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Ezra Stone

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DirectorActor 1917–1994 On stage 1931–1949

Ezra Stone (born Ezra Chaim Feinstone; December 2, 1917 – March 3, 1994) was an American actor and director who had a long career on the stage, in films, radio, and television, mostly as a director. His most notable role as an actor was that of the awkwardly mischievous teenager Henry Aldrich in the radio comedy hit The Aldrich Family for most of its fourteen-year run.

On stage 8 productions, 18 years

1931 Tom Sawyer Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Katherine Brown 6 perf.
1935 Parade Guild Theatre · Original · directed by Philip Loeb 40 perf.
1936 Brother Rat Biltmore Theatre · Original 577 perf.
1936 O Evening Star Empire Theatre · Original · directed by Leontine Sagan 5 perf.
1940 Horse Fever Mansfield Theatre · Original · directed by Milton Stiefel 25 perf.
1942 This Is the Army Broadway Theatre · Original · directed by Ezra Stone 113 perf.
1948 The Alchemist City Center · Revival · directed by Morton Da Costa 14 perf.
1949 She Stoops to Conquer City Center · Revival · directed by Morton Da Costa 16 perf.

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Worked with more than once7 names

Robinson Stone 2 productions
Norman van Emburgh 2 productions
Jose Ferrer 2 productions
Jos Ferrer 2 productions
Eddie Albert 2 productions
Earl Oxford 2 productions
Burl Ives 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. 3 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

  • This Is the Army. Ezra Stone, Julie Oshins, and Philip Truex singing “The Army’s Made a Man Out of Me.” (Vandamm)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Ezra Stone, Burl Ives, Gary Merrill, Julie Oshins, Robert Sidney, Alan Manson, Earl Oxford, Nelson Barclift, Stuart Churchill, Philip Truex, Irving Berlinebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • 25 . Ezra Stone, Letter to the Editor, Journal of American History 74, no. 1 (June 1987): 252.ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
  • SEE MY LAWYER (Sept. 27) farcical doings in a lawyer's office, flying the Abbott insignia. Ezra Stone directs and acts in a cast enlivened by Teddy Hart, Milton Berle, Eddie Nugent. SKYLARK (Oct. 11) Gertrude Lawrence flashes brilliantly through a mediocre parlor comedy by Samson Raphaelson. THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (Oct. 16) Kaufman an…theatre-pdfs/sim_theatre-arts_1940-03_24_3.txt
  • of her inability to get away at the starting post. Ezra Stone played the boy in his usual Alex Yokel and onetheatre-pdfs/sim_theatre-arts_1941-01_25_1.txt

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