The Desperate Hours, 1955

The run closed August 13, 1955

Opened

February 10, 1955

Closed

August 13, 1955

Performances

212

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 137th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it16 named

Nancy Coleman
Karl Malden
George Matthews
Wyrley Birch
Malcolm Brodrick
Kendall Clark
Fred Eisley
James Gregory
George Grizzard
Rusty Lane
Mary Orr
Patricia Peardon
Judson Pratt
Frank Overton
Gene Blakely

1 of these 16 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 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

Robert Montgomery

Producer

Howard Erskine

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