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Genevieve Tobin

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Actor 1899–1995 On stage 19121929

Genevieve Tobin (November 29, 1901 – July 31, 1995) was an American actress.

On stage 12 productions, 17 years

1912 Disraeli Wallacks Theatre · Original 2 perf.
1918 Oh, Look! Vanderbilt Theatre · Original 68 perf.
1919 Palmy Days Playhouse Theatre · Original 50 perf.
1920 Little Old New York Plymouth Theatre · Original 308 perf.
1923 King Lear Earl Carroll Theatre · Revival 2 perf.
1923 Polly Preferred Little Theatre · Original · directed by Winchell Smith 184 perf.
1924 Dear Sir Times Square Theatre · Original · directed by David Burton 15 perf.
1924 The Youngest Gaiety Theatre · Original 104 perf.
1926 This Woman Business Ritz Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Rigby 47 perf.
1926 Treat 'em Rough Klaw Theatre · Original · directed by Allan Dinehart 24 perf.
1927 Murray Hill Bijou Theatre · Original 28 perf.
1929 Fifty Million Frenchmen Lyric Theatre · Original · directed by Monty Woolley 254 perf.

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Worked with more than once1 names

Frances Grant 2 productions

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In the literature7 passages

  • Cast: William Gaxton, Genevieve Tobin, Helen Broderick, Betty Compton, Evelyn Hoey, Jack Thompson, Thurston Hallebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Wealthy playboy Peter Forbes (Gaxton) bets his friend $25,000 that he can win the heart of visiting American beauty Looloo Carroll (Genevieve Tobin) without flaunting his fortune at her. He assumes the persona of a tour guide and discovers that her parents have promised her hand to a Russian grand duke. The plot chronicles Forbes's variou…ebooks/Viagas, Robert/I'm the Greatest Star_ Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today - Robert Viagas.txt
  • _ Irene Bordoni played in “Little Miss Bluebeard,” Nazimova in “Dagmar,” Genevieve Tobin in “Polly Preferred,” Pauline Frederick in “The Guilty One,” Laurette Taylor in “Humoresque,” and Ethel Barrymore in “The Laughing Lady.” Alice Brady appeared in “Zandertheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • Donahue and Lily Damita, “Fifty Million Frenchmen” with William Gaxton, Genevieve Tobin and Helen Broderick, andtheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • play based on a libretto by George S. Kaufman that lamWilliam Gaxton and Genevieve Tobin in Fifty Million Frenchmen. New York, Lyric Theatre, 1929. [Photograph by Vandamm. Theatre Collection, Thetheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • GENEVIEVE TOBIN, 93, NYC-born actress, died July 31, 1995 in Pasadena, CA. Bdwy included Little Old New York (1920), Dear Sir, Mur-theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1995-96 Season, v.52 (Willis).txt

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