The run closed June 8, 1946
- Opened
- June 3, 1946
- Closed
- June 8, 1946
- Performances
- 8
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 640th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it12 named
Richard Dyer Bennet
Peter Boyne
Jefferson Coates
Ralph Cullinan
Elizabeth Eustis
John Gay
John Mckee
Max Stamm
Ralph Sumpter
Richard Temple
Barry Thomson
1 of these 12 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 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
- Producer
- Ruth Chatterton
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 Second Best Bed at all.
- No director named.
- No show page for Second Best Bed. 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.