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Effie Afton

Shows · Effie Afton

ActorOn stage 19301956

On stage 10 productions, 26 years

1930 Ritzy Longacre Theatre · Original 32 perf.
1933 Sailor, Beware! Lyceum Theatre · Original · directed by Arthur Sircom 500 perf.
1935 Play, Genius, Play! St James Theatre · Original · directed by Jo Graham 5 perf.
1940 Beverly Hills Fulton Theatre · Original · directed by Otto Preminger 28 perf.
1940 My Sister Eileen Biltmore Theatre · Original · directed by George S. Kaufman 864 perf.
1944 Last Stop Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by Irwin Piscator 23 perf.
1945 Carousel Majestic Theatre · Original · directed by Rouben Mamoulian 890 perf.
1951 Courtin’ Time National Theatre · Original · directed by Alfred Drake 37 perf.
1953 A Red Rainbow Royale Theatre · Original 16 perf.
1956 Middle of the Night Anta Playhouse · Original 477 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 once6 names

Sidney Riggs 2 productions
Josephine Evans 2 productions
Joan Keenan 2 productions
Enid Markey 2 productions
Eda Heinemann 2 productions
Bruce Macfarlane 2 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. 6 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.

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  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
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