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Jose Ruben

Shows · Jose Ruben

DirectorActor 1890–1952 On stage 19111956

Jose Ruben (1890–1952) was a French-born actor and director long active on Broadway who directed the operetta The Cat and the Fiddle.

On stage 25 productions, 45 years

1911 The Garden of Allah Century Theatre · Original · directed by Hugh Ford 241 perf.
1916 Ghosts Comedy Theatre · Revival
1917 Madame Sand Criterion Theatre · Original 64 perf.
1917 The Life of Man Comedy Theatre · Original
1918 I. O. U. Belmont Theatre · Original 10 perf.
1918 Laurette Taylor in Scenes from Shakespeare Criterion Theatre · Revival
1919 The Dancer Harris Theatre · Original 61 perf.
1920 Sacred and Profane Love Morosco Theatre · Original · directed by B. Iden Payne 88 perf.
1920 The Checkerboard 39th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Clifford Brooke 29 perf.
1920 Thy Name is Woman Playhouse Theatre · Original 120 perf.
1921 Swords National Theatre · Original 36 perf.
1922 Gringo Comedy Theatre · Original 35 perf.
1924 Bewitched National Theatre · Original 29 perf.
1924 Leah Kleschna Lyric Theatre · Revival 32 perf.
1924 Mme. Simone Gaiety Theatre · Original
1925 Merchants of Glory Guild Theatre · Original 42 perf.
1926 Ghosts Comedy Theatre · Revival · directed by Dudley Digges 34 perf.
1926 The Two Orphans Cosmopolitan Theatre · Revival 32 perf.
1927 Jacob Slovak Greenwich Village Theatre · Original · directed by James Light 21 perf.
1928 The Red Robe Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Stanley Logan 167 perf.
1931 As You Desire Me Maxine Elliotts Theatre · Original · directed by Marcel Varnel 142 perf.
1931 The Cat And The Fiddle Globe Theatre · Revival · directed by José Ruben 395 perf.
1933 The Drums Begin Shubert Theatre · Original 11 perf.
1943 The Vagabond King Shubert Theatre · Revival · directed by George Ermoloff 56 perf.
1956 The Great Sebastians Anta Playhouse · Original · directed by Bretaigne Windust 174 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

Jos Ruben 6 productions
Mary Nash 3 productions
T W Gibson 2 productions
Lynn Fontanne 2 productions
Judith Anderson 2 productions
Jean Robb 2 productions
Helen Westley 2 productions
Frederick Perry 2 productions
Edward Mackay 2 productions
Edward Fielding 2 productions
Curtis Cooksey 2 productions
Arthur E Hohl 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. 12 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 literature4 passages

  • Direction : Jose Ruben; Producer : Franz Steininger; Choreography : Anthony Nelle; Scenery and Lighting : Furth Ullman; Costumes : Uncredited (see below); Musical Direction : Franz Steiningerebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • were Shelley Hull, Jose Ruben, O. P. Heggie and Lynn Fontanne. Robert B. Mantell appeared in Shakespearean repertory with Genevieve Hamper and Fritz Leiber in his company. Ruth Gordon and Gregory Kelly were in “Seventeen,” Billie Burke and Henry Miller in “A Marriage of Convenience,” Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew in “Keep Her Smiling,” and She…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • JOSE RUBEN, FAY BAINTER, HENRIETTA CROSMAN, WILTON LACKAYE, MARY NASH, ROBERT LORAINE, HENRY E. DIXEY in ‘THE TWO ORPHANS”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • Apvisory COUNCIL Elsie Ferguson Frank Craven Margaret Anglin Brock Pemberton > Ernest Truex Wm. Lyon Phelps Jose Rubentheatre-pdfs/sim_theatre-arts_1922-01_6_1.txt

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