlists the aid of a clever impersonator who, affecting the voice of Lord Bottomley, whom the actress hopes to marry, asks her by phone to return to him and be married. The ruse almost works, but Whiteside, becoming suspicious, finds that no calls have come through from London. In revenge, Lorraine suggests a three-week rewrite on a play of Bert's in which she feigns great interest. Lake Placid is to furnish the quiet for his inspiration, and she is to be his collaborator. The unexpected arrival of a mummy case, just as the relenting Whiteside is frantically seeking to get rid of Lorraine, furnishes a malicious idea. Tricking her into stepping into the case, he shuts the lid and blackmails his host into having the case carried to the airport, preparatory to a round-the-world cruise. Whiteside departs from the Stanley's home triumphantly, but a second later a crash is heardhe has again slipped and fallen!

Music Box Theatre

1934

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Samuel French, NY

1934

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3 Act

Play/Drama

35

22

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Notes: written with Moss Hart

Synopsis:

Cort Theatre, NY

1922

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Samuel French, NY

1925

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4 Act

Comedy

7

4

extras

Notes: written with Marc Connelly; novel by Harry Leon Wilson

Synopsis: story of American youth, an interesting commentary on motion pictures and an intensely human study of character

Booth Theatre, NY

1924

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Samuel French, NY

192004

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3 act

Comedy

6

9

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Notes: written with Edna Ferber. Based on a short story by Miss Ferber.

Synopsis:

am H. Harris Theatre

1931

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Revival cast recording: Angel (65025)

1952

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2 act musical comedy

Musical

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Notes: With Morrie Ryskind. Music: George Gershwin. Lyrics: Ira Gershwin.

Synopsis: -

Music Box Theatre, NY

1930

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Samuel French, London

1930

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3 act

Comedy

24

14

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Notes: written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

Synopsis: Period 1920's, three down and out troupers go to Hollywood and try their luck with the newly invented 'talkies'

Shubert Theatre

1946

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2 act musical comedy

Musical

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Notes: With Nunnally Johnson. Music: Arthur Schwartz. Lyrics: Ira Gershwin.

Synopsis: -

Selwyn Theatre, NY

1927

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French?

1928

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3 act

Comedy

11

6

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Notes: written with Edna Ferber

Synopsis: Story of a great family of the American stage.

Imperial Theatre

1955

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Tams-Witmark, 757 Third Ave., New York, NY

1955

Original cast recording: RCA (1102)

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2 act musical comedy

Musical

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