- (1944 - 1946) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1944) Stage Play: Jacobowsky and the Colonel. Comedy. Written by S.N. Behrman. Based on an original play by Franz Werfel. Incidental music by Paul Bowles. Assistant Stage Mgr: Bettina Cerf. General Stage Manager: Coby Ruskin. Directed by Elia Kazan. Martin Beck Theatre: 14 Mar 1944- 10 Mar 1945 (417 performances). Cast: Annabella (as "Marianne") [Broadway debut], Louis Calhern (as "Colonel Tadeusz Boleslav Stjerbinsky"), Oskar Karlweis (as "S.L. Jacobowsky"), Harold Vermilyea (as "Gestapo Official"), J. Edward Bromberg (as "Szabuniewicz"), Donald Cameron (as "Monsieur Serouille/Senator Brisson"), Philip Collier (as "Air Raid Warden"), Philip Coolidge (as "The Dice Player"), Harry Davis (as "Soloman/Papa Clarion"), Louise Dowdney (as "A Young Girl"), Joseph Kallini (as "Street Singer"), Peter Kass (as "Szycke"), Edward Kreisler (as "Sergeant De Ville/Second French Soldier") [Broadway debut], Don Lee (as "Wilhelm/First German Soldier"), Jules Leni (as "Child"), Jane Marbury (as "Old Lady from Arras"), E.G. Marshall (as "Brigadier"), Kitty Mattern (as "Cosette"), Bob Merritt (as "Max/Second German Soldier"), Frank Overton (as "First Lieutenant"), Coby Ruskin (as "A Chauffeur"), William Sanders (as "The Commissaire"), Burton Tripp (as "Gendarme/First French Soldier"), Hilda Vaughn (as "Madame Bouffier"), Harrison Winter (as "Sleeping Shopkeeper"), Barry O'Moore (as "The Tragic Gentleman"). Replacement actors: Donald Arbury (as "Monsieur Serouille/Senator Brisson"), Oliver Cliff (as "The Dice Player"), Loney Lewis (as "Szabuniewicz"), Herbert Ratner (as "Air Raid Warden/Max/Second German Soldier"), Gwilym Williams (as "Street Singer"). Produced by The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors). Produced in association with Jack H. Skirball. Note: Filmed as Me and the Colonel (1958).
- (1945) Stage Play: You Can't Take It With You. Comedy/farce (revival). Written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Directed by Frank McCoy. City Center: 26 Mar 1945- 7 Apr 1945 (17 performances). Cast: Daisy Atherton (as "Penelope Sycamore"), Charles Benjamin (as "Donald"), Emma Bunting (as "Gay Wellington"), John Clubley (as "Mr. Kirby"), Charles Collins (as "Boris Kolenkhov"), Lance Cunard (as "Ed Carmichael"), Charles Foley (as "G-Man"), Ulla Kazanova (as "Olga"), Donald Keyes (as "Mr. DePinna"), Edward Kreisler (as "Wilbur C. Henderson"), Richard Maloy (as "Tony Kirby"), Lucille Marsh (as "Alice Sycamore"), George McLain (as "G-Man"), Eulabelle Moore (as "Rheba"), Spencer Sawyer (as "G-Man"), Dorothy Scott (as "Mrs. Kirby"), John Souther (as "Paul Sycamore"), Dorothy Stone (as "Essie"), Fred Stone (as "Martin Vanderhof/Grandpa") [final Broadway role]. Produced by Frank McCoy. Note: Was previously filmed by Columbia Pictures as You Can't Take It with You (1938).
- (1946) Stage Play: Walk Hard. Drama. Book adapted by Abram Hill. Adapted from the novel "Walk Hard-Talk Aloud" by Ed Lacy [credited as Len Zinberg]. Directed by Gustav Blum and Gilbert Weiss. Chanin Auditorium: 27 Mar 1946- 31 Mar 1946 (7 performances). Cast: Jacqueline Andre (as "Becky"), Howard Augusta (as "Happy") [Broadway debut], Dorothy Carter (as "Ruth Lawson"), Fred Carter (as "Mr. Berry"), Stephen Elliott (as "Mickey"), Maxwell Glanville (as "Andy Whitman") [Broadway debut], John Hewitt (as "Bartender"), Leslie Julian Jones (as "George, the Bellhop"), Joseph Kamm (as "Lou Foster"), Richard Kraft (as "Bobby/Hotel Clerk/Announcer"), Edward Kreisler (as "Reporter") [final Broadway role], Maurice Lisby (as "Charlie"), Jean Normandy (as "Sadie"), Fiona O'Shiel (as "Lady Friend"), Miriam Pullen (as "Dorothy"), Mickey Walker (as "Larry Batcheller"), Lulu Mae Ward (as "Susie"), Leonard Yorr (as "Mack Jeffris"). Produced by Gustav Blum.
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