Men in White (play)

Men in White
Men in White
	Handbill for the original Broadway production
Written by	Sidney Kingsley
Date premiered	September 26, 1933
Place premiered	Broadhurst Theatre; New York City, New York
Original language	English
Genre	Drama
Setting	St. George's Hospital

Men in White is a 1933 play written by American playwright Sidney Kingsley. It was produced by the Group Theatre, Sidney Harmon and James Ramsey Ullman, directed by Lee Strasberg with scenic design created by Mordecai Gorelik. It ran for 351 performances from September 26, 1933 to July 28, 1934 at the Broadhurst Theatre. The play won the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

It was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1933–1934.

Cast[]

Men in White (1933), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Luther Adler as Dr. Gordon
Alan Baxter as Dr. Crawford and as Mac
Phoebe Brand as Barbara Dennin
Morris Carnovsky as Dr. Levine
J. Edward Bromberg as Dr. Hochberg
as Dr. McCabe
William Challee as Dr. Michaelson
Russell Collins as Dr. Cunningham
Herbert Ratner as Dr. Vitale
Walter Coy as Dr. Bradley and as Peter
Robert Harper as Mr. Drummond
Alexander Kirkland as Dr. Ferguson
Bob Lewis as Dr. Otis and as Shorty
Sanford Meisner as Dr. Wren and as Mr. Smith
Ruth Nelson as Mrs. Smith
Margaret Barker as Laura Hudson
Mary Virginia Farmer as Mrs. D'Andrea
as James Mooney
as Mr. Spencer
Clifford Odets as Mr. Houghton
Art Smith as Mr. Hudson
Mab Maynard as Dorothy Smith
Dorothy Patten as nurse Mary Ryan
Eunice Stoddard as nurse Jamison
Paula Miller as first nurse
Elena Karam as second nurse
Elia Kazan as orderly

Adaptations[]

The play was adapted for the 1934 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Men in White, starring Clark Gable (Dr. Ferguson) and Myrna Loy (Laura Hudson).^[1]

References[]

^ "Men in White". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2017-11-09.

Men in White at the Internet Broadway Database

External links[]

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[1] "Men in White". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2017-11-09.

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