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Elsie Janis

Shows · Elsie Janis

ActorOn stage 19061939

On stage 8 productions, 33 years

1906 The Vanderbilt Cup Broadway Theatre · Original · directed by Hugh Ford 143 perf.
1907 The Hoyden Knickerbocker Theatre · Original · directed by Ben Teal 66 perf.
1907 The Vanderbilt Cup New York Theatre · Return-Engagement · directed by Hugh Ford 48 perf.
1909 The Fair Co-ed Knickerbocker Theatre · Original · directed by Fred G. Latham 136 perf.
1911 The Slim Princess Globe Theatre · Original · directed by Austin Hurgon 104 perf.
1912 The Lady of the Slipper Globe Theatre · Original · directed by R.H. Burnside 232 perf.
1916 The Century Girl Century Theatre · Original · directed by Leon Errol, Edward Royce 200 perf.
1939 Frank Fay Vaudeville 44th Street Theatre · Original 60 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

Leila Benton 3 productions
E W Bosher 3 productions
Arthur Stanford 3 productions
Queenie Vassar 2 productions
Percy Janis 2 productions
May Fields 2 productions
Lionel Walsh 2 productions
Lillian Nicholson 2 productions
Kate Mayhew 2 productions
Jane Bliss 2 productions
James Reaney 2 productions
Jacques Kruger 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. 11 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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