Patricia Neal (1947)

Arnold Gurtler chose Patricia Neal and Peter Cookson as the leads. Donald Woods was engaged to play the lead in the final play of the season, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, […]

Anne Kimbell (1956)

Portrait of Anne Kimbell.

Kimbell was best known to Broadway at the time for her starring role in The Seven Year Itch with Eddie Bracken and her national tour in the same play. She […]

Pat O’Brien (1980)

Referred to as “Hollywood’s Irishman in Residence,” actor Pat O’Brien should be a familiar face if you’ve watched the classics from the 1930s and 1940s. He appeared at the Historic […]

Cora Witherspoon (1926)

Cora Witherspoon

Cora Witherspoon (January 5, 1890 – November 17, 1957) was an American stage and film character actress whose career spanned nearly half a century. She began in theatre where she […]

Myrna Loy (1967)

1967 - Myrna Loy

With a pert face, crinkly smile and velvet voice, the auburn-haired actress was universally called the “perfect wife.” Spunky, unflappable and appropriately cool or warm, she was the ideal marital […]

LaTanya Richardson (1976)

LaTanya Richardson appeared at the Elitch Theatre in 1976 in Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. A short time before, while attending Spelman College in 1970, she met actor Samuel L. Jackson, then […]

Ernest Truex (1903)

Ernest Truex appeared at Elitch as a member of the supporting cast in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, which featured Tyrone Power and Edith Crane. Truex was born in Rich Hill, Missouri in 1889, […]

Debbie Reynolds (1970)

1986 - Debbie Reynolds

For her 1986 appearance at the theatre, Debbie Reynolds was joined in The Debbie Reynolds Show by Harve Presnell, who co-starred with her in the film The Unsinkable Molly Brown. […]

Mary Jackson (1962)

Mary Jackson has appeared on Broadway in such hits as “Kiss and Tell” and “Eastward in Eden,” was standby for Wendy Hiller in “Flowering Cherry” on Broadway, played the role […]

Aubrey Boucicault (1903)

Aubrey Boucicault

Aubrey Boucicault (23 June 1868 or ’69 – 10 July 1913) was a British born stage actor, playwright and matinee idol. He came from a famous family of actors and […]

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