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Art Smith

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Actor 1899–1973 On stage 19291960

Arthur Gordon Smith (March 23, 1899 – February 24, 1973) was an American stage, film, and television actor, best known for playing supporting roles in Hollywood productions of the 1940s.

On stage 28 productions, 31 years

1929 Broken Dishes Ritz Theatre · Original 178 perf.
1931 1931- Mansfield Theatre · Original · directed by Lee Strasberg 12 perf.
1931 The House of Connelly Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by Lee Strasberg 91 perf.
1932 Night Over Taos 48th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Lee Strasberg 13 perf.
1932 Success Story Maxine Elliotts Theatre · Original · directed by Lee Strasberg 121 perf.
1933 Men in White Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Lee Strasberg 351 perf.
1934 Gold Eagle Guy Morosco Theatre · Original · directed by Lee Strasberg 65 perf.
1935 Awake and Sing! Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Clurman 184 perf.
1935 Waiting For Lefty Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Sanford Meisner 24 perf.
1935 Weep for the Virgins 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Cheryl Crawford 9 perf.
1936 Johnny Johnson 44th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Lee Strasberg 68 perf.
1937 Golden Boy Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Clurman 250 perf.
1938 Rocket to the Moon Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Clurman 131 perf.
1939 Thunder Rock Mansfield Theatre · Original · directed by Elia Kazan 23 perf.
1940 Heavenly Express National Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Lewis 20 perf.
1940 Night Music Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Clurman 20 perf.
1940 Retreat to Pleasure Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Clurman 23 perf.
1941 Clash by Night Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Lee Strasberg 49 perf.
1941 Tanyard Street Little Theatre · Original · directed by Arthur Shields 23 perf.
1942 The Strings, My Lord, Are False Royale Theatre · Original · directed by Elia Kazan 15 perf.
1945 The Next Half Hour Empire Theatre · Original · directed by George S. Kaufman 8 perf.
1950 An Enemy of the People Broadhurst Theatre · Revival · directed by Robert Lewis 36 perf.
1952 Anna Christie Lyceum Theatre · Revival · directed by Michael Gordon 8 perf.
1952 Golden Boy Anta Playhouse · Revival 55 perf.
1954 Home Is the Hero Booth Theatre · Original 30 perf.
1957 West Side Story Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by Jerome Robbins 732 perf.
1958 A Touch of the Poet Helen Hayes Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Clurman 284 perf.
1960 All the Way Home Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Arthur Penn 333 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

Ruth Nelson 13 productions
Morris Carnovsky 13 productions
Luther Adler 10 productions
William Challee 9 productions
Phoebe Brand 9 productions
Sanford Meisner 8 productions
Roman Bohnen 8 productions
Walter Coy 7 productions
Paula Miller 7 productions
Eunice Stoddard 7 productions
Dorothy Patten 7 productions
Stella Adler 6 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 9 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

In the literature5 passages

  • Cast: Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert, Chita Rivera, Art Smith, Mickey Calin, Ken LeRoy, Lee Becker Theodore, David Winter, Tony Mordente, Eddie Roll, Martin Charninebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • staged by Harold Clurman, settings by Mordecai GoreUk. right: Tokio, Art Smith; Lorna Moon, Frances Farmer; Tom Moody, Roman Bohnen; Joe Bonaparte, Luther Adler. Photograph Alfredo Valente, Life, Januarytheatre-pdfs/A Treasury of the Theatre, v. 2.txt
  • II, scene iv from the Theatre production of Golden Boy. Tokio, Art Smith; Joe Bonaparte, Luther Adler.theatre-pdfs/A Treasury of the Theatre, v. 2.txt
  • ART SMITH, 73, stage, film and tv actor, died of a heart attack on Feb. 24, 1973 in a Westtheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).txt
  • AWAKE AND SING! (Feb, IQ—..) Cliff Odets. Producer: Group Theatr With ordLuth er Adler, Morris Carnovshy a Garfield, Art Smith and J, E, Bron. erg.theatre-pdfs/sim_theatre-arts_1935-04_19_4.txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

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  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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