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Child of Manhattan (play)

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Written by
  
Preston Sturges

Original language
  
English

First performance
  
1 March 1932

Adaptations
  
Child of Manhattan (1933)

Date premiered
  
March 1, 1932

Genre
  
Romantic comedy

Playwright
  
Preston Sturges

Place premiered
  
New York City

Characters
  
Madeleine McGonegal Otto Paul Vanderkill Panama C. Kelly others

Setting
  
Loveland Dance Hall, Madeleine's home, and a Penthouse

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Child of Manhattan is a 1932 play by Preston Sturges, his fifth to be produced on Broadway and his last for almost twenty years as his career took him to Hollywood. It was adapted into a film of the same name, released in 1933 by Columbia Pictures, the second play of Sturges' to make it to the silver screen, after 1929's Strictly Dishonorable.

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Broadway production

Sturges wrote Child of Manhattan in 16 days. The out-of-town tryout took place at the Broadstreet Theatre in Newark, New Jersey, where the play received very good audience response.

The Broadway production opened at the Fulton Theatre on March 1, 1932 and logged 87 performances, closing in May of that year. It was produced by Peggy Fears and A. C. Blumenthal and directed by Howard Lindsay.

Critical response was poor, and included such assessments as "Sheer trash," "deeply offensive," and commented on its "bathos and sweetish bosh." Time magazine said that the play was "as silly as it is trite."

Broadway cast

The opening night cast included:

References

Child of Manhattan (play) Wikipedia