Walter Pidgeon (1964)
Walter Pidgeon agreed to come to Elitch for this 1964 season to perform in Take Her, She’s Mine only after Miss Bonfils and Connor convinced him that Denver’s mile-high altitude […]
Milton Sills (1912)
“Milton Sills, one of the most charming young men I ever knew, came as my leading man, and Louise Woods as leading lady, for a limited engagement. Their first presentation […]
Donald Cook (1930)
Donald Cook made his Broadway debut in 1926 as Donn Cook, and was billed as Donn Cook at Elitch during this season. During the 1930 engagement at Elitch, Cook met […]
Blanche Walsh (1901)
In 1901 Walsh did a four-week engagement at the Elitch Theatre. She opened in Under Two Flags, the dramatization of Ouida’s novel by Denverite, Edward Elsner. The biographer of Mary […]
1930
On January 14, 1930, John M Mulvihill passed away at his home in Denver at 4209 W. 38th Avenue. In the Denver Post “A Tribute of Appreciation” was presented in […]
George Brent (1929)
Before he made 11 films with Bette Davis, a young 25-year-old George Brent appeared in the 1929 summer stock cast at the Historic Elitch Theatre. After his summer at the […]
Isobel Elsom (1928)
Isobel Elsom appeared as the leading lady for the Elitch season of 1928. At Elitch, she appeared in the role she created in the play The Outsider earlier that year […]
1929
Henrietta Crosman returned to Elitch Theatre with her own company and appeared in several preseason plays, namely, As You Like It, Sword of the King and Mistress Nell. She had […]
Lea Penman (1917)
Born on October 4th, 1895 in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Married George Treadwell Herbert on December 28, 1918 in Denver. Later married Clyde Fillmore (aka: Clyde Fogle) on December 06, 1924 […]
1928
Among the twelve plays of the season were Fritz Gottwald’s The Command to Love, which sparked some controversy among the theatergoers, and Arthur Wing Pinero’s The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, which […]