- (1906 - 1926) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1906) Stage Play: The Judge and Jury. Drama. Written by Harry D. Cottrell and Oliver Morosco [earliest Broadway credit]. Directed by Oliver Morosco. Wallack's Theatre: 1 Sep 1906- Sep 1906 (closing date unknown/17 performances). Cast: George Archibald, Ida Conquest, Del De Louis, William Desmond, Sam Edwards, Jules Ferrar, Margaret Fuller, H.J. Ginn, Henrietta Goodman, Louis Haines, Walter Hale, George Harcourt, Rose King, Harry Lewellyn, Sidney C. Mather, Guy Nichols, Bennett Southard, May Stockton, Sadie Stringham, Julien Tannen. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1906) Stage Play: A Southern Vendetta. Melodrama.
- (1912) Stage Play: The Bird of Paradise. Written by Richard Walton Tully. Featuring songs by Sylvester Kalama and Kapule Kanoa. Directed by Richard Walton Tully. Daly's Theatre (moved to Maxine Elliott's Theatre from 22 Jan 1912- close): 8 Jan 1912- 13 Apr 1912 (112 performances). Cast: Laurette Taylor (as "Luana, a Hawaiian girl"), W.B. Aeko (as "Lanipule, a cane-cutter"), Estar Banks (as "Mrs. Sysonby, Sysonby's wife"), Gladys Byers (as "Miss Kennedy, a débutante"), Nance Caldwell (as "Konia, a woman of the old days"), W.J. Constantine (as "Mr. Sysonby, the missionary"), Clyde Crawford (as "Tomoro, a Japanese"), Herbert Farjeon (as "Kaia, a poi maker"), Pamela Gaythorne (as "Diana Larned, a university graduate"), Robert Harrison (as "Hoheno, a fisherman"), S.M. Kaiawe (as "Naihe, a cane-cutter"), A. Kawala (as "Kuakini, a cane-cutter"), Nona Kelly (as "Hopoe, a hula dancer"), W.K. Kolomoku (as "Kanoa, a cane-cutter"), Jane Meredith (as "Makia, a convert"), Craig Miner (as "Mr. Jameson, of the Sugar Company"), Margaret Nagele (as "Mrs. Crothers, a widow"), Albert Perry (as "Hewahewa, a priest of Pele"), Guy Bates Post (as "Dean, a beachcomber"), Virginia Reynolds (as "Liliha, a hula dancer"), Theodore Roberts (as "Captain Hatch, a planter"), Lewis Stone (as "Paul Wilson, a young doctor") [Broadway debut], Van Renseler Townsend [credited as Van Rensselaer Townsend] (as "Lemule, a graduate"), Lenore Ulric, B. Waiwaiole (as "Kapule, a cane-cutter"), Ida Waterman (as "Mahumahu, Luana's foster mother"). Produced by Oliver Morosco. Note: Filmed by RKO as Bird of Paradise (1932) and as Bird of Paradise (1951) by 20th Century Fox.
- (1912) Stage Play: The Truth Wagon. Written by Hayden Talbot. Daly's Theatre (moved to The Bijou Theatre from 11 Mar 1912- close): 26 Feb 1912- Apr 1912 (closing date unknown/40 performances). Cast: Edwin Arden, Charles Dow Clark, Max Figman, Alexander Leftwich, George E. Mack [credited as Georgie Mack], Harry Mestayer, Norma Mitchell, Frank Sheridan, Muriel Starr, Wayland Trask, Antoinette Walker, Lucile Watson, James Wilson. Produced by Oliver Morosco. Note: Filmed by Masterpiece Film Mfg. Co. [distributed by Alliance] as The Truth Wagon (1914), directed and starring Max Figman.
- (1912) Stage Play: Peg O' My Heart. Comedy. Written by J. Hartley Manners. Directed by J. Hartley Manners. Cort Theatre: 20 Dec 1912- May 1914 (closing date unknown/603 performances). Cast: Laurette Taylor (as "Peg"), Peter Bassett (as "Footman"), Ruth Garland (as "Maud"), Clarence Handyside, 'Reginald Mason (I)' (as "Christian Brant"), Emilie Melville, Christine Norman, H. Reeves-Smith (as "Jerry"), Hassard Short (as Alaric"). Produced by Oliver Morosco. Note: Filmed by Metro Pictures Corp. as Peg o' My Heart (1922).
- (1918) Stage: Produced "Watch Your Neighbor" on Broadway. Written by Leon Gordon (also in cast) and LeRoy Clemens (also in cast). Booth Theatre: 2 Sep 1918-Oct 1918 (closing date unknown/48 performances). Cast: Edward Colebrook, John De Briac, Fred Esmelton [final Broadway role], Charles Fisher, Ruby Hallier, Stanley Harrison, Emil Hoch, Alexander Loftus, Bertram Marburgh, Dodson Mitchell, Gerald Pring, Dore Rogers, Mary Servoss, Harold Vosburgh.
- (1925) Stage: Directed / produced"His Queen" on Broadway. Written by John Hastings Turner. Hudson Theatre: 11 May 1925-May 1925 (closing date unknown/11 performances). Cast: Charles Brown (as "James Gaut"), Minnie Dupree (as "Jane Roper"), Edward Emery (as "Adeimon"), Lumsden Hare (as "Athrike Takarpoulos"), Frank Hubert (as "Rev. Walter Prendergast"), Francine Larrimore (as "Maria Avilon"), Margot Lester (as "Stockie"), Francis X. Malloy (as "A Young Man"), Betty Nye (as "Teenie Clawson"), Marion Vantine (as "Countess Phryne Eumaros"), Robert Warwick (as "Thales"), Harold West (as "Dick Coleby").
- (1916) Stage: Appeared in (as "Harry Miller"; Broadway debut) / wrote (w/Elmer Harris) material for / directed / produced "So Long Letty" on Broadway. Musical/farce. Music and lyrics by Earl Carroll. Musical Direction by Harry James. Musical Staging by Julian Alfred. Shubert Theatre: 23 Oct 1916-13 Jan 1917 (96 performances). Cast: Charlotte Greenwood (as "Letty Robbins"), Roy Adams, Margaret App, Winnie Baldwin, Kay Beach, Jack Birkson, May Boley, Percy Bronson, Betty Calais, Robert Calley, Dorothy Cameron, Frances Cameron, Madeline Cameron, Jennie Cannar, Marie Cattell, Pauline De Lorme, Vera Doria, Hazel Ellsworth, Florence Flandreaux, Grover Frankne, Sydney Grant, Muriel Griel, Murray Lavone, Frank Leslie, Ben Linn, William McGuire, Vera Mercer, Margaret Moll, Frank O'Neil, Betty Parker, Gertrude Reynolds, Jessie Reynolds, Wesley Spears, Jack Wells, Ethel Westie.
- (1917) Stage: Wrote (w/Elmer Harris) material for / directed / produced "Canary Cottage" on Broadway. Musical/farce. Music and lyrics by Earl Carroll. Musical Direction by Alfred Goodman. Morosco Theatre: 5 Feb 1917-12 May 1917 (112 performances). Cast: Nan Baker, Edward Bolles, Babette Busey, Hugh Cameron, Herbert Corthell, Deney Davidson, Reine Davies, Grace Ellsworth, Ergotti Lilliputians, Trixie Friganza, Elsie Gordon, Barbara Guillan, Helen Higgins, Edwin Loweree, Christine Malcolm, Olga Marwig, Carl McCullough, Louis Natheaux, Charles Newton, Jessie Pollard, Arthur Price, Hazel Purdy, Ruth Reavis, Jack Rogers, Charles Ruggles (as "Jerry Summerfield"), Virginia Tavares, William Taylor, Melissa Ten Eyck, Marion Thompson, Dorothy Webb, Max Weily, Roy Wissing.
- (1921) Stage Play: Wrote lyrics for / directed (w/John McKee) / produced "Love Dreams" on Broadway. Musical melodrama. Material adaption by Anne Nichols. Music by Werner Janssen. Musical Director: Mario Agnolucci. Times Square Theatre (moved to The Apollo Theatre from 17 Oct 1921 to close): 10 Oct 1921- 12 Nov 1921 (40 performances). Cast: Amelia Allen, Marie Carroll, Grace Culvert, Maude Eburne, Grace Elliott, Charmine Essley, Maurice Holland, 'Orrin Johnson' (as "Dr. Duncan Pell"), Maude Lydiate, Pauline Maxwell, Vera Michelena, Harry K. Morton, Irene Novotney, Ann Pauley, Tom Powers, Jean Warner, Charles H Yorkshire.
- (1920) Stage: Produced "Marry the Poor Girl" on Broadway. Comedy/farce. Written by Owen Davis. Directed by Priestly Morrison. Little Theatre: 25 Sep 1920-Oct 1920 (closing date unknown/18 performances). Cast: Frank Allworth (as "Tom Harrison"), Wilbur Braun (as "Morgan"), Ninita Bristow (as "Ann Winsted"), Halbert Brown (as "Wallace Paddington"), William David (as "Steve Ripley"), Harold De Becker (as "Bradley Littlefield"), Stapleton Kent (as "Rev. Carlton Gibbs"), Isabelle Lowe (as "Julia Paddington"), Gertrude Maitland (as "Mrs. Paddington"), Frances Mann (as "Kittie Porter"), Beatrice Noyes (as "Rose Gary"), Maude O'Connor (as "Sara Grogan"), William Roselle (as "Jack Tanner").
- (1917) Stage: Directed (w/Franklin Underwood) / produced "The Brat" on Broadway. Written by Maude Fulton. Harris Theatre: 5 Mar 1917-Jul 1917 (closing date unknown/136 performances). Cast: John Findlay, Maude Fulton, Charlotte Ives, Frank Kingdon, Edmund Lowe [Broadway debut], Gertrude Maitland [Broadway debut], Isabel O'Madigan, Lewis Stone, Gertrude Workman. NOTE: Filmed as The Brat (1919).
- (1906) Playwright: "Half-Breed: A Tale of Indian Territory" (filmed as The Half Breed (1922))
- (19??) Stage: Produced / directed "The Tik-Tok Man of Oz". Book and lyrics by L. Frank Baum, music by Louis F. Gottschalk. Cast: James C. Morton (as "Tik-Tok"), Frank Moore (as "The Shaggy Man"), Fred Woodward (as "Hank the Mule"), Lenora Nova (as "Betsy Bobbin"), Josie Intropedi (as "Queen Ann Soforth"), Dolly Castles (as "Polychrome"), Vera Doria (as "Ozma" [Ozga, in the novel[), Charles Ruggles (as "Pvt. Files, and others").
- (1917) Stage Play: The Fugitive. Written by John Galsworthy. 39th Street Theatre: 19 Mar 1917- May 1917 (closing date unknown/56 performances). Cast: William 'Stage' Boyd, Edward Emery, Charlotte Granville, Charles Harbury, Walter Howe, Annie Hughes, Alice John, Thomas MacLarnie, Duncan McRae, Milton Pope, Ethel Stanard, Emily Stevens, Conway Tearle, Percival Vivian, Henry Warwick, Roger P. Williams. Produced by Oliver Morosco.
- (1916) Stage Play: Mile-a-Minute Kendall. Written by Owen Davis. Lyceum Theatre: 28 Nov 1916- unknown (47 performances). Cast: Adele Blood, Hobart Cavanaugh [Broadway debut], Jack Ellis, John Flood, Joseph Kilgour, Helen Lowell, Edythe Lyle, Burr McIntosh, Beatrice Noyes, Olive Oliver, William Sampson, Tom Powers. Produced by Oliver Morosco.
- (1919) Stage Play: Linger Longer Letty. Musical comedy. Music by Alfred Goodman. Book by Anne Nichols. Lyrics by Bernard Grosman. Musical Director: Alfred Goodman. Featuring songs with lyrics by Oliver Morosco and George Yoerger. Featuring songs by W. FrischMusical Staging by William H. Smith. Production Supervised and Directed by Oliver MoroscoFulton Theatre: 20 Nov 1919- 21 Jan 1920 (69 performances). Cast: Harold Abbey (as "Ensemble"), Faith Belmont (as "Ensemble"), France Bendsten (as "Lazelle"), Vera Bradley (as "Ensemble"), Frank Brooks (as "Ensemble"), Halcyon Chambers (as "Ensemble"), Marjorie Clements (as "Ensemble"), Robert Cowles (as "Ensemble"), Dora Duby (as "Ensemble"), Oscar Brimberton Figman (as "Father"), Ann Greenway (as "Ensemble"), Charlotte Greenwood (as "Letty"), Jack Grieves (as "Ensemble"), Arthur Hartley (as "Walter"), Eleanor Henry (as "Nancy"), Bernice Hirsch (as "Ethelmay"), Ethel Hobart (as "Ensemble"), Sadie Howe (as "Ensemble"), Olin Howland (as "Jim"), Margaret Kearns (as "Ensemble"), Alice Knowlton (as "Ensemble"), Virginia Lancier (as "Ensemble"), Myra Lane (as "Ensemble"), Marjorie McClintock (as "Juliet"), Louise Mink (as "Mrs. Brewster"), Edna Renard (as "Ensemble"), Cyril Ring (as "Colonel"), Olga Roller (as "Mayme"), Boris Scott (as "Ensemble"), Margaret Severn (as "Specialty Dancer"), Mary Shepard (as "Ensemble"), Helen Trainer (as "Ensemble"), Virginia Travares (as "Marie"), Frances Victory (as "Roberta"), Marjorie Wall (as "Ensemble"), Eva Warrington (as "Ensemble"), Polly Watkins (as "Ensemble"), Roule Wilder (as "Ensemble"), Harold Williams (as "Ensemble"). Produced by Oliver Morosco.
- (1922) Stage Play: Letty Pepper. Musical comedy. Book by Oliver Morosco and George V. Hobart. Music by Werner Janssen. Based on the comedy "Maggie Pepper" by Charles Klein [posthumous credit]. Lyrics by Leo Wood and Irving Bibo. Musical Director: Harry James. Music orchestrated by Frank E. Barry. Musical Staging by Julian Alfred. Directed by George V. Hobart. Vanderbilt Theatre: 10 Apr 1922- 6 May 1922 (32 performances). Cast: William Balfour (as "Mack"), Florence Barry (as "Chorus"), Hallam Bosworth (as "Hutchinson"), Paul Burns (as "Abe Greenbaum"), Dorothy Clark (as "Chorus"), Delphine Deery (as "Chorus"), Charline Essley (as "Chorus"), Master Gabriel (as "Billy"), Charlotte Greenwood (as "Letty Pepper"), Vera Hellaire (as "Carolie Van Ness"), Lillian Hoffman (as "Chorus"), Phyllis Hooper (as "Chorus"), Josie Intropodi (as "Mrs. Hatch"), Jane King (as "Hattie"), Mary King (as "Imogene"), Olive King (as "Chorus"), Margaret Leonia (as "Chorus"), May Mixon (as "Chorus"), Myrtle Murray (as "Chorus"), Beth Ormby (as "Chorus"), Ray Raymond (as "Joseph Colby"), Effie Shelley (as "Chorus"), Charlotte Starbuck (as "Chorus"), Emily Stead (as "Chorus"), Lispa Taft (as "Chorus"), Virginia Taylor (as "Chorus"), Frances Victory (as "Margery"), Thomas Walsh (as "James Van Ness"), Claire Wegmen (as "Chorus"), Jean Wegmen (as "Chorus"), Stewart Wilson (as "Tony Barrillobatso"). Produced by Oliver Morosco.
- (1923) Stage Play: Mike Angelo. Written by Edward Locke. Directed by Clifford Brooke. Morosco Theatre: 8 Jan 1923- Feb 1923 (closing date unknown/13 performances). Cast: Byron Beasley (as "Peter Smith"), Leo Carrillo (as "Mike Angelo"), Wanda Lyon (as "Annabelle Carlton"), 'Dorothy MacKaye' (as "Carlotta Swift"), Adrian H. Rosely (as "Mischa Tarkoff"), Gerald Oliver Smith (as "Tommy Sloane"), Grant Stewart (as "Newton Carlton"), Robert Strange (as "Ivan Smirnoff"). Produced by Oliver Morosco.
- (1916) Stage Play: Upstairs and Down. Written by Fanny Hatton and Frederic Hatton. Cort Theatre: 25 Sep 1916- Jul 1917 (closing date unknown/320 performances). Cast: Roberta Arnold, Orlando Daly, Juliette Day, Arthur Elliott, Courtenay Foote, Adoni Fovieri, Paul Harvey, Alfred Hesse, William MacDonald, Christine Norman, Mary Servoss, Ida St. Leon, Fred Tiden. Produced by Oliver Morosco. Note: Filmed by Selznick Pictures Corporation [distributed by Select Pictures Corporation as A Star Series Attraction] as Upstairs and Down (1919).
- (1917) Stage Play: Lombardi, Ltd. Written by Frederic Hatton and Fanny Hatton. Morosco Theatre: 24 Sep 1917- Jun 1918 (296 performances). Cast: Marion Abbott (as "Millie McNeal"), Warner Baxter (as "Riccardo Tosello") [only Broadway role], Hallam Bosworth (as "James Hodgkins"), Winifred Bryson (as "Muriel"), Leo Carrillo (as "Tito Lombardi"), Janet Dunbar (as "Norah Blake"), Maude Gilbert (as "Lida Moore"), Charles Hammond (as "Robert Tarrant"), Judy Harris (as "Yvette"), Sue MacManamy (as "Phyllis Manning"), Carrington North (as "Miss Curran"), Mary Robinson (as "An Errand Girl"), Ina Rorke (as "Mrs. Warrington Brown"), Harold Russell (as "Max Strohm"), Ruth Terry (as "Eloise"), Grace Valentine (as "Daisy"), Percival Vivian (as "An Expressman"). Produced by Oliver Morosco. Note: Filmed by Screen Classics Inc. [distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation] as Lombardi, Ltd. (1919).
- (1918) Stage Play: The Love Mill. Musical comedy. Music by Alfred Francis. Book adapted by Earl Carroll. Lyrics by Earl Carroll. Based on the German farce by Heinrich Stobitzer and Envel. Musical Direction by Louis Kroll. Scenic Design by Joseph A. Physioc. Directed by Mack Whiting. 48th Street Theatre: 7 Feb 1918- 23 Mar 1918 (52 performances). Cast: Adrienne Allen, Joseph Bennett, Helen Borden, Daisy Burton, Pauline Carlton, Addie Clark, Valerie Clark, Dorothy Clay, Eileen Clinton, Cortez and Peggy, Lillian Daley, Deney Davidson, William Deacon, Adele Fielder, Frances Fielder, Grace Fisher, F.H. Hagenmeyer, Tessie Hammer, Irene Hayes, Fred Jones, Emilie Lea, Jeanette Lowrie, Gertrude Mansfield, Carrie McManus, Vera Meyers, Joe E. Miller, Victor Morley (as "William King"), G.L. Mortimer, Clarence Nordstrom (as "Tom Morris") [Broadway debut], Margaret Derden Philpott, Yolande Presbury, Edward Richards, Al Roberts, George Ross, Juliet Strahl, Harry Tighe. Produced by Andreas Dippel and Oliver Morosco.
- (1918) Stage Play: The Walk-offs. Comedy. Written by Frederic Hatton and Fanny Hatton. Morosco Theatre: 17 Sep 1918- Nov 1918 (closing date unknown/31 performances). Cast: Roberta Arnold, Elmer Ballard, Edmund Lowe, Fania Marinoff, Carroll McComas, Percival T. Moore, William Roselle, Emmett Shackelford, Charles A. Stevenson, Fred Tiden [credited as Fred L. Tiden], Janet Travers, Frances Underwood. Produced by Oliver Morosco. Note: Filmed by Screen Classics Inc. [distributed by Metro Pictures Corp.] as The Walk-Offs (1920).
- (1914) Stage Play: The Pretty Mrs. Smith. Musical comedy. Book by Oliver Morosco and Elmer Harris. Music by Henry James and Alfred G. Robyn. Lyrics by Earl Carroll. Musical Director: John Lund. Additional music by Billy Gould, Ashlyn and Sydney Grant. Additional lyrics by Billy Gould, Ashlyn and Sydney Grant. Directed by T. Daniel Frawley. Casino Theatre: 21 Sep 1914- 31 Oct 1914 (48 performances). Cast: Theodore Babcock (as "Ferdinand Smith"), Daisy Burton (as "Mrs. Tom Wilson"), J.H. Childs (as "Paul Hunter/Morosco California Quartette"), Louise Cook (as "Miss Helen Partington"), Marie De Marquis (as "Miss Phoebe Snow"), Claude Flemming (as "Frank Smith"), James Gleason [credited as James A. Gleason] (as "George") [Broadway debut], Sydney Grant (as "Bobby Jones"), Charlotte Greenwood (as "Letititia Proudfoot"), Mlle. Marcelle (as "Henriette"), Dolores Parquette (as "Miss Prudence Morris"), Harold Proctor (as "Hal Dorsey/Morosco California Quartette"), Charles Purcell (as "Forest Smith"), J. Richard Ryan (as "Tim Wilson/Morosco California Quartette"), Fritzi Scheff (as "Drucilla Smith"), Grace Shaw (as "Mrs. Marian Dalzell"), Lillian Tucker (as "Myrtle Adair"), J. Van Ryan (as "Morosco California Quartette"), Dick Potter, Ocie Williams (as "Mrs. Waldemar Hayes"). Produced by Oliver Morosco.
- (1923) Stage Play: The Sporting Thing To Do. Comedy. Written by Thompson Buchanan. Directed by Oliver Morosco and Clifford Brooke. Ritz Theatre: 19 Feb 1923- Mar 1923 (closing date unknown/40 performances). Cast: James K. Applebee (as "Rev. Dr. Clegg"), Bertha Belmore (as "Mrs. Suzanne Clegg"), William 'Stage' Boyd (as "Jack Thornton"), Walker Dennett (as "Colonel Thornton"), Mary Fisher (as "Miss Simpson"), Robert Hudson Thomas Kennedy"), Clara Joel (as "Eleanor Ainsworth"), Della Johnson (as "Mandy"), Jack Raffael (as "Judge McLean"), H. Reeves-Smith (as "Jim Loundsbury"), Emily Stevens (as "Jean Thornton"), Ethel Winthrop (as "Mrs. Thornton") [final Broadway role]. Produced by Oliver Morosco.
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