- (1923 - 1934) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1923) Stage Play: Earl Carroll's Vanities. Musical revue. Music by Earl Carroll. Lyrics by Earl Carroll. Musical Director: William Daly. Music orchestrated by Arthur Lange. Choreographed by Sammy Lee. Ballet by Frederick Renoff. Directed by William Collier. Earl Carroll Theatre: 5 Jul 1923- 29 Dec 1923 (204 performances). Cast: Joe Cook [Broadway debut], Thelma Addison, Charles Alexander, Florence Ames, Abner Barnhart, Billy Blythe, Olga Borowska, Graham Brewer, Violet Bristow, Ethel Bryant, Harry Burns, Callahan Boys, Mary Carney, Jean Caswell, Sarah Cavais, Lota Cheeck, Al Clair, Albert Coleman, Alden Cooke, Alan Dale, Margaret Davies, Al Davis, Delmore and Lee, Thelma DeLorez, Carlena Diamond, Eddie Dowling (as "Chorus"), Jimmy Duffy, Bernice Elen, Claire Elgin, Vera Featherly, Betty Fitch, Amy Frank, Frances Frost, Florence Gillingham, Roy Giusti, Myrtle Glenn, Bernard Granville, Bennet Green, Brooks Hall, Ruth Hargraves, Dolla Harkins, Carlos Hatvary, Sam Hermann, Harry Howell, Jean Huntington, Gladys Jones, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Dorothy Knapp [Broadway debut], Mr. Lashly, Gertrude Lemmon, J. Frank Leslie, Emily Lorraine, Polly Lux, Muriel Manners, Russell Markert [Broadway debut], Loretta Marks, George McCormick, Margaret McKay, Helen Menette, Marjorie Miller, Babette Mitchell, Mae Mitchell, Lucille Moore, Poppy Morton, Dennis Murray, Elsie Neal, Dorothy Neville, Alfred Oakley, Richard Oakley, William O'Rourke, Lester Ostrander, Edith Parker, Jack Patton, Cardinal Piearo, Charlotte Pleshette, Lucille Pryor, Pat Quinten, Rekoma, Renoff & Renova, Irene Ricardo, Amy Rivere, Sunny Saunders, Charles Senna, Daniel Sparks, Robert Spencer, Rose Stone, Lillian Sutherland, Florence Tempest, Al Thomas, Jean Watson, George West, Flo White, Hazel Wilder, Harry Williams, Tracy Wood, Betty Wright, Patricia Wright, Mr. Wyatt, Marion Youron. Produced by Earl Carroll.
- (1924) Stage Play: Ziegfeld Follies of 1924. Musical revue. Music by Victor Herbert, Raymond Hubbell, Dave Stamper, Harry Tierney and Dr. Albert Szirmai. Lyrics by Gene Buck and Joseph McCarthy. Dialogue by: William Anthony McGuire and Will Rogers. Musical Director: Victor Baravalle. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett, Fred Barry, Harold Sanford and Steven Jones. Featuring songs by Fred Mels and Leon Jessel. Featuring songs with lyrics by Laurant Halet. Directed by Julian Mitchell. New Amsterdam Theatre: 24 Jun 1924- 7 Mar 1925 (295 performances). Cast included: Bernice Ackerman, Miss Andrea, Lina Basquette, Marian Benda, Miss Boatwright, Arthur Brown, Dorothy Brown, Catherine Burke, Miss Byron, Miss Calame, Cynthia Cambridge, Louise Carlton, Mae Daw, Gloria Dawn [final Broadway role], Alma Drange, Giole Eller, Helen Ellsworth, Hilda Ferguson, Irving Fisher, Miss Francis, Evelyn Goodwin, Beryl Halley, Lorette Hurley, Alf James, Miss Johnson, Mary Julian, Kelo Brothers, Dorothy Knapp, Frank Lambert, Lupino Lane, Evelyn Law, Edna Leedom, Dorothy Leet, Marjorie Leet, Tom Lewis, Miss Littlefield, Doris Lloyd, Gladys Loftus, Martha Lorber, Miss Martin, Miss McDonald, Miss McGee, Constance McLaughlin, Mitty and Tillio, Polly Nally, Al Ochs, George Olsen's Band, Ann Pennington, Serge Pernikoff, Martha Pierre, Miss Rasche, Anastasia Reilly, Francis Reveaux, Will Rogers, Russian Lilliputians, Phil Ryley, Vivienne Segal, Jack Shannon, Miss Sheldon, Mark Truscott, Brandon Tynan, Miss Wildo, Cricket Wooten. Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr..
- (1925) Stage Play: Ziegfeld Follies of 1925. Musical revue. Sketches by J.P. McEvoy, Will Rogers, W.C. Fields and Gus Weinberg. Music by Raymond Hubbell, Dave Stamper and Werner Janssen. Lyrics by Gene Buck. Musical Director: Louis Gress. Music orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett, Fred Barry, Harold Sandford and Steven Jones. Featuring songs by Leo Daniderff. Directed by Julian Mitchell. Tableaux staged by Ben Ali Haggin. New Amsterdam Theatre: 6 Jul 1925- 19 Sep 1925 (88 performances). Cast: Lina Basquette, Bertha Belmore, Marion Benda, Louise Brooks, Katherine Burke, Cynthia Cambridge, Elise Cavanna, Elsie Cavanna, Bob Chase, Chaz Chase, Harriet Chetwynd, Dare and Wahl, Ray Dooley, Alma Drange, Peggy Fears, Hilda Ferguson, W.C. Fields, Irving Fisher, Norma Forrest, Noel Francis, Evelyn Goodwin, Beryl Halley, Al Hardy, Helen Henderson, Marion Hurley, Naomi Johnson, Flo Kennedy, Dorothy Knapp, Frank Lambert, Edna Leedom, Marjorie Leet, Doris Lloyd, Gladys Loftus, Helen MacFadden, Tommy Mack, Virginia Magee, Gertrude Michaels, Mary Mulhern, Barbara Newberry, Clarence Nordstrom, Al Ochs, George Olsen's Band, Frances Reveaux, Will Rogers, Adelaide Seaman, Vivienne Segal, Jack Shannon, Ethel Shutta, Dave Stamper, Bobby Storey, The Kelo Brothers, Mark Truscott, Brandon Tynan, Vangie Valentine, Dorothy Van Alst, Cricket Wooten. Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
- (1926) Stage Play: Earl Carroll's Vanities. Musical revue. Music by Grace Henry and Morris Hamilton. Book by Stanley Rauh and William Grew. Lyrics by Grace Henry and Morris Hamilton. Choreographed by David Bennett. Earl Carroll Theatre: 24 Aug 1926- May 1927 (closing date unknown/303 performances). Cast: Hazel Bowman, Florence Brady, Charles Dale, Magda De Bries, M. De Jari, Harry Delf, Bernard Dudley, Norman Frescott, Dorothy Knapp, Moran and Mack, Robert Rhodes, Yvette Rugel, Joseph Smith, Bernice Speer, Julius Tannen, Gilbert Wells, Thelma White. Produced by Earl Carroll.
- (1928) Stage Play. Earl Carroll's Vanities. Musical revue. Lyrics by Grace Henry. Music by Morris Hamilton. Book by W.C. Fields, Paul Gerard Smith, Joe Frisco, Robert T. Tarrant and Herman Meyer. Additional music by George Bagby, G. Romilli, Michael H. Cleary, George Whiting, Louis Alter, Mario Savino, Jesse Greer, Ernie Golden and Abner Silver. Musical Direction by Ray Kavanaugh. Additional lyrics by Paul Jones, Ned Washington, Joe Burke, Raymond Klages, Ernie Golden, Jack LeSoir and Roy Doll. Choreographed by Busby Berkeley. Staged by Edgar J. MacGregor. Machinery Ballet created and staged by the Marmein Sisters. Assembled and Directed by Earl Carroll. Earl Carroll Theatre: 6 Aug 1928- 2 Feb 1929 (200 performances). Cast: Fay Adler, Peggy Andre, Violet Arnold, Faith Bacon [Broadway debut], Hazel Bailey, Barto & Mann, Bonnie Blackwood, Peggy Blake, Richard Bold, Lilian Bond, Ted Bradford, Dorothy Britton, Louise Brooks, Marian Carew, Ernest Charles, Catherine Clark, Elsie Connor, Frances Delacy, Gordon Dooley, Ray Dooley, W.C. Fields, Dorothea Frank, Joe Frisco, Edward Graham, Beryl Halley, Edyth Hansen, Marion Harke, Angeline Hassel, Rita Jason, Alyce Johnson, Naomi Johnson, Frances Joyce, Ruth Kent, Nelda Kincaid, Dorothy Knapp, Maurice Lapue, Vincent Lopez Band, Polly Luce, Dorothy Lull, Brian MacDonald, Dana Merrill, Martha Morton, Jean Murray, Marion O'Day, Ruth Patterson, Peggy Purcell, Joey Ray, Lillian Roth, Blanche Satchell, Wanda Stevenson, Bobby Storey, Elizabeth Surran, Jean Tennyson, Katherine Vercelle, Louise Vercelle, Beryl Wallace, Florence Ward, Eileen Wenzel, Rose Wenzel, Diana White, Vivian Wilson. Produced by Earl Carroll.
- (1929) Stage Play: Fioretta. Musical/romantic comedy/operetta. Music by George Babgy and G. Romilli. Book by Earl Carroll. Book adapted by Charlton Andrews. Lyrics by George Babgy and G. Romilli. Additional lyrics by Grace Henry, Jo Trent and Billy Rose. Music orchestrated by Domenico Savino. Musical Direction by Han Fredhoven. Choreographed by LeRoy Prinz. Production Supervised by Earl Carroll. Directed by Clifford Brooke and Edgar J. MacGregor. Earl Carroll Theatre,: 5 Feb 1929- 11 May 1929 (111 performances). Cast: Dorothy Knapp (as "Fioretta Pepoli"), Violet Arnold, Lionel Atwill (as "Count Matteo Di Brozzo"), Faith Bacon, Paul Banker, Vic Banks, William Billinghurst, Jack Boggs, Lilian Bond (as "Rosamanda," and "Ensemble"), Jay Brennan, Fanny Brice (as "Marchesa Vera Di Livio"), Dorothy Britton, Leo Bronson. Louise Brooks (as "Lucetta," and "Ensemble"), Catherine Clark, G. Davison Clark, Charles Columbus, Elsie Connor, Dorothy Corrigan, Dorice Covert, Rita Crane, Evelyn Crowell, Frank Cullen, Frances Delacy, Sylvia Derby, Leon Dumbadse, Leon Errol (as "Julio Pepoli"), Jackson Fairchild, Stuart N. Farrington (as "Corporal"), Frank Fiore, Dorothea Frank, Geranium, David Gerry, Harry Goldberg, Betty Goodwin, Gean Greenwald, Giovanni Guerreri, Roy Hansen, Marion Harcke, Angeline Hassel, Virginia Hawkins, George Houston (as "Orsino" AKA "Count di Rovani"), Charles Howard, Stanley Howard (as "Ensemble"), Margaret Joyce, Theo Karle, Nelda Kincaid, Carol Kingsbury, Martin Le Roy, Bob Lee, Jack Leps, August Lindauer, Wallace Magill, Margaret Manners, John Marlowe, Doris Maye, Russell McLelland, Ida Michaels, Odessa Morgan, Alphonso Mullarkey, Armin Muller, Ordoni Muzzi, Charles Naylor, Leo Pardello, Ruth Patterson, Elsie Pedrick, Irma Philbin, Rae Powell, John Roland, Leonard Ross, Louis Ruff, Albert Sanchez, Blanche Satchell, Hugh Saunders, Sidney Schlesser, Rose Shaw, Martin Sheppard, Autumn Simms, Nelson Snow, Rita Stone, Clement Taylor, Peggy Taylor, Ernest Tello, Benjamin Tilberg, Leonard Trion, Costanza Venturella, Ethel Jane Walker, Dow Walling, J. Allen Ware, Vivian Wilson, John Zimmerman. Produced by Earl Carroll. Note: The quintessential flop of Broadway history. This was Carroll's first attempt at one of his own script adaptations. He made the critical error in casting his girlfriend, Miss Knapp in the lead role in a musical. Knapp couldn't (and didn't) sing in the production and was ridiculed by critics. Carroll's principal backer, Mrs. Anne Warren Weightman Penfield lost her $350,000.00 investment in this show.
- (1931) Stage Play: Free for All. Musical comedy. Book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Laurence Schwab. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Musical Director: John McManus. Music by Richard A. Whiting. Musical Director: John McManus. Dances by Bobby Connolly. Directed by Oscar Hammerstein II. Manhattan Theatre: 8 Sep 1931- 19 Sep 1931 (15 performances). Cast: Charles Althoff, Seth Arnold (as "Pete Weber, a Nevada Sheriff"), Olive Bayes, Lilian Bond (as "Marie Sinnot, Editor of "Free for All"), Julia Chandler, G. Pat Collins, John Donahue, Al Downing, Edward Emery, Dorris Groday, Jack Haley (as "Steve Potter Jr., Son of Stephen, Sr."), Peter Higgins, Gus Howard, David Hutcheson, Dorothea James, Grace Johnston, Dorothy Knapp (as "Miss Gibbs"), Clair Kramer, Peter Lang, Jeannette Loff, Philip Lord, Vera Marsh, Rae Powell, Robert Randall, Edwin Saulpaugh, Harry Shannon, Tamara, Thelma Tipson, Don Tomkins, Edward Walters. Produced by Laurence Schwab and Frank Mandel.
- (1934) Stage Play: Broadway Interlude. Comedy.
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