Theatre Register

The Fifth Column, 1940

Shows · Alvin Theatre, 1940

Original BroadwayNeil Simon Theatre 87 performances

The run closed May 18, 1940

Opened
March 6, 1940
Closed
May 18, 1940
Performances
87
Previews
Theatre
Neil Simon Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 254th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it22 named

Emil Boreo
Hilda Bruce
Sid Cassel
Fred Catania
Kendall Clark
Lee J Cobb
Harry Davis
John Gerard
Raoul Henry
A J Herbert
Charles Jordan
Peter Knego
David Leonard
Henry Levin
Philip Lewis
Katherine Locke
Wendell K Phillips
Michael Sage
William F Schoeller
Franchot Tone
Lenore Ulric

1 of these 22 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 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
Lee Strasberg
Producer
The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors)

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 The Fifth Column at all.
  • No show page for The Fifth Column. 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.

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