Theatre Register

Joseph Santley

Shows · Joseph Santley

Actor 1889–1971 On stage 19101932

Joseph Mansfield Santley (born Joseph Ishmael Mansfield; January 10, 1890 – August 8, 1971) was an American actor, singer, dancer, writer, director, and producer of musical theatrical plays motion pictures and television shows. He adopted the stage name of his stepfather, actor Eugene Santley.

On stage 17 productions, 22 years

1910 A Matinee Idol Dalys Theatre · Original 76 perf.
1910 Judy Forgot Broadway Theatre · Original · directed by Lewis Morton 44 perf.
1911 The Never Homes Broadway Theatre · Original · directed by J. C. Huffman 92 perf.
1912 The Woman Haters Astor Theatre · Original · directed by George Marion 32 perf.
1913 All Aboard 44th Street Roof Theatre · Original · directed by Mark Swan 108 perf.
1915 Stop! Look! Listen! Theatre not recorded · Original · directed by R. H. Burnside 105 perf.
1916 A Pair of Queens Longacre Theatre · Original 15 perf.
1916 Betty Globe Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Royce 63 perf.
1918 Oh, My Dear! Princess Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Milton 189 perf.
1919 She’s A Good Fellow Globe Theatre · Original · directed by Fred G. Latham, Edward Royce 120 perf.
1920 The Half Moon Liberty Theatre · Original · directed by Fred G. Latham 48 perf.
1921 Music Box Revue [1921] Music Box Theatre · Original · directed by Hassard Short 440 perf.
1921 Music Box Revue Music Box Theatre · Original · directed by Hassard Short 440 perf.
1923 Music Box Revue [1923] Music Box Theatre · Original · directed by Hassard Short 273 perf.
1926 The Wild Rose Martin Beck Theatre · Revival · directed by William J. Wilson 61 perf.
1927 Lucky New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Hassard Short 71 perf.
1932 Heigh-Ho, Everybody Fulton Theatre · Original 5 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

Ivy Sawyer 8 productions
Hugh Cameron 3 productions
Florence Moore 3 productions
Bessie Cottrell 3 productions
William Collier 2 productions
Wilda Bennett 2 productions
The Brox Sisters 2 productions
Sam Bernard 2 productions
Phyllis Munday 2 productions
Pauline Hall 2 productions
Paul Frawley 2 productions
Olin Howland 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. 5 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 literature7 passages

  • A key figure in the “Dining Out” scene was Joseph Santley, a romantic leading man with matinee-idol looks (which we know not just from photographs but from the fact that he had starred in a 1910 musical comedy called The Matinee Idol ). Berlin knew him from his leading role in Stop! Look! Listen! as Van Cortland Parke, the benefactor and…ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
  • Eva Davenport; “The Never Homes” with George W. Monroe, Joseph Santley and Helen Hayes; Fritzi Scheff in “The Duchess;” “Gypsy Love” with Marguerite Sylva; Kitty Gordon in “The Enchantress;’”Raymond Hitchcock in “The Red Widow;” “Little Boy Blue” with Gertrude Bryan, Otis Harlan and Maude Odell; Grace LaRue in “Betsy;” and “The Wedding Tr…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • Parker; “Ziegfeld Follies of 1913” with Bessie Clayton, Charles King, John Charles Thomas, Charlotte Greenwood, Mollie King and May Boley; Joseph Santley in “When Dreams Come True;” Richard Carle and Hattie Williams in “The Doll Girl;” Bessie Abbott in “Rob Roy;” “Her Little Highness” with Mitzi Hajos; “The Pleasure Seekers” with Florence…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • and Leila Hughes in “A Modern Eve,” Joseph Santley in “All Over Town,” Eleanor Painter with Sam Hardy in “The Princesstheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • “Flora Bella,” Raymond Hitchcock in “Betty” with Joseph Santley and Ivy Sawyer, Charlotte Greenwood in “So Long, Letty,” and “Follow Me” proved to be the final starring vehicle for Anna Held. “Ziegfeld Follies of 1916” boasted a cast including Ina Claire, W. C. Fields, Fannie Brice, Bert Williams, Ann Pennington, Bernard Granville, France…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • MOORE, JOHN STEEL, IVY SAWYER, JOSEPH SANTLEY, GRACE MOORE, singing ‘‘YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS” in “MUSIC BOX REVUE”theatre-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.

Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.