Shows · Leave It to Me! · Imperial Theatre, 1938
Leave It to Me!, 1938
Of the productions that opened in the 1930s, this had the 52nd longest run.
Who was in it70 named
April
Walter Armin
Monica Bannister
Vicki Belling
Dorothy Benson
Stanton Bier
Alexis Bolan
Evelyn Bonefine
Chet Bree
Charles Campbell
Dean Carlton
Mildred Chenaval
Don Cortez
Ruth Daye
J Colville Dunn
John Eliot
Michael J Forbes
Hans Hansen
Pearl Harris
Eddie Heisler
Beverly Hosier
Ivan Izmailov
Dorothea Jackson
Thomas Jafollo
Adele Jergens
Ruth Joseph
Joseph Kallini
Evelyn Kelly
Maurice Kelly
June le Roy
Nancy Lee
William Lilling
Walter Long
Peter Lopoukin
Walter Monroe
Evelyn Moser
Walter Munroe
Audrey Palmer
John Panter
Mary Ann Parker
Kay Picture
Barbara Pond
Roy Ross
Jean Scott
Veva Selwood
Jack Seymour
Lawrie Shevlin
Eugene Sigaloff
Zynaid Spencer
Jack Stanton
Frances Tannehill
Marie Vanneman
Marie Vaughan
Matthew Vodnoy
Mildred Fenton
Paul Bartels
Dorothy Compton
Joel Friend
Grace Gillen
Creative team
- Director
- Samuel Spewack
- Choreographer
- Robert Alton
- Producer
- Vinton Freedley
Around this production
Leave It to Me! is a 1938 musical produced by Vinton Freedley with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The book was a collaborative effort by Samuel and Bella Spewack, the former of whom also directed the Broadway production. The musical was based on the play Clear All Wires by the Spewacks, which was performed on Broadway for 93 performances in 1932, and which was filmed in 1933, starring Lee Tracy, Benita Hume, Una Merkel and James Gleason. It was set in Stalinist Russia in the 1930s, with Stalin himself appearing at the end. But its comic treatment of Soviets and Nazis seemed misplaced during the Cold War, and the show was not revived until the late 1980s. Mary Martin made her Broadway debut…
Mary Martin got the Porter treatment, along with William Gaxton, Victor Moore, and Sophie Tucker in Leave It to Me! (11/9/38; 291 performances). Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 438
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