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Bertha Belmore

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Actor 1882–1953 On stage 19231951

Bertha Belmore (22 December 1882 – 14 December 1953) was an English stage and film actress. Part of the Belmore family of British actors through her marriage to actor Herbert Belmore, she began her career as a child actress in British pantomimes and music hall variety acts. As a young adult she was one of the Belmore Sisters in variety entertainment before beginning a more serious acting career performing in classic plays by William Shakespeare with Ben Greet's Pastoral Players in a 1911 tour of the United States. She made her Broadway debut as Portia in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in 1912. She returned to Broadway numerous times in mainly comedic character roles over the next 40 years, nota…

On stage 16 productions, 28 years

1923 The Sporting Thing To Do Ritz Theatre · Original · directed by Clifford Brooke 40 perf.
1924 Grounds for Divorce Empire Theatre · Original 127 perf.
1925 Ziegfeld Follies of 1925 New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Julian Mitchell 88 perf.
1929 The Whispering Gallery Forrest Theatre · Original 79 perf.
1932 Show Boat Casino Theatre · Revival 180 perf.
1932 The Warrior's Husband Morosco Theatre · Revival · directed by Burk Symon 83 perf.
1937 Virginia Center Theatre · Original · directed by Leon Leonidoff 60 perf.
1940 Johnny Belinda Belasco Theatre · Original 321 perf.
1942 By Jupiter Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Joshua Logan 427 perf.
1942 Heart of a City Henry Millers Theatre · Original 28 perf.
1943 The Naked Genius Plymouth Theatre · Original · directed by George S. Kaufman 36 perf.
1944 Rhapsody New Century Theatre · Original · directed by David Lichine 14 perf.
1946 Antigone Cort Theatre · Original · directed by Guthrie McClintic 64 perf.
1949 Caesar and Cleopatra National Theatre · Revival · directed by Cedric Hardwicke 151 perf.
1949 The Browning Version / Harlequinade Coronet Theatre · Original · directed by Peter Glenville 69 perf.
1951 Gigi Fulton Theatre · Original · directed by Raymond Rouleau 219 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

Ronald Graham 2 productions
Romney Brent 2 productions
Robert Raines 2 productions
Ray Giles 2 productions
Patricia Bowman 2 productions
Maude Simmons 2 productions
Louis Hector 2 productions
James Lillard 2 productions
Henry Davis 2 productions
H. Reeves-Smith 2 productions
Dennis Hoey 2 productions
Charlotte Junius 2 productions

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Also credited on1 work

Ziegfeld Follies

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In the literature3 passages

  • Cast: Ray Bolger, Constance Moore, Benay Venuta, Ronald Graham, Bertha Belmore, Ralph Dumke, Vera Ellen, Margaret Bannermanebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • “By Jupiter” was the most popular musical comedy of the year, and the leading roles were played by Ray Bolger, Constance Moore, Ronald Graham and Bertha Belmore. “Rosalinda,”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • MICHAEL EVANS JOSEPHINE BROWN, AUDREY HEPBURN, DORIS PATSTON, BERTHA BELMORE inn “GIGI”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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