William A. Grew
William Albert Grew (August 26, 1885 - October 26, 1967) was an American actor, sketch-writer and revue playwright who wrote, directed, and performed in nine Broadway productions from 1924 to 1931.[1][2] His and his wife, actress Gwendolyn Pates, had a stock company called the Grew-Pates Players, performing in the United States and Canada from 1914 to 1920.[3][4][5][6][7]
Plays
[edit]- The Sap 1924 - twice filmed[8][9]
- The Mating Season 18 July 1927, Selwyn[10]
- My Girl Friday at the Theatre Republic 1929[11]
- Nice Women at the Longacre Theatre, 1929[12]
- She Lived Next to the Firehouse 1931 - William A. Grew and Harry Delf
References
[edit]- ^ Craig R. Prentiss Staging Faith: Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem ...2014 0814707955 " William A. Grew, a white actor who had written, directed, and performed in nine Broadway productions dating back to 1924, ...
- ^ WWII Draft Registration Card, Serial Number U1015, Local Draft Board of Hudson County, New Jersey, April 27, 1942
- ^ "Empire Theatre". The Post-Star. September 4, 1914. p. 10. Retrieved August 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Miss Gwendoline Bates". The Brattleboro Daily Reformer. September 14, 1914. p. 5. Retrieved August 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "'The Lure of the City' at the Grand Opera House". The Boston Globe. November 14, 1915. p. 50. Retrieved August 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Plans to Produce Movie of Canada's Part in Big War". The Winnipeg Tribune. February 15, 1918. p. 11. Retrieved August 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Chatter of the Stage and of the Screen Stars". Fitchburg Sentinel. November 13, 1920. p. 10. Retrieved August 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ AFI Catalogue 1971 Source: William A. Grew, The Sap (New York opening: 15 December 1924). Barry Weston, who has been coddled into cowardice by his mother, goes off to war and out of sheer terror fights splendidly. He is welcomed back to his hometown as a hero, ...
- ^ Thomas S. Hischak Broadway Plays and Musicals 2009 "The seemingly useless Bill Small (Raymond Hitchcock) is a cheerful fellow who can't get or keep a job and his wife Betty (Miriam Sears) and all her relatives have given up on him. Bill's brother-inlaw Ed Mason (Norval Keedwell) confesses he “borrowed” $10,000 from the bank where he works and invested it in wheat stock which went sour. ... It turns out Bill invested in the same stock when it was low, sold high and now owns the bank...."
- ^ Gerald Bordman -American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama 1914-1930 1995 0195090780 "That was all William A. Grew's The Mating Season (7-18-27, Selwyn) managed, too. Grew, a sometime revue-sketch writer, was also the star, leaving critics to ponder if he was more embarrassingly inept as a playwright or a player. "
- ^ Ken Bloom -Broadway: An Encyclopedia 1135950202 2013 - "When in 1929 William A. Grew's play My Girl Friday was playing the Theatre Republic, the Associated Press reported that a stagehand found the horseshoe and the doorman nailed itinits place above the stage door. That night the theater was .."
- ^ Nice Women at the Internet Broadway Database
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