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Nice People (play)

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Written by
  
Rachel Crothers

Original language
  
English

First performance
  
2 March 1921

Adaptations
  
Nice People (1922)

Date premiered
  
March 2, 1921

Genre
  
Comedy

Playwright
  
Rachel Crothers

Place premiered
  
Klaw Theatre

Setting
  
Gloucesters' apartment on Park Avenue, New York, Gloucesters' country cottage

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Nice People was a 1921 Broadway four-act comedy written and staged by Rachel Crothers, produced by Samuel H. Harris and starring Tallulah Bankhead and Francine Larrimore. After working with Bankhead in 39 East, Crothers wrote Nice People expressly for her. The general manager was William G. Norton, the scenic was designed by Navon Bergman, and John Kirkpatrick was the stage manager. It ran for 120 performances from March 2, 1921 to June, 1921, at the Klaw Theatre. It was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1920-1921. It was also Katharine Cornell's Broadway debut.

It was adapted into the 1922 silent film Nice People, now believed to be lost.

Cast

  • Martin Alsop as Hubert Gloucester
  • Francine Larrimore as Theodora Gloucester
  • Tallulah Bankhead as Hallie Livingston
  • Vincent Coleman as Billy Wade
  • Katharine Cornell as Eileen Baxter-Jones
  • Charles Gibney as Mr. Heyfer
  • Edwin Hensley as Trevor Leeds
  • Hugh Huntley as Scottie Wilbur
  • Merle Maddern as Margaret Rainsford
  • Guy Milham as Oliver Comstock
  • References

    Nice People (play) Wikipedia