The run closed July 12, 1947
- Opened
- November 8, 1939
- Closed
- July 12, 1947
- Performances
- 3,224
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Empire Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 1st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it53 named
Katharine Bard
Dorothy Bernard
Nellie Burt
John Drew Devereaux
Ruth Hammond
Timothy Kearse
John C King
Portia Morrow
Larry Robinson
Raymond Roe
Richard Simon
Richard Sterling
Dorothy Stickney
Teresa Wright
Gertrude Beach
Marianne Byer
Lily Cahill
Teddy Casey
Wallis Clark
Harvey Collins
Ben Cooper
Jack Dimond
Robert Donnelly
Michael Dreyfuss
Virginia Dunning
John Grine
Grace Grinnell
John Grinnell
Elaine Ivans
Dean Kenny
Mary Mcnamee
Norman Miller
Brandon Peters
Artie Quinn
Margaret Randall
Donald Randolph
Paul Wells
Nydia Westman
David Anderson
Jacquelin Daniels
David Garden
Pamela Gillespie
Ruth Mcarthur
Lassie Moore
Barbara Barton
Jim Christie
Tommy Dineen
David Frank
Gene Fuller
Ellen Humphrey
Kathleen Mclean
2 of these 53 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 51 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
- Bretaigne Windust
- Producer
- Oscar Serlin
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 Life With Father at all.
- No show page for Life With Father. 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.