Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (play)
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Gentleman Prefer Blondes is a 1926 play by Anita Loos and John Emerson, based upon Loos' 1925 international best-selling novel of the same name.
In 1925 Loos published the novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady, a comic novel. By the end of the year, there was discussion that the novel would be made into a play.[1][2] The play was produced by Edgar Selwyn.[3] The play premiered in Detroit on April 28, 1926, at the Shubert-Detroit.[4] It opened in Chicago on May 2, 1926, at the Selwyn Theatre, and was received positively by the Chicago Tribune.[5] The play opened on Broadway at the Selwyn Theatre,[6] on Tuesday, September 26, 1926, closing at Times Square Theatre.[7]
Cast
Broadway opening night cast:[8])
- Katherine Brook as Miss Chapman
- Grace Burgess as Lulu
- Grace Cornell as Ann Spoffard
- Roy Gorham as William Gwynn
- Grace Hampton as Lady Beekman
- William T. Hays as Old Spoffard
- Edna Hibbard as Dorothy Shaw
- Bruce Huntley as H. Gilbertson Montrose
- G.P. Huntley as Sir Francis Beekman
- Mrs. Jacques Martin as Mrs. Spoffard
- Frank Morgan as Henry Spoffard
- Edwina Prue as Dickie
- Vivian Purcell as Connie
- Ruth Raymonde as Gloria Atwell
- Georges Romain as Robert Broussard
- Adrian Rosely as Louis Broussard
- Arthur S. Ross as Gus Eisman
- Harold Thomas as Harry
- June Walker as Lorelei Lee
- Daniel Wolf as Leon