PlayOriginalBroadway
Opening Date
Nov 06, 1935
Closing Date
Feb 1936
Performances
108
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ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION

Theatres
Broadhurst Theatre
(Nov 06, 1935 - Nov 29, 1935)
Civic Repertory Theatre
(Dec 01, 1935 - Feb 1936)
Setting
The McClure cabin in the Carolina Mountains; Receiving office of the Wentworth Mills, Leesville; Outside the Weave Room; The Union Hall.
Produced by Albert Bein and Jack Goldsmith
Written by Albert Bein; From the novel "To Make My Bread" by Grace Lumpkin
Staged by C. Worthington Miner
Scenic Design by Mordecai Gorelik; Costume Design by Eva Rapoport
Company Manager: Zelda Dorfman
Production Manager: Charles Friedman; Stage Manager: Leslie Urbach; Assistant Stage Mgr: Douglas Parkhurst
Press Representative: Martha Dreiblatt; Assistant Press Representative: George Ammerman
Richard Allen
Millhand
Patricia Barker
Lou
Paula Bauersmith
Emma Martin
Roger Blankenship
Deputy
Isabel Bonner
Bessie
Aldrich Bowker
Chester Wentworth
Dorothy Brackett
Sally Martin
Hubert Brown
Henry Brickhouse
Eric Burroughs
A Representative
Norma Chambers
Ora McClure
James Clairington
Millhand
Edwin Cooper
Paul Randolph
Alvin Dexter
Victor Burnett
Charles Dingle
Sheriff Cole
Lew Eckels
Jim Hawkins
Tom Ewell
Small Hardy
a peddler
 
Young Frank Martin at 21
Elvin Field
Dan
Will Geer
John Kirkland
Grandpap
Toni Gilman
Mill Worker's Child
Dean Jenks
Sam
Roy Johnson
Millhand
Philip Jones
An Intern
Charles Jordan
Ed Allen
Rose Keane
Minnie Hawkins
Fred Knight
Tom Stevens
Charles Kuhn
An Old Man
Michael Lettice
Millhand
Herbert Levin
Millhand
June Meier
Minnie Martin
John O'Shaughnessy
A Representative
Douglas Parkhurst
An Office Boy
Mary Perry
Marge
Shirley Poirier
Florrie
Robert Porterfield
Jesse MacDonald
Robert Reed
Bill
Edward Ryan, Jr.
John McClure as a Boy
Bigelow Sayre
George
Garland F. Smith
Timothy O'Doul
Leslie Stafford
Bonnie McClure
Will Sterling
Millhand
Lucille Strudwick
Sara
Shepperd Strudwick
John McClure
George Oliver Taylor
Frazer MacDonald
Robert Thomsen
Basil McClure
William Triest
Millhand
Willson Tuttle
Millhand
Frank Tweddell
Frank Martin
Eric Walz
Millhand
Herta Ware
Mary
Booth Whitfield
Deputy
Norman Williams
Young Frank Martin at 13
Robert B. Williams
Kirk McClure

Broadhurst Theatre (Nov 06, 1935 - Nov 29, 1935)

Civic Repertory Theatre (Dec 01, 1935 - Feb 1936)

Produced by The Theatre Union

Cast

Roger Blankenship
An Old Man
 
Millhand
 
Minnie Hawkins
Robert Hayes
Salilster Wilson
George James
Another Representative
Dean Jenks
Young Frank Martin at 13
James Morgan
Perry
a clerk
John O'Shaughnessy
Tom Stevens
Robert Reed
George
Eddie Ryan
John McClure as a Boy
James Shelburne
Frank Martin
Garland F. Smith
Perry
a clerk
 
An Old Man
 
A Representative
Will Sterling
Young Frank Martin at 21
Robert Thomsen
John McClure
Eric Walz
Basil McClure
Herta Ware
Bessie
Booth Whitfield
A Representative
 
Timothy O'Doul
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