The Front Page, 1946

The run closed November 9, 1946

Opened

September 4, 1946

Closed

November 9, 1946

Performances

79

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 267th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Front Page 4 more that season

1928	Times Square Theatre Original · George S. Kaufman	276 perf.
1969	Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · Harold J. Kennedy	64 perf.
1986	Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Jerry Zaks	57 perf.
2016	Broadhurst Theatre Revival · Jack O'Brien	117 perf.

Who was in it22 named

Jack Arnold
Rolly Beck
Fred Bemis
Isabel Bonner
Roger Clark
Joe de Santis
Olive Deering
Harold Grau
Curtis Karpe
William Lynn
George Lyons
Blanche Lytell
Bruce Macfarlane
Vic Whitlock
Cora Witherspoon
Leonard Yorr

6 of these 22 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

Producer

Hunt Stromberg, Jr.

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