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Frances Upton

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Actor 1904–1975 On stage 19221933

Frances Upton (April 15, 1904 – November 27, 1975) was an American Broadway theatre actress and comedian.

On stage 9 productions, 11 years

1922 Pins And Needles Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Julian Mitchell 46 perf.
1923 Little Jessie James Longacre Theatre · Original · directed by Walter Brooks 385 perf.
1924 My Girl Vanderbilt Theatre · Original · directed by Walter Brooks 291 perf.
1926 Twinkle, Twinkle Liberty Theatre · Original · directed by Frank Craven 167 perf.
1927 Lady Do Liberty Theatre · Original · directed by Edgar J. MacGregor 56 perf.
1927 Talk About Girls Waldorf Theatre · Original · directed by John Harwood 15 perf.
1927 Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Sammy Lee 167 perf.
1928 Whoopee New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by William Anthony McGuire 379 perf.
1933 Hold Your Horses Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by R.H. Burnside 88 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

Jane Taylor 3 productions
Spencer Charters 2 productions
Ruth Etting 2 productions
Russell Mack 2 productions
Roger Gray 2 productions
Ona Munson 2 productions
Myrna Darby 2 productions
Meredith Howard 2 productions
Marie Marceline 2 productions
Madeline Janis 2 productions
Lucila Mendez 2 productions
Liane Mamet 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. 10 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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