The run closed March 3, 1928
- Opened
- January 3, 1928
- Closed
- March 3, 1928
- Performances
- 71
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 2,148 productions we hold that opened in the 1920s and record a performance count, this is the 780th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it59 named
Paul Banker
James H Beattie
Joan Clement
May Cornes
Cleo Cullen
Peggy Cunningham
Evelyn Dehkes
Teddy Denton
Bernie Dirkes
Frank Doane
Malcolm Duffield
Pearl Eaton
Evelyn Ellsmore
Geraldine Fitzgerald
William Frawley
Doreen Glover
Alfred Hale
Violet Hanbury
Muriel Hayman
Elsie Holt
Grace Holt
Topsy Humphries
Mary Louise
William Mccarthy
Glenn Mccomas
Alfred Milano
Catherine Na Varro
Blanche O Donohoe
Charlotte Otis
Jessie Payne
Phyllis Rae
Peti Reed
Lily Reilly
Anna Riley
Evelyn Sayers
Loretta Sayers
Georgie Sewell
Ula Sharon
William Sholar Jr
Iris Smith
Pearl Sodders
Peggy Sowden
Jack Stevens
Ward Tallman
Norma Taylor
George Vigouroux
Robert Vreeland
Florence Ware
Doris Waterworth
Hazel Webb
Jill Williams
Vivian Wilson
Hilda Winstanley
Dorothy Wyatt
5 of these 59 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 54 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
- Edward Royce
- Choreographer
- Mary Read
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.
Around this production
Despite a stellar cast including Beatrice Lillie and Clifton Webb, and a Rodgers and Hart score, the show struggled. A young Irene Dunne appeared in the chorus before becoming a major Hollywood star.
- Both of Youmans’ future wives, incidentally, were in the OH, PLEASE! chorus. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 171
- 'Morning Is Midnight’—also used in SHE’S MY BABY [January 3, 1928]' and '“A Tiny Flat Near Soho Square”—see SHE’S MY BABY','confidence': 1.0},{ Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 190
- Another British hit, memorable for establishing Jessie Matthews as a star. Matthews introduced the soon-to-be-imported “My Heart Stood Still,” inspired by the near-collision of a Paris taxicab containing Rodgers and Hart. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 193
- Rodgers and Hart eventually did come up with a Lillie gem: “Rhythm” (in the British revue PLEASE! [November 16, 1933]), which seems to have been revised from un- used SHE’S MY BABY material. Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 195
- “Why Do You Suppose?”—new lyric for “How Was I To Know” (cut) from SHE’S MY BABY [January 3, 1928] Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 198
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
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 She’s My Baby at all.
- No show page for She’s My Baby. 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.