BROADWAY PLAYS – 1923-1955

  • “Apple of His Eye,” starring Edward Arnold
  • “Angel Street,” by Patrick Hamilton
  • “Blithe Spirit,” by Noel Coward starring Lillian Harvey
  • “Candle in the Wind,” starring Helen Hayes by Maxwell Anderson
  • “Favorite Stranger,” starring Kay Francis
  • “Good Night Ladies”
  • “I Married an Angel,” by Rodgers and Hart
  • “Idiot’s Delight,” by Robert E. Sherwood
  • “Madame Butterfly,” by Puccini
  • “Mr. Roberts”
  • “Porgy and Bess”
  • “Summer and Smoke,” starring Dorothy McGuire and John Ireland by Tennessee Williams
  • “There Shall Be No Night,” starring Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Thomas Gomez, Sydney Greenstreet, and Montgomery Clift
  • “Watch on the Rhine,” by Lillian Hellman
  • “Whiteoaks,” starring Ethel Barrymore
  • “The Barretts of Wimpole Street,” starring Katharine Cornell, Orson Welles, George Macready, and Basil Rathbone, 1934
  • “Mary of Scotland,” starring Helen Hayes, 1935 by Maxwell Anderson
  • “The Old Maid,” starring Judith Anderson, 1936
  • “George White’s Scandals,” 1936 and 1940
  • “Boy Meets Girl,” 1937
  • “Tobacco Road,” based on the novel by Erskine Caldwell, 1937
  • “Tovarich” by Jacques Deval
  • “Room Service,” 1937
  • “King Richard II,” starring Maurice Evans, Shakespeare, 1938
  • “No Time for Comedy,” starring Katharine Cornell, 1940
  • “Skylark,” starring Gertrude Lawrence and Vivian Vance, 1940 by Samson Raphaelson
  • “The Philadelphia Story,” starring Katharine Hepburn, Van Heflin, and Joseph Cotton by Phillip Barry, 1941
  • “Treat Her Gently,” starring Ruth Chatterton, 1941
  • “Claudia,” starring Phyllis Thaxter, 1942
  • “Blossom Time,” 1945
  • “Joan of Lorraine,” starring Diana Barrymore, 1948
  • “Harvey,” starring Joe E. Brown, 1948
  • “Man and Superman,” starring Maurice Evans by George Bernard Shaw, 1949
  • ” A Streetcar Named Desire,” by Tennessee Williams, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Ralph Meeker, 1949
  • “Bell, Book and Candle,” starring Joan Bennett, Zachary Scott, and William Windom, 1952, by John Van Druten
  • “Paris ’90,” written by and starring Cornelia Otis Skinner, 1952
  • “Strike A Match,” starring Pat O’Brien, Eva Gabor, and Richard Egan, 1953
  • “The Seven Year Itch,” starring Eddie Bracken 1955 by George Axelrod
“Playbills from the 1923-1955 era of Broadway presentations at the Paramount are courtesy of The Austin History Center, a division of the Austin Public Library”