Billy Draws a Horse, 1939

The run closed December 31, 1939

Opened

December 21, 1939

Closed

December 31, 1939

Performances

13

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Playhouse Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 906th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it14 named

Hayley Bell
Edna Bennett
Carol Curtis Brown
Leo Bulgakov
William Chambers
Florence Edney
Jules Epailly
Grace George
Lumsden Hare
Elizabeth Inglis
Harry Plimmer
Marion Sittler
Douglas Walton

1 of these 14 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 13 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Harry Wagstaff Gribble

Producer

Lee Shubert

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for Billy Draws a Horse at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.