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Jerome Cowan

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Actor 1897–1972 On stage 19231958

Jerome Palmer Cowan (October 6, 1897 – January 24, 1972) was an American stage, film, and television actor.

On stage 15 productions, 35 years

1923 We've Got to Have Money Playhouse Theatre · Original · directed by Bertram Harrison 56 perf.
1930 Frankie and Johnnie Theatre Republic · Original · directed by Lee Elmore 61 perf.
1931 Just to Remind You Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Melville Burke 16 perf.
1932 Rendezvous Broadhurst Theatre · Original 21 perf.
1932 The Little Black Book Selwyn Theatre · Original · directed by Karl Nielsen 8 perf.
1933 As Thousands Cheer Music Box · Original · directed by Hassard Short 400 perf.
1933 Both Your Houses Royale Theatre · Original · directed by Worthington Miner 72 perf.
1933 Marathon Mansfield Theatre · Original · directed by Clyde North 5 perf.
1934 Ladies' Money Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original 36 perf.
1935 Boy Meets Girl Cort Theatre · Original 669 perf.
1935 Paths of Glory Plymouth Theatre · Original 23 perf.
1953 My 3 Angels Morosco Theatre · Original · directed by José Ferrer 344 perf.
1954 Lunatics and Lovers Broadhurst Theatre · Original 336 perf.
1957 Rumple Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Jack Donohue 45 perf.
1958 Say, Darling ANTA Theatre · Original · directed by Abe Burrows 332 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

George W Smith 3 productions
Arthur Marlowe 3 productions
Tom Fadden 2 productions
Robert Strange 2 productions
Perry Ivins 2 productions
Milo Boulton 2 productions
Joyce Arling 2 productions
Jack Davis 2 productions
Henry Shelvey 2 productions
Garson Kanin 2 productions
Elliott Gould 2 productions
E J Ballantine 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.

In the literature8 passages

  • Act Two: “To Adjust Is a Must” (Jerome Cowan, Elliott Gould, Doris Lorenz, Pat White, Lila Popper, Gail Kuhr, William Milie); “Coax Me” (Gretchen Wyler); “How Do You Say Goodbye” (reprise) (Stephen Douglass); “All Dressed Up” (Gretchen Wyler, Ensemble); “In Times Like These” (reprise) (Gretchen Wyler, Jerome Cowan); “Peculiar State of Aff…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Cast: Marilyn Miller, Clifton Webb, Helen Broderick, Ethel Waters, Hal Forde, Jerome Cowan, Harry Stockwell, José Limon, Letitia Ide, Thomas Hamilton, Leslie Adamsebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • dozen things to make it easier on me." Character actors Walter Connolly and Jerome Cowan were also generous during the making of the picture, pointing out to Mary where she should stand when a light was supposed to be on her. "I didn't know anything," she said,theatre-pdfs/Mary Martin-Broadway Legend (Ronald L. Davis).txt
  • man, Susanna Foster, and Jerome Cowan. Rhythm on the River (1940), Paramount, directed by Victor Schertzinger, and also featuring Bing Crosby, Basil Rathbone, Oscar Levant,theatre-pdfs/Mary Martin-Broadway Legend (Ronald L. Davis).txt
  • Jerome Cowan (left) and AUyn Joslyn in Samuel and Bella Spewack's Boy Meets Girl. New York, Cort Theatre, 1935. [Photograph by Vandamm. Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt
  • As Thousands Cheer, with (1. to r.) Leslie Adams, Helen Broderick, Clifton Webb, Marilyn Miller, and Jerome Cowan. New York, Music Box Theatre, 1933. [Photograph by Vandamm. Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt

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