Ben-Hur
Contributors: Niblo, Fred, 1874-1948; Mayer, Louis B. (Louis Burt), 1885-1957; Goldwyn, Samuel, 1879-1974; Mathis, June, 1892-1927; Bowes, Edward, Major, 1874-1946; Mendoza, David, 1894-1975; Axt, William, 1882-1959; Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; New National Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1927
Language: eng
Other titles: Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1925)
Description: New National Theatre, direction W.H. Rapley, business management S.E. Cochran. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents "Ben-Hur," by General Lew Wallace, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in arrangement with Abraham L. Erlanger, Charles B. Dillingham and Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., from the novel published and copyrighted by Harper and Brothers. Directed by Fred Niblo, adaptation by June Mathis, produced from the scenario of Carey Wilson, continuity by Carey Wilson and Bess Meredith. Mr. Niblo's directorial associates: Alfred L. Raboch and Reeves Eason. Photography by Rene Guissart, Karl Struss, Percy Hilburn, and Clyde De Vinna. Art effects by Ferdinand P. Earle, titles by Katherine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell, film editor, Lloyd Nosler, assistant director Charles Stallings. Costumes by Theaterkunst Hermann J. Kaufmann, Berlin. Stage presentation and musical score by Major Edward Bowes, David Mendoza and William Axt.
Notes: New National Theatre [Washington, D.C.], last week beginning Sunday matinee, 3 p.m., April 17, 1927. Twice daily thereafter, 2:30 and 8:30. Final performance Saturday night, April 23rd.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Claire McDowell, Kathleen Key, Carmel Myers, Nigel de Brulier, Mitchell Lewis, Leo White, Frank Currier, Charles Belcher, Dale Fuller, Winter Hall.

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