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The Fifth Column
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Drama
Original
Broadway
Opening Date
Mar 06, 1940
Closing Date
May 18, 1940
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Open Date: Mar 06, 1940
Close Date: May 18, 1940
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ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION
The credits for this production have not yet been completed or verified.
Theatres
Alvin Theatre
(Mar 06, 1940 - May 18, 1940)
Setting
Rooms 109 and 110, Hotel Florida near Madrid; Artillery Post, Top of Extramadura Road; Seguridad Headquarters; a Café.
People
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Produced by
The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors)
Book adapted by
Benjamin Glazer
; Adapted from a play by
Ernest Hemingway
Staged by
Lee Strasberg
; Production Supervised by
Theresa Helburn
and
Lawrence Langner
Scenic Design by
Howard Bay
; Costume Design by
Paul Du Pont
Emil Boreo
Hotel Manager
Hilda Bruce
Petra
Sid Cassel
Hotel Electrician
First Waiter
Fred Catania
Another Assault Guard
Kendall Clark
Private Wilkinson
Lee J. Cobb
Max
Harry Davis
The Butterfly Man
John Gerard
A Thin Officer
A Prowler
Second Waiter
Raoul Henry
A Sentry
Another Assault Guard
A. J. Herbert
Preston
Charles Jordan
Doyle
Peter Knego
Another Assault Guard
David Leonard
A Man in Civilian Clothes
Henry Levin
Another Soldier
A Signaler
Philip Lewis
Holt
Katherine Locke
Dorothy Bridges
Arnold Moss
Antonio
Wendell K. Phillips
A Soldier from New York
Michael Sage
Another Sentry
An Assault Guard
An Artilleryman
William F. Schoeller
A General from Germany
Franchot Tone
Philip Rawlings
Lenore Ulric
Anita
People
Production Staff
Opening Night Cast
Produced by
The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors)
Book adapted by
Benjamin Glazer
; Adapted from a play by
Ernest Hemingway
Staged by
Lee Strasberg
; Production Supervised by
Theresa Helburn
and
Lawrence Langner
Scenic Design by
Howard Bay
; Costume Design by
Paul Du Pont
Emil Boreo
Hotel Manager
Hilda Bruce
Petra
Sid Cassel
Hotel Electrician
First Waiter
Fred Catania
Another Assault Guard
Kendall Clark
Private Wilkinson
Lee J. Cobb
Max
Harry Davis
The Butterfly Man
John Gerard
A Thin Officer
A Prowler
Second Waiter
Raoul Henry
A Sentry
Another Assault Guard
A. J. Herbert
Preston
Charles Jordan
Doyle
Peter Knego
Another Assault Guard
David Leonard
A Man in Civilian Clothes
Henry Levin
Another Soldier
A Signaler
Philip Lewis
Holt
Katherine Locke
Dorothy Bridges
Arnold Moss
Antonio
Wendell K. Phillips
A Soldier from New York
Michael Sage
Another Sentry
An Assault Guard
An Artilleryman
William F. Schoeller
A General from Germany
Franchot Tone
Philip Rawlings
Lenore Ulric
Anita
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