Theater Hall of Fame
Contributors: Theater Hall of Fame (New York, N.Y.); Uris Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1972
Language: eng
Description: "Theater Hall of Fame," first group to be honored by the Theater Hall of Fame, the Theater Hall of Fame was created to honor those who have made outstanding contributions to the New York Theater. Members are elected annually by the Nation's Drama Critics and Drama Editors. To be eligible a notable must have had a career spanning 25 years on Broadway and with more than five major credits. Executive committee: Ralph Alswang, Earl Blackwell, Frederick Brisson, Brendan Gill, Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein II, Radie Harris, Helen Hayes, Paula Lawrence, Joshua Logan, Anita Loos, Clare Boothe Luce, Joseph Papp, George M. Steinbrenner III, Roger L. Stevens, L. Arnold Weissberger, John F. Warton.
Notes: Uris Theatre, opening night, November 19, 1972.

Title devised by Library staff.

"Playbill magazine"--Cover.

Includes introductory essay "Theater's Pantheon," by Earl Blackwell.

First group honorees: George Abbott, Maude Adams, Viola Allen, Judith Anderson, Maxwell Anderson, Margaret Anglin, George Arliss, Fred & Adele Astaire, Brooks Atkinson, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Nora Bayes, David Belasco, Norman Bel Geddes, Richard Bennett, Irving Berlin, Sarah Bernhardt, Edwin Booth, Alice Brady, Fannie Brice, Billie Burke, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Eddie Cantor, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Ruth Chatterton, Ina Claire, George M. Cohan, Constance Collier, Katharine Cornell, Noel Coward, Jane Cowl, Charlotte Cushman, Augustin Daly, Marie Dressler, John Drew, Eleanora Duse, Jeanne Eagels, W.C. Fields, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Clyde Fitch, Lynn Fontanne, Edwin Forrest, Rudolf Friml, Charles Frohman, Grace George, George & Ira Gershwin, William Gillette, Ruth Gordon, Charlotte Greenwood, Oscar Hammerstein II, Walter Hampden, Lorenz Hart, Moss Hart, Helen Hayes, Victor Herbert, Raymond Hitchock, Arthur Hopkins, De Wolf Hopper, Willie & Eugene Howard, Henry Hull, Walter Huston, Elsie Janis, Joseph Jefferson, Al Jolson, Robert Edmond Jones, George S. Kaufman, Jerome Kern, Bert Lahr, Gertrude Lawrence, Eva Le Gallienne, Beatrice Lillie, Howard Lindsay, Pauline Lord, Alfred Lunt, Richard Mansfield, Robert B. Mantell, Fredric March, Julia Marlowe, Helen Menken, Ethel Merman, Henry Miller, Marilyn Miller, Helena Modjeska, Ferenc Molnar, Victor Moore, Nazimova, Clifford Odets, Eugene O'Neill, Cole Porter, Ada Rehan, Paul Robeson, Richard Rodgers, Will Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg, Lillian Russell, Robert E. Sherwood, Lee & J.J. Shubert, Otis Skinner, E.A. Sothern, E.H. Sothern, Fred Stone, Laurette Taylor, Ellen Terry, James & Lester Wallack, David Warfield, Clifton Webb, Weber & Fields, Orson Welles, Mae West, Thornton Wilder, Bert Williams, P.G. Wodehouse, Peggy Wood, Ed Wynn, Florenz Ziegfeld.

In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).