- Child of Manhattan (play)
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Child of Manhattan Written by Preston Sturges Characters Madeleine McGonegal
Otto Paul Vanderkill
Panama C. Kelly
othersDate premiered 1 May 1932 Place premiered Fulton Theatre (Broadway)
New York City, United StatesOriginal language English Genre Romantic comedy Setting Loveland Dance Hall, Madeleine's home, and a Penthouse IBDB profile Child of Manhattan is a play by Preston Sturges, his fifth to be produced on Broadway and his last for almost twenty years as his career took him to Hollywood.[1] It was adapted into a film of the same name, released in 1933 by Columbia Pictures, the second play of Sturges' to make it to the silver screen, after 1929's Strictly Dishonorable.
Broadway production
The Broadway production opened at the Fulton Theatre on 1 March 1932 and logged 87 performances, closing in May of that year.[2] It was produced by Peggy Fears and directed by Howard Lindsay.
The opening night cast included:
- John Altieri as John Tarantino
- Franz Bendtsen as Lucinda, Limited
- Alexander Campbell as Doctor Charley
- Douglass Dumbrille as Panama C. Kelly
- Dorothy Hall as Madeleine McGonegal
- Jackson Halliday as Buddy McGonegal
- Maude Odell as Mrs. McGonegal
- Reginald Owen as Otto Paul Vanderkill
- Jessie Ralph as Aunt Minnie
- Joseph H. Roeder as Eggleston
- Harriet Russell as Luthy McGonegal
- Ralph Sanford as Spyrene
- Helen Strickland as Miss Sophie Vanderkill
- Elizabeth Young as Adelaide Vanderkill
Notes
External links
- Child of Manhattan at the Internet Broadway Database
- Preston Sturges at the Internet Broadway Database
- Child of Manhattan (film) at the Internet Movie Database
- Child of Manhattan (film) at the TCM Movie Database
- Child of Manhattan (film) at AllRovi
Preston Sturges Broadway The Guinea Pig (writer & prod,1929) · Strictly Dishonorable (writer,1929) · Recapture (writer,1930) · The Well of Romance (musical:book & lyrics,1930) · Child of Manhattan (writer,1932)
1930s The Big Pond (dialogue,1930) · La grande mare (dialogue,1930) · Fast and Loose (add'l dialogue,1930) · Strictly Dishonorable (prev. play,1931) · They Just Had to Get Married (uncredited,1932) · Child of Manhattan (prev. play,1933) · The Power and the Glory (writer & dialogue dir,1933) · The Invisible Man (uncredited writer,1933) · Twentieth Century (uncredited,1934) · Thirty-Day Princess (writer,1934) · We Live Again (adapter,1934) · Imitation of Life (uncredited writer,1934) · The Good Fairy (writer,1935) · Diamond Jim (writer,1935) · Next Time We Love (uncredited,1936) · Love Before Breakfast (uncredited,1936) · One Rainy Afternoon (lyrics,1936) · Hotel Haywire (writer,1937) · Easy Living (writer,1937) · College Swing (uncredited writer,1938) · Port of Seven Seas (writer,1938) · If I Were King (writer,1938) · Never Say Die (writer,1939)
1940s Remember the Night (writer,1940) · Broadway Melody of 1940 (uncredited,1940) · The Great McGinty (writer & dir,1940) · Christmas in July (writer & dir,1940) · The Lady Eve (writer & dir,1941) · New York Town (uncredited,1941) · Sullivan's Travels (writer, dir & prod,1941) · Safeguarding Military Information (writer,1942) · I Married a Witch (unc. prod,1942) · The Palm Beach Story (writer & dir,1942) · Star Spangled Rhythm (actor,1942) · The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (writer, dir, prod, lyrics,1944) · Hail the Conquering Hero (writer, dir, prod, music, lyrics,1944) · The Great Moment (writer, dir & unc. prod,1944) · I'll Be Yours (writer,1947) · The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (writer, dir & unc. prod,1947) · Unfaithfully Yours (writer, dir & prod,1948) · The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (writer, dir & prod,1949)
1950s Vendetta (unc. writer & unc. dir,1950) · Strictly Dishonorable (prev. play,1951) · The French, They Are a Funny Race (writer & dir,1955) · The Birds and the Bees (prev. screenplay,1956) · Paris Holiday (actor,1958) · Rock-A-Bye Baby (prev. screenplay,1958)
Broadway &
posthumousMake a Wish (musical:book,1951) · Carnival in Flanders (musical:book & dir.,1953) · Unfaithfully Yours (prev. screenplay,1984)
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