- (1917 - 1948) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1917) Stage Play: Lord and Lady Algy. (Revival). Written by R.C. Carton. Broadhurst Theatre: 22 Dec 1917- Jan 1918 (closing date unknown/41 performances). Cast: Macklyn Arbuckle, Herbert Belmore, C Haviland Chappell, Maxine Elliott, William Faversham, Irene Fenwick, George Fitzgerald, Franklyn Fox [Broadway debut], Lumsden Hare, Harvey Hays, George W. Howard, Philip Leigh, Frederick Lloyd, William Vaughan, Julian Vauxhall.
- (1922) Stage Play: Drifting. Melodrama. Written by John Colton and D.H. Andrews. Directed by John Cromwell. Playhouse Theatre: 2 Jan 1922- Feb 1922 (closing date unknown/63 performances). Cast: Allen Atwell, Frank Backus, Millie Beland, William Blaisdell, Humphrey Bogart (as "Ernie Crockett/Third Husband") [Broadway debut], Alice Brady (as "Cassie Cook"), Cornelius Bull, Leonard Cary, Jane Corcoran (as "Mrs. Cook/A Monger of Lost Dolls"), Burr Caruth [credited as Burr Curruth], Harry Davies, Marguerite de Marhanno, Maxwell Driscoll, Barry Fitz Patrick, Franklyn Fox, Master Jack Grattan, Lumsden Hare (as "Dr. Li Shen Kueng"), Olaf Laven, Winifred Lawshe, Geraldine McCreery, Edward Meeker [credited as Leward Meeker], Florence Short, Edwin Thompson, Blanche Wallace, Eve Ware, Robert Warwick, H. Mortimer White. Produced by William A. Brady.
- (1924) Stage Play: That Awful Mrs. Eaton. Drama. Written by John Farrar and Stephen Vincent Benet. Morosco Theatre: 29 Sep 1924- Oct 1924 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Cordelia Howard Aiken (as "Mrs. John Quincy Adams"), Katharine Alexander (as "Peggy O'Neal Eaton"), Mary Allen (as "Dolly Madison"), Frank Andrews (as "Mordecai Noah/John Branch, Secretary of the Navy"), Margaret Armstrong (as "Mrs. Everett"), Lee Beggs (as "Daniel Webster") [Broadway debut], James A. Bliss (as "U.S. Senator Peleg Sprague"), Joyce Borden (as "Emily Donelson"), Laura Brittan (as "Mrs. Henry Clay"), Herbert Bunston (as "Sir Charles Vaughan, British Ambassador"), Ulric Blair Collins (as "Duff Green"), Henry Crosby (as "Colonel Towson"), Harry Davies (as "Major-General Alexander Macomb"), H.G. Emerson (as "Samuel D. Ingham, Secretary of Treasury"), Franklyn Fox (as "Richard Hibson"), Elmer Grandin (as "John C. Calhoun"), Virginia Howell (as "Mrs. Sprague"), Margot Lester (as "Mary Vaughan"), Kirah Markham (as "Mrs. Daniel Webster"), Frank McGlynn (as "Andrew Jackson"), Isabel O'Madigan (as "Mrs. John C. Calhoun"), Ernest E. Pollock (as "John McPherson Berrien, Attorney General"), William R. Randall (as "John Henry Eaton, Secretary of War"), Mary Ellen Ryan (as "Mrs. Hibson"), Lota Sanders (as "Mrs. Branch"), Clifford Sellers (as "Mrs. Ingham"), Mary Taylor (as "Mrs. Berrien"), Lou Turner (as "William Taylor Barry, Postmaster General"), Minor Watson (as "Major William B. Taylor"), Robert Wayne (as "Martin Van Buren, Secretary of State"), Thomas H. Wenning (as "Commodore John Rodgers"), William Walcott [erroneously credited as William Wolcott] (as "Dr. Campbell"), Walter Young (as "Jim"). Produced by William A. Brady.
- (1924) Stage Play: Carnival. Written by Ferenc Molnár. Translated by Melville Baker. Directed by Frank Reicher. Cort Theatre: 29 Dec 1924- Jan 1925 (closing date unknown/32 performances). Cast: Henry Bloomfield, Richard Bowler (as "Secret Service Man"), Edith Harding Brown, Leo G. Carroll (as "Matyas Oez"), Berton Churchill (as "Sandor Oroszy"), Elsie Ferguson, Franklyn Fox (as "A Cavalry Captain"), Anna Gray, Basil Hanbury, Margaret Hutchins, Nicholas Joy (as "Edmund, Police Commissaire"), Kenneth Lawton, Stanley Logan, Tom Nesbitt, Mignon O'Doherty, Mildred Wall. Produced by Charles Frohman, Inc.
- (1925) Stage Play: Gypsy Fires. Melodrama. Written by Allan Davis. Directed by A.H. Van Buren. George M. Cohan's Theatre: 7 Dec 1925- Dec 1925 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Arthur Albertson, Perce Benton, Lord Brilliant, Alice Fischer, Lillian Foster, Franklyn Fox (as "ZInca Daczos"), Winifred Gaynor, J.M. Kerrigan (as "Rodney O'Neil"), Tamzon Manker, "Moonshine," Albert Phillips, Eeda Von Buelow. Produced by William Caryl.
- (1926) Stage Play: The Humble. Drama. Written by Laurence Irving. Based on "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Directed by Bertram Forsyth. Greenwich Village Theatre: 13 Oct 1926- Oct 1926 (closing date unknown/21 performances). Cast: Michel Barroy (as "Cossack"), George Bratt (as "Mikolka"), T.H. Bunch (as "A Policeman"), Thomas Chalmers (as "Kashkin"), Kate De Becker (as "Pulcheria"), Verna Dean (as "Katinka"), Mary Ellis (as "Sonia Martinova"), Maurice Fein (as "Solski"), Franklyn Fox (as "Keller"), Arthur Gray (as "Another Policeman"), Sydney Greenstreet (as "Bezak"), Wallace House (as "Dmitri"), Curtis Karpe (as "Koltzoff"), David Landau (as "Gromoff"), Florence Mason (as "Doonia Romanova"), Junius Matthews (as "Dr. Zozimoff"), V.P. Newmark (as "Sergeant of Police"), Mae Noble (as "Nastasia"), Basil Sydney (as "Rodion Rskolnikoff"), Barington White (as "Cossack"). Produced by Carl Reed.
- (1928) Stage Play: Mirrors. Written by Milton Herbert Gropper. Directed by Albert Lewis. Forrest Theatre: 18 Jan 1928- Jan 1928 (closing date unknown/13 performances). Cast: Patricia Barclay, Joan Brown, Dorothea Chard (as "Phyllis Langdon"), Bruce Evans, Franklyn Fox (as "Donald Dean"), Gene Raymond (as "Calvin Trask") [credited as Raymond Guion], Albert Hackett (as "Roger King"), Hale Hamilton (as "Gilbert Norton"), Jack MacLennan, Marie Nordstrom, Lea Penman (as "Mrs. Trask"), Gerald Phillips, Alan Purling, Sylvia Sidney (as "Mary Norton"), Richard Sterling. Produced by Albert Lewis.
- (1928) Stage Play: Straight Thru the Door. Comedy/mystery. Written by William Hodge. Directed by Maurice Barrett. 49th Street Theatre: 4 Oct 1928- Nov 1928 (closing date unknown/44 performances). Produced by William Hodge.
- (1929) Stage Play: Nigger Rich (The Big Shot). Comedy. Written by John McGowan. Directed by John McGowan. Royale Theatre: 20 Sep 1929- Sep 1929 (closing date unknown/11 performances). Cast: Don Beddoe (as "Blake") [Broadway debut], John A. Butler (as "Joe Burns"), Eric Dressler (as "Mike Kelly"), Elvia Enders (as "Helen Page"), Helen Flint (as "Nina Welman"), Franklyn Fox (as "Ray Cole"), Adelaide Hibbard (as "Mrs. Mason"), Rikel Kent (as "Martin"), William Lemuels (as "Tucker"), Roderick Maybee (as "Denning"), Richard Taber (as "Gunny Jones"), Spencer Tracy (as "Eddie Perkins"), Gene West (as "Gates"). Produced by Lee Shubert.
- (1930) Stage Play: Those We Love. Drama. Written by George Abbott and S.K. Lauren. Directed by George Abbott. John Golden Theatre: 19 Feb 1930- Apr 1930 (closing date unknown/77 performances). Cast: George Abbott (as "Frederick Williston"), Joseph Crehan (as "Daley"), Helen Flint, Franklyn Fox (as "Bertie Parker"), Josephine Hull (as "Evelyn"), Percy Kilbride (as "Jake"), Madeleine King, Armina Marshall (as "May Williston"), Edwin Philips, Natalie Potter, G. Albert Smith, J. Ascher Smith, John Stokes, Elizabeth Taylor, Charles Waldron (as "Mr. Blake"). Produced by Philip Dunning. Note: Filmed as Those We Love (1932).
- (1930) Stage Play: Queen at Home. Comedy.
- (1933) Stage Play: Riddle Me This. Comedy (revival).
- (1934) Stage Play: Caviar. Romantic comedy/musical.
- (1935) Stage Play: Sweet Mystery of Life. Comedy. Written by Richard Maibaum, Michael Wallach and George Haight. Scenic Design by Donald Oenslager. Directed by Herman Shumlin. Shubert Theatre: 11 Oct 1935- Oct 1935 (closing date unknown/11 performances). Cast: Evelyn Allen [Broadway debut] (as "Genevieve"), Edward Butler (as "Andy Flannigan"), Hobart Cavanaugh (as "Rosmer Peek"), Mady Correll (as "Norma"), Broderick Crawford (as "Boop Oglethorpe") [Broadway debut], William David (as "Herring"), Joseph Eggenton (as "Doctor MacDuffy"), Franklyn Fox (as "Wethered"), Curtis Karpe (as "Doctor Worshofsky"), Pass Le Noir (as "J.C. Nichol"), 'Gene Lockhart (as "Samuel L. Blauker"), Kathryn March (as "Lucille Bailey"), 'Louis Polan' (as "Loretti"), Erskine Sanford (as "Doctor Warren"), Virginia Shields (as "Cigarette Girl"), Thomas F. Tracey (as "Doctor Bell"), Virginia Tracy (as "Mrs. Minninger"), Herbert Warren (as "Steiner"). Produced by Herman Shumlin.
- (1935) Stage Play: Tapestry in Gray. Drama. Written by Martin Flavin. Directed by Marion Gering. Shubert Theatre: 27 Dec 1935- Jan 1936 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Arling Alcine (as "Coroner's Office Man"), Auguste Aramini (as "A Waiter"), Audrey Barlow (as "Iris' Maid"), Miriam Battista (as "A Street Walker"), Cornelia Bell (as "Governess"), George Bleasdale (as "A Ship's Steward"), Milo Boulton (as "Ensemble"), Muriel Brassler (as "A Nurse"), Helene Bush (as "Surgical Nurse"), Claude Carey (as "Gunman"), Herschel Cropper (as "Ensemble"), Melvyn Douglas (as "Erik Nordgren"), Norma Downey (as "A Hospital Nurse"), Frederick Forrester (as "An Editor"), Franklyn Fox (as "A Medical Corps Major"), Paul Gallo (as "A Patient"), Larney Goodkind (as "Ensemble"), Robert Gray (as "Ensemble"), Jack Harwood (as "A Policeman"), William Hunter (as "Ensemble"), Starr West Jones (as "Ensemble"), Arnold Korff (as "Doctor Marius"), George Lamar (as "Young Medical Corps Officer"), Elissa Landi (as "Iris Nordgren"), Jack Lescoulie (as "MacManus"), June Leslie (as "A Woman"), Alan Morrill (as "A Hotel Porter"), Edgar Murdock (as "Stretcher Bearer"), Joseph Olney (as "Another Waiter"), Theodore Paul (as "Ensemble"), William Robertson (as "Ensemble"), Samuel Roland (as "A Beggar"), Byron Russell (as "Old Medical Corps Officer"), Owen Russell (as "Ensemble"), C. Russell Sage (as "Another Patient"), Alice Sherbon (as "A Ballet Dancer"), Howard Sherman (as "Erik Nordgren, Jr."), Mildred Van Dorn (as "Anaesthetist"), Henry Vincent (as "A Servant"), Michael Visaroff (as "The Ballet Master"), Minor Watson (as "Dr. Stephen Macklin"). Produced by B.P. Schulberg.
- (1936) Stage Play: Pre-Honeymoon. Comedy. Written by Alford Van Ronkel and Anne Nichols.
- (1937) Stage Play: Without Warning. Drama.
- (1937) Stage Play: Hooray for What! Musical comedy. Music by Harold Arlen. Music orchestrated by Don Walker. Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. Conceived by E.Y. Harburg. Additional orchestrations by Joseph Glover, Conrad Salinger and Paul Sterrett. Musical Director: Robert Emmett Dolan. Music arranged by Kay Thompson and Hugh Martin. Based on material by Howard Lindsay. Scenic Design by Vincente Minnelli. Costume Design by Raoul Pene Du Bois. Dances directed by Robert Alton. Directed and supervised by Vincente Minnelli. Winter Garden Theatre: 1 Dec 1937- 21 May 1938 (200 performances). Cast: Anthony Albert (as "Department Head/Dancing Ensemble"), Joanna Allen (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Peggy Badey (as "Singing Ensemble"), Margorie Baglin (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Al Baron (as "Second Tough"), Dorothy Bird (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Bidda Blakely (as "Singing Ensemble"), Ralph Blane (as "A Spy/Singing Ensemble"), Ruthanna Boris (as "Principal Dancer"), The Briants (as "Specialty Act"), Florine Callahan (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Constance Carr (as "Singing Ensemble"), Leo Chalzel (as "The Mayor/Herr Zingaroff"), William Chandler (as "Singing Ensemble"), Carrol Clarke (as "Singing Ensemble"), June Clyde, Harold Cook (as "Singing Ensemble"), Ford Crane (as "Singing Ensemble"), Maxine Darrell (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Louise de Forrest (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Helene Ecklund (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Will Ferry (as "Mr. Harriman"), The Five Reillys, Franklyn Fox (as "First Tough/Admiral Sir Basil Entwhistle"), Joel Friend (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Peggy Gallimore (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Phillip Gordon (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Al Gordon's Dogs (as "Specialty Act"), Paul Haakon (as "Princial Dancer"), Helen Hannan, William Hawley (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Rita Horgan (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Beverly Hosier (as "Singing Ensemble"), Frank Howard (as "Singing Ensemble"), Arthur Kay, Evelyn Laurie (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Hugh Martin (as "Singing Ensemble"), Mary Joan Martin (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Mary Meyer (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Mickey Moore (as "Department Head/Dancing Ensemble"), Evelyn Moser (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Meg Mundy (as "Singing Ensemble"), Edward Murray (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Dagmar Nilsson (as "Singing Ensemble"), Mary Ann Parker, Wynelle Patterson (as "Singing Ensemble"), Bill Pillick (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Leon Polinsky (as "Specialty Act"), Don Popikoff (as "Comrade Popikoff"), Jo Raskin (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Gracie Reilly (as "Gracie"), Marcel Rousseau, Sid Salzer (as "Department Head/Dancing Ensemble"), Charles Senna (as "Daniel/Generalissimo Di Gregorio"), Robert Shafer (as "Benjamin Benedict/Benjy"), Ruth Shaw (as "Dancing Ensemble"), John Smedberg (as "Singng Ensemble"), Virginia Smith (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Sue Hastings' Marionettes (as "Specialty Act"), Barbara Towne (as "Singing Ensemble"), Vivian Vance (as "Stephanie Stephanovich"), Marie Vanneman (as "Dancing Ensemble"), Virginia Vonne (as "Singing Ensemble"), Carol Louise Wanderman (as "Little Girl"), Jack Whiting (as "Breezy Cunningham"), Armonce Wilkins (as "Singing Ensemble"), Castle Williams (as "Manager/Singing Ensemble"), Ed Wynn (as "Chuckles"). Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1939) Stage Play: Day in the Sun. Comedy. Written by Edward Sammis and Ernest Van Heyn. Director. Biltmore Theatre: 16 May 1939- May 1939 (closing date unknown/6 performances). Cast: St. Clair Bayfield, Matt Briggs, Edward Butler, Royal Cutter, Jacqueline DeWitt, Franklyn Fox, Jack Hasker, Ralph Holmes, Taylor Holmes, Frank McCormick, Maida Reade, Elizabeth Reller, Sorele Sayer, James Todd, James Truex. Produced by Forbes Dawson.
- (1942) Stage Play: Mr. Sycamore [The Saga of John Gwilt in Eight Verses]. Comedy. Written by Ketti Frings [earliest Broadway credit], from a story by Robert Ayre. Directed by Lester Vail. Guild Theatre: 13 Nov 1942- 28 Nov 1942 (19 performances). Cast: Stuart Erwin (as "John Gwilt") [Broadway debut], Lillian Gish (as "Jane Gwilt"), Enid Markey (as "Estelle Benlow"), Walter F. Appler (as "Mr. Fernfield") [Broadway debut], Harry Bellaver, Albert Bergh (as "Mr. Oikle"), Helen Brown (as "People of Smeed"), Russell Collins (as "Reverand Doctor Doody"), Barbara Dale (as "People of Smeed"), Helen Dodson (as "People of Smeed"), Ed Dooley [credited as Jed Dooley] (as "Mr. Hammond"), Franklyn Fox (as "Fletcher Pingpank"), Kenneth Hayden (as "Second Milkman/People of Smeed"), Mary Heckart (as "Emily/People of Smeed"), Pearl Herzog (as "Daisy Staines"), Otto Hulett (as "Fred Staines"), Ray J. Largay (as "Mr. Hoop"), Louise McBride (as "Julie Fish/People of Smeed"), Peggy Opdycke (as "People of Smeed"), John Philliber (as "Abner Coote") [final Broadway role], Rupert Pole (as "Third Milkman/People of Smeed"), Leona Powers (as "Myrtle Staines"), Harry Sheppard (as "Ned Fish"), Buddy Swan (as "Albert Fernfield"), Ernest Theiss (as "First Milkman/People of Smeed"), Harry Townes (as "Tom Burton"), Albert Vees (as "People of Smeed"). Produced by The Theatre Guild. Notes: (1) One of the biggest flops of the 1942 Broadway season. (2) Filmed by Capricorn Productions [distributed by Film Ventures International (FVI)] as Mr. Sycamore (1975).
- (1943) Stage Play: Ask My Friend Sandy. Written by Stanley Young. Directed by Alfred De Liagre Jr. Biltmore Theatre: 4 Feb 1943- 13 Feb 1943 (12 performances). Cast: Phyllis Avery (as "Mary (Squeegee) O'Donnell"), Franklyn Fox (as "Christopher Dickson"), Anna Franklin (as "Minnie Mae"), Norman Lloyd (as "Sandy"), Kay Loring (as "Jane Brennan"), Mary Sargent (as "Mrs. Jackson"), Joseph Tsho (as "Shih Li"), Roland Young (as "Harold Jackson"). Produced by Alfred De Liagre Jr.
- (1948) Stage Play: The Silver Whistle. Comedy.
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