Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Contributors: Gordon, Max, 1892-1978; Cromwell, John, 1888-1979; Jones, Grover, 1893-1940; Sherwood, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1896-1955; Foreman, Carolyn Thomas, b. 1875, donor; RKO Radio Pictures; Newspaper Women's Club of Washington; Children's Hospital (Washington, D.C.); B. F. Keith's Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Playwrights' Company; Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1940
Language: eng
Subjects: Drama; Benefit performances
Other titles: Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Motion picture)
Description: The Newspaper Women's Club of Washington through the courtesy of RKO Radio Pictures has the honor to present "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" to support the Club's bed in Children's Hospital and for the Fellowship Fund of the Newspaper Women's Club. The City of Washington fittingly has been selected for the world premiere engagement of the motion picutre ot the sensationally acclaimed hit, Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer prize play "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," with Raymond Massey. The producing staff: Produced by Max Gordon, directed by John Cromwell, screen play by Robert E. Sherwood, adaptation by Grover Jones based on the Pulitzer Prize play produced by the Playwrights' Company. Musical score by Roy Webb, director of photography, James Wong Howe, A.S.C., specail effects by Vernon L. Walker, A.S.C., art director, Van Nest Polglase,  art associate, Carroll Clark, set decorations by Casey Roberts, wardrobe by Walter Plunkett, montage by Douglas Travers, edited by George Hively, assistant director Dewey Starkey, dance director, David Robel. RKO Radio picture.
Notes: RKO Keith's Theatre, Washington, D.C., Monday evening, January 22, 1940.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard, Dorothy Tree, Harvey Stephens, Minor Watson, Alan Baxter, Howard da Silva, Maurice Murphy, Clem Bevans, Herbert Rudley, Roger Imhoff, Edmund Elton, George Rosener, Trevor Bardette, Elisabeth Risdon, Napoleon Simpson, Aldrich Bowker, Louis Jean Heydt, Harlan Briggs, Andy Clyde, Leona Roberts, Florence Roberts, Fay Helm, Syd Saylor, Charles Middleton, Alec Craig.

Chairman of the benefit: Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Helene Livingston Kravadze, Mrs. Cordell Hull, Marie McNair, Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, Mrs. Atherton Macondray, Katharine Brooks, Margaret Germond, Alice Eversman, Marie Watts, Jackie Martin, Ann Marshall, Harriet Ventress Heald, Elisabeth Ellicott Poe, Anne Graham.

The Newspaper Women's Club of Washington Honorary members: Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Washington, D.C., Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Northampton, Mass, Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Palo Alto, Cal. Honorary president: Kate Scott Brooks.

LC copy: Gift: Mrs. Grant Foreman, October 6, 1942.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).