The American Way, 1939

The run closed September 23, 1939

Opened

July 17, 1939

Closed

September 23, 1939

Performances

80

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Center Theatre

Of the 1,389 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and carry a performance count, this is the 320th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it62 named

Jack Arnold
Bobby Barron
Walter Beck
Mary Brandon
Buddy Buehler
Eileen Burns
Hugh Cameron
Gerry Carr
Teddy Casey
Norma Clerc
Alex Courtney
Robert Cushman
Gretchen Davidson
Katherine Duncan
Marian Edwards
Florence Eldridge
Edward Elliott
Elsa Ersi
Gilbert Fates
Janet Fox
Brant Gorman
Sydney Grant
George Herndon
Claire Howard
Bradford Hunt
Buddy Irving
Walter Kelly
Tommy Lewis
Richard Lloyd
Virginia Lodge
John Long
John Lorenz
Lorna Lynn
James Macdonald
Fredric March
Adrienne Marden
James Moore
Mona Moray
Mckay Morris
Mary Murray
Le Roi Operti
Elinor Pittis
Janet Regan
Robert Rhodes
James Russo
Stephen Sandes
Dora Sayers
Jeanne Shelby
Sidney Stone
Ward Tallman
Jerome Thor
Grace Valentine
Dick van Patten
Jeanne Wardley
Maurice Wells
Ruth Weston
Bob White
Barbara Wooddell

4 of these 62 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 58 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

Producer

Sam H. Harris

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 The American Way at all.
• No director named.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.