JEAN KERR   (1923 - 2003)

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JEAN KERR

Finishing Touches

1st Produced:

Plymouth Theatre, New York

1973

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

3

Female

3

Parts other:

2b

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Katy and Jeff Cooper have three sons (one a Harvard senior), a comfortable suburban home, and the prospect of a full professorship (English) for Jeff. But somehow the bloom has worn off their marriage: Jeff is at that dangerous age where an attractive student has caught his eye; while Katy is more receptive than she might admit to the attentions of the attractive bachelor professor who rents their garage apartment. Yet when their Harvard son returns home with a lovely young actress who proves to be his mistress it rather shocks his conventional parents-but also triggers the hilarious, and headlong, events that form the central action of the play. Fortunately the resultant crises are resolved in due course, and with all the skill, taste and perceptive humor that have become hallmarks of Jean Kerr's unique comic gift.

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JEAN KERR

Goldilocks

1st Produced:

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, NY

11 Oct 1958

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

Original cast recording: Sony (48222)

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#38827

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

Large Cast

Notes:

Book by Walter Kerr and Jean Kerr; Music by Leroy Anderson; Lyrics by Joan Ford, Walter Kerr and Jean Kerr;

Setting: 1913. Onstage, New York City; Maggie's dressing room; Max's lot; the Fat Cat Roof Garden; Huckleberry Island; a rest home on the mainland; Bessie's barn, up the Hudson; ballroom, George's town house; Egypt-on-the-Hudson

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JEAN KERR

Jenny Kissed Me

1st Produced:

Hudson Theatre, New York

1948

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

4

Female

10

Parts other:

girls

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A charming young girl comes to live in the household of an elderly priest. Jenny, 18, is the precise opposite of the kind of smart sophisticated young miss that puzzles and exasperates Father Moynihan. The plot is concerned with the priest's clumsy endeavors to make Jenny attractive to the boys. Studying feminine magazines and getting pointers on feminine psychology and new fashions, he is so successful that he nearly overplays his hand. A romance runs through the play, which ends in the engagement of Jenny to an attractive, somewhat older man who, trying hard to be fair and give Jenny a chance to meet eligible youngsters, almost risks losing her. But this man had been Jenny's choice from the first. The play is made doubly amusing by several young girls and boys, all of whom manage to make Jenny "hep." Or rather, so they think, since Jenny remains to the end a simple and attractive girl, and her union with the man she loves is a proper solution to all the plots and plans of the various characters.

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JEAN KERR

John Murray Anderson's Almanac

1st Produced:

Imperial Theatre, NY

1953

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#38800

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Genre:

Musical Harlequinade

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Music by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross; Lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross; Additional music by Cy Coleman, Michael Grace, Joseph McCarthy, Henry Sullivan, John Rox, Bart Howard and Harry Belafonte; Sketches by Jean Kerr, Sumner Lock-Elliot, Arthur Mac

Synopsis:

n/a

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JEAN KERR

King Of Hearts

1st Produced:

Lyceum Theatre, NY

1954

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Doubleday, Garden City, 1954

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

6

Female

2

Parts other:

2b 1 dog

Notes:

written by Jean Kerr and Eleanor Brooke

Synopsis:

Larry Larkin draws a comic strip and, to put it bluntly, would take all prizes as the world's No. 1 egoist. Larry is engaged to his secretary, Dunreath Henry, a very nice girl, who sees Larry as he sees himself-not as everyone else sees him. To create a triangle, Francis X. Dignan then appears; ostensibly he's to draw Larry's strip while Larry takes a month off to honeymoon with Dunreath; but Dignan immediately decides his purpose in life is to save Dunreath from what he calls "the fate worse than the fate worse than death." There's also Norman, a small boy from Australia, whom Larry adopts to show what a good guy he really is. Dignan and Norman, between them, eventually manage to convince Dunreath that she's really in love with Dignan, and the three of them go off together while Larry happily broods on his own greatness.

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JEAN KERR

Lunch Hour

1st Produced:

Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Ny

1980

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, London, 1981

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

a pair whose spouses are having an affair, counter by having an affair of their own

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JEAN KERR

Mary, Mary

1st Produced:

Helen Hayes Theatre, NY

1961

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, London, 1960

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#19133

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

As Howard Taubman of the New York Times describes: "You will not be overwhelmed to discover that Mary is contrary and that her trouble is basic insecurity. Seems she had an older sister, a stunner. Oh, the traumatic effect on Mary! In high school she went out for the literary monthly instead of with boys. She learned to compensate for her drabness by being clever. When we meet her, she is as witty as-well, Jean Kerr. She appears at the apartment of her former husband, Bob, because his lawyer has summoned her to help with Bob's sticky tax returns. Their marriage, it seems, foundered on the rocks of Mary's unrelenting sense of humor. The moment she arrives she gives us some excellent samples of it. It takes Dirk Winston, a handsome film hero whose star is in decline, to understand Mary. Dirk makes her face up to her secret. He also kisses her and offers her the kind of adoration her practical and obtuse husband has been unable to manage. Just in time, Bob, who has been on the verge of marrying a rich, young health fiend named Tiffany Richards, realizes that he still needs Mary. It will not be killing any suspense to reveal that true love triumphs."

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JEAN KERR

Our Hearts Were Young And Gay

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatic Publishing Co,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#51544

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

n/a

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JEAN KERR

Poor Richard

1st Produced:

Helen Hayes Theatre, NY

1964

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Samuel French, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#19134

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male

3

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

a raffishly charming poet is in America to consult with his publisher and dedicate a memorial to his late wife when the publisher's secretary decides to marry him

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JEAN KERR

Song Of Bernadette, The

1st Produced:

Belasco Theatre, New York

1946

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatic Publishing Co,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#38798

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Genre:

Adaptation

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Written by Walter Kerr and Jean Kerr; Based on the novel by Franz Werfel

Synopsis:

n/a

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JEAN KERR

Touch And Go

1st Produced:

Broadhurst Theatre, New York

1949

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Brandt & Brandt, NY,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#38799

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Music by Jay Gorney; Sketches by Jean Kerr and Walter Kerr; Lyrics by Jean Kerr and Walter Kerr;

Synopsis:

n/a

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