Life Begins at 8:40, 1934

The run closed March 16, 1935

Opened

August 27, 1934

Closed

March 16, 1935

Performances

237

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Winter Garden Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 83rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it73 named

Eugene Ashley
Jack Barrett
Mary Bay
Regina Beck
Vicki Belling
Helen Bennett
Hazel Boffinger
Edward Browne
Sally Bynum
Mary Ann Carr
Noreen Carr
Jean Carson
Charles Weidman Dancers
Geri Chopin
Frances Comstock
Aida Conkey
Hope Dare
Maxine Darrell
Aline Davis
Tom Draper
Dixie Dunbar
Helene Ecklund
William Ehlers
Marjorie Ezequelle
Charles Fowler
Darley Fuller
Peggy Gallimore
Williem Gerard
Willem Gerrard
Sally Gibbs
Ilse Gronau
Kai Hansen
Pearl Harris
Winifred Harris
Josephine Houston
Mary Howard
Josephine Huston
Julie Jenner
Esther Junger
Jane Lane
Michael Logan
Arthur Manning
Adrienne Matzenauer
Ethel Medsker
Jane Moxon
Ofelia Pimento
Emmett Oldfield
Jessica Pepper
Gloria Pierre
Sid Salzer
Betty Schlaffer
Josephine Schwarz
Bartlett Simmons
Grena Sloan
Jack Starr
Donald Stewart
Sherry Stuart
Anya Taranda
Peggy Thomas
Ethel Thorsen
Walter Wahl
Mildred Webb
Eddie Wells
Grover Whalen
Robert Wildhack

8 of these 73 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 65 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

John Murray Anderson

Choreographer

John Murray Anderson

Producer

Messrs. Shubert (Lee and J. J.)

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 Life Begins at 8:40 at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.