The run closed February 18, 1939
- Opened
- February 11, 1939
- Closed
- February 18, 1939
- Performances
- 9
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Hudson Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 1,007th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it79 named
Gilbert Adkins
Joyce Beasley
Verona Blackburn
Atta Blake
Al Bledger
Juanita Boisseau
Eva Bradley
Marion Brown
Ralph Brown
Joe Byrd
Beryl Clarke
Robert Clarke
Gladys Clayton
Marian Coleman
Muriel Cook
Gaylord Crawford
Rosetta Crawford
Gladys Crowder
Joe Daniels
Madelyn Donable
William Downes
Dr Sausage and His Five Pork Chops
Shorty Eddie
Horatio Edwards
Marion Egber
Bobby Evans
Mae Francis
Billie French
Richard Grant
Violet Gray
George Greenidge
Kate Hall
Hamtree Harrington
Cleo Hayes
Coleman Hill
Walter Hilliard
Louisa Howard
Edith Hurd
Joyce James
Ann Johnson
Dorothy Jones
Mickey Jones
Rosalie King
Larri Lauria
Jerry Laws
James Logan
Dewey Markham
Ruthena Matson
Norman Mcconny
Norma Miller
Lucia Moses
Beryl Murray
Frank Riley
Lorenza Roberson
Marguerite Robinson
Marie Robinson
Renu Roma
Edith Ross
Zelda Shelton
Evelyn Sheppard
Peggy Sheppard
Baby Simmons
Edna Slatten
Hazel Spence
Hettie Stephens
Catherine Stevenson
Wahneta Talley
Jennie Taylor
Williard Taylor
Mary Tennant
Elizabeth Thompson
Thelma Walton
Charles Welch
Billy Williams
Lavinia Williams
Rosetta Williams
3 of these 79 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 76 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
- Choreographer
- Rube Bloom
- Producer
- Lew Leslie
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 Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1939 at all.
- No director named.
- No show page for Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1939. 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.