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Vera Allen

Shows · Vera Allen

Actor 1897–1987 On stage 19251953

On stage 25 productions, 28 years

1925 Grand Street Follies [1925] Neighborhood Playhouse · Original 148 perf.
1925 The Critic Neighborhood Playhouse · Revival · directed by Agnes Morgan 17 perf.
1925 The Dybbuk Neighborhood Playhouse · Original · directed by David Vardi 120 perf.
1926 Grand Street Follies [1926] Neighborhood Playhouse · Original · directed by Blanche Talmud 55 perf.
1926 Slaves All Bijou Theatre · Original · directed by Lumsden Hare 8 perf.
1926 The Romantic Young Lady Neighborhood Playhouse · Original · directed by Agnes Morgan 25 perf.
1927 Sinner Klaw Theatre · Original · directed by Alan Dinehart 128 perf.
1928 Elmer Gantry Playhouse Theatre · Original · directed by Lumsden Hare 48 perf.
1928 Grand Street Follies [1928] Booth Theatre · Original 144 perf.
1930 Hamlet Shubert Theatre · Revival · directed by Fritz Leiber
1930 Macbeth Shubert Theatre · Revival · directed by Fritz Leiber
1931 Lean Harvest Forrest Theatre · Original · directed by Leslie Banks 31 perf.
1932 Money in the Air Ritz Theatre · Original · directed by Arthur Sircom 48 perf.
1933 I Was Waiting for You Booth Theatre · Original · directed by Arthur J. Beckhard 8 perf.
1933 Strange Gods Ritz Theatre · Original · directed by Priestly Morrison 9 perf.
1935 At Home Abroad Winter Garden · Original · directed by Vincente Minnelli, Thomas Mitchell 198 perf.
1936 The Show Is On Winter Garden · Original · directed by Vincente Minnelli, Edward Clark Lilley 237 perf.
1937 Susan and God Plymouth Theatre · Original 288 perf.
1938 Glorious Morning Mansfield Theatre · Original 9 perf.
1939 The Philadelphia Story Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Robert B. Sinclair 417 perf.
1940 The Burning Deck Maxine Elliotts Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Milton 3 perf.
1943 The Moon Vine Morosco Theatre · Original · directed by John Cromwell 20 perf.
1943 The Two Mrs. Carrolls Booth Theatre · Original · directed by Reginald Denham 585 perf.
1945 Strange Fruit Royale Theatre · Original 60 perf.
1953 The Ladies of the Corridor Longacre Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Clurman 45 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

Paula Trueman 6 productions
Harold Minjer 6 productions
Dorothy Sands 6 productions
Otto Hulicius 5 productions
Marc Loebell 5 productions
George Hoag 5 productions
George Heller 5 productions
Lily Lubell 4 productions
Ian Maclaren 4 productions
William Beyer 3 productions
Sadie Sussman 3 productions
Marie Carroll 3 productions

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In the literature2 passages

  • Cast: Beatrice Lillie, Ethel Waters, Herb Williams, Eleanor Powell, Paul Haakon, Reginald Gardiner, Eddie Foy Jr., Vera Allen, John Payneebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • OBITUARIES VERA ALLEN, 89, New York City-bom actress on stage, screen, TV and radio, died of heart failure August 10 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. She made her debut in 1925 in “The Grand Street Follies” followed by as The Dybbuk, The Critic, appeared on Broadway in The Silver Cord, Susan and God, A Woman's a Fool to be Clever, The Phila…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1987-88 Season, v. 44 (Willis).txt

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