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Irene Delroy

Shows · Irene Delroy

Actor 1900–1985 On stage 19201929

Josephine Lucille Sanders (July 21, 1900 – June 14, 1985), known by her stage name Irene Delroy, was an American stage actress.

On stage 9 productions, 9 years

1920 Frivolities of 1920 44th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Edward P. Bower 61 perf.
1923 The Greenwich Village Follies [1923] Winter Garden Theatre · Original 140 perf.
1924 Round the Town Century Promenade · Original 15 perf.
1924 Vogues of 1924 Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Frank Smithson 114 perf.
1925 The Greenwich Village Follies [1925] Chanins 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Hassard Short 180 perf.
1927 Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Sammy Lee 167 perf.
1928 Here's Howe Broadhurst Theatre · Original 71 perf.
1929 Follow Thru Chanins 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Edgar MacGregor 401 perf.
1929 Top Speed Chanins 46th Street Theatre · Original · directed by John Harwood 104 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

Tom Nip 2 productions
Tom Howard 2 productions
Polly Luce 2 productions
Peggy Chamberlin 2 productions
Madeline Janis 2 productions
Kendall Northrop 2 productions
Joe Lyons 2 productions
Jack Stevens 2 productions
Jack Haley 2 productions
Florence Ward 2 productions
Edith Hayward 2 productions
Cora Stephens 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. 9 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.

Also credited on2 works

Girl Crazy
New Faces Of 1952

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature2 passages

  • Cast: Jack Haley, Zelma O’Neal, Irene Delroy, Eleanor Powell, Madeline Cameron, John Barkerebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Libby Holman, “Follow Thru” with Irene Delroy, Zelma O’Neal and Jack Barker, “Sweet Adeline” with Helen Morgan, Irene Franklin, Charles Butterworth and Violet Carlson, “Sons O’ Guns” with Jacktheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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