The run closed August 12, 1950
- Opened
- March 23, 1949
- Closed
- August 12, 1950
- Performances
- 581
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Hudson Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 39th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it41 named
Ralph Bellamy
Jean Adair
John Alberts
Joseph Ancona
Archie Benson
Edward Binns
John Boyd
Michelette Burani
Joan Copeland
Jim Flynn
Lou Gilbert
Sarah Grable
Lee Grant
Carl Griscom
Byron C Halstead
Michael Lewin
James Maloney
Horace Mcmahon
Patrick Mcvey
Jacqueline Paige
Joe Roberts
Alexander Scourby
Warren Stevens
Ruth Storm
Robert Strauss
Michael Strong
Earl Sydnor
Les Tremayne
James Westerfield
Garney Wilson
Joseph Wiseman
Harry Worth
Anne Burr
Lydia Clarke
Frank de Kova
Ruth Gilbert
Elinor Randel
Janet Ward
3 of these 41 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 38 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Sidney Kingsley
- Producer
- Howard Lindsay
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Detective Story at all.
- No show page for Detective Story. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.