Original language English First performance 1 August 1921 | Genre Farce Place premiered New Victory Theater | |
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Written by Wilson Collison, Avery Hopwood Date premiered August 1, 1921 (1921-08-01) Adaptations Getting Gertie's Garter (1945) Playwrights Avery Hopwood, Wilson Collison Similar The Demi‑Virgin, Ladies' Night, The Gold Diggers, The Bat | ||
Getting gerties garter
Getting Gertie's Garter is a play written by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood. Producer A. H. Woods staged it on Broadway, where it opened at the Republic Theatre on August 1, 1921. Hazel Dawn played the role of Gertie. The play was a sex farce, but unlike most productions of its type, the setting was a hayloft instead of a bedroom. It was a success at the box office, running for 15 weeks with 120 performances on Broadway, then moving to touring companies.
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The play had tryouts starting in Brooklyn, then in Boston and Chicago under the reduced title of Gertie's Garter. Dawn found her role unsatisfying due to its similarity to her part in Up in Mabel's Room, an earlier farce produced by Woods, but stuck with the show. She eventually left the Broadway production in September to take the lead in another Woods-produced farce, The Demi-Virgin.
Adaptations
The play was adapted as a movie three times: