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Her Master's Voice (play)

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Written by
  
Clare Kummer

Original language
  
English

First performance
  
23 October 1933

Adaptations
  
Her Master's Voice (1936)

Date premiered
  
October 23, 1933

Genre
  
Comedy

Playwright
  
Clare Beecher Kummer

Place premiered
  
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

Setting
  
Farrars' home living room in Homewood, New Jersey; Aunt Min's home Sleeping porch at Dewellyn

Her Master's Voice was a 1933 Broadway two act comedy written by Clare Kummer, produced by Max Gordon and staged by C. Worthington Miner with scenic design created by Raymond Sovey. It ran for 224 performances from October 23, 1933 to May 1934 at the Plymouth Theatre.

The play was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1933-1934.

It was adapted into the 1936 film Her Master's Voice directed by Joseph Santley and starring Edward Everett Horton and Peggy Conklin with Laura Hope Crews recreating her role as Aunt Min.

Cast

  • Roland Young as Ned Farrar
  • Frances Fuller as Queena Farrar
  • Laura Hope Crews as Aunt Min
  • Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. Martin
  • Francis Pierlot as Craddock
  • Frederick Perry as Mr. Twilling
  • Josephine Williams as Phoebe
  • References

    Her Master's Voice (play) Wikipedia