Ladies and Gentlemen, 1939

The run closed January 13, 1940

Opened

October 17, 1939

Closed

January 13, 1940

Performances

105

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 260th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it18 named

Harry Antrim
Frank Conlan
Connie Gilchrist
Helen Hayes
Robert Keith
William Lynn
Donald Mackenzie
Philip Merivale
Guy Moneypenny
Jacqueline Paige
Roy Roberts
James Seeley
Joseph Sweeney
Evelyn Varden
George Watson
Edna West

2 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 16 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

Lewis Allen

Producer

Gilbert Miller

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