Ladies and Gentlemen (play)
| Ladies and Gentlemen | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht |
| Date premiered | 1939 |
| Place premiered | Santa Barbara |
Ladies and Gentlemen is a play by
.The play premiered in Santa Barbara, then ran for two weeks each in San Francisco and Los Angeles, with Helen Hayes and Herbert Marshall in the lead roles. It marked Hayes' return to the stage three years after her lengthy run in Victoria Regina.[1]
The
The play was filmed as Perfect Strangers in 1950.
Broadway cast
- Helen Hayes as Miss Scott
- Philip Merivale as Mr. Campbell
- Pat Harringtonas Patullo
- Robert Keith as Reynolds
- Roy Roberts as Ward
- Evelyn Varden as Mrs. Bradford
- Frank Conlan as Purdey
- Connie Gilchrist as Mrs. Rudd
- William Lynn as The Sheriff
- Donald MacKenzie as Hutchinson
- Guy Moneypenny as George
- Jacqueline Paige as Mrs. Moore
- James Seeley as Van Duren
- Joseph Sweeney as Butterworth
- George Watson as Pettijohn
- Edna West as Mrs. Wolfe
- Martin Wolfson as Herz
- Harry Antrim as a bailiff
Critical reception
Of the play Time said, "[it] brings Near-Divinity Helen Hayes back to Broadway in her first new role there since December 1935. For this Broadway can rejoice, even though finding anything to rejoice at in the play itself is like looking for a needle in a Hayestack. After a two-month tryout, this thing of shreds & patches is still, like Gaul, divided into three parts — comedy, drama, romance — and, as in Gaul, the three parts are on very uncivil terms."[2]