The run closed March 30, 1940
- Opened
- March 28, 1939
- Closed
- March 30, 1940
- Performances
- 417
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 21st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Philadelphia Story 1 more that season
| 1980 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Ellis Rabb | 60 perf. |
Who was in it14 named
Lorraine Bate
Owen Coll
Joseph Cotten
Frank Fenton
Philip Foster
Van Heflin
Lenore Lonergan
Forrest Orr
Myrtle Tannehill
Dan Tobin
4 of these 14 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 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
- Robert B. Sinclair
- 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 Philadelphia Story at all.
- No show page for The Philadelphia Story. 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.