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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fredric March (1926)
Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel, 1897–1975) became one of the most honored actors of Hollywood’s golden age, and one of only two performers ever to win both the […]
Florence Eldridge (1925)
Florence Eldridge was a powerhouse American stage and screen actress whose career stretched across five decades, marked by her intelligence, emotional depth, and commanding presence. Born in 1901, she became […]
Helen Menken (1922)
Helen Menken first appeared at Elitch during the summer of 1922. Following the season, she was cast in the Broadway long-running play, Seventh Heaven. John Mulvihill had contacted her prior […]
Lewis Stone (1913)
In the early-1900s Lewis Stone was considered by the critics to be the most popular leading man in stock in America at that time. For eight years, he held the […]