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Half a Widow, 1927

Shows · Half a Widow · Waldorf Theatre, 1927

Original BroadwayWaldorf Theatre 16 performances

The run closed September 24, 1927

Opened
September 12, 1927
Closed
September 24, 1927
Performances
16
Previews
Unknown

Of the 2,149 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and carry a performance count, this is the 1,580th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it77 named

Maud Allyn
Harry Ardatoff
Margot Bazin
George Bratis
Louise Brooks
Bunny Brown
Blanche Bryer
Andrew Burjoyne
Ruth Burr
Joan Carter Waddell
Albert Carties
Lew Christy
Gordon Clark
Robert C Cloy
Cochran Twins
Maria Convere
Alfred Cortez
Elizabeth Crandall
Daniel da Silva
Fainille Davies
Harry Donaghy
Paul Doucet
William Dunn
Rose Fleming
Albert Froome
Carolyn Gerken
Pauline Grayce
Beryl Halley
Frances Halliday
Hilda Hollis
Jessie James
Henry Jockin
Al Josephs
Cyril Joyce
Benno Juerling
Zachary Karr
Julie Kelety
John Krivokosenke
Gertrude Lang
Ben Lewis
Dorothy Lyons
Shirley Lyons
Leon Mandas
Vivian Martin
Harry Miller
Abraham Mitchell
Bernard Mitchell
Alan Moray
Lewis Newman
Arthur Nulens
Miriam Phillips
Bernice Plante
Gregory Pravduk
Genay Ramsey
Ilys Ravel
George Rogers
Charles Salton
Ava Sand
Ralph D Sanford
George Sawyer
Marshall Scott
Verna Scott
Bernadette Spencer
Norman Stengel
Benjamin Tilberg
Walter Timoff
Beatrix Tinsley
Serge Vinogradoff
Efin Vitis
Roman von Sternberg Elsky
Gertrude Waldon
Wantayo
Edgar Welch
Geraldine Wells
June Wells
Halfred Young
Peter Zengel

0 of these 77 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 77 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
Lawrence Marston
Choreographer
Lawrence Marston
Producer
Wally Gluck

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 Half a Widow at all.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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