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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2785
Title'The Biggest Thief in Town' by Dalton Trumbo
Extent1 file
Date1949-1951
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Biggest Thief in Town' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; includes programme with cast list 1951; magazine extract with photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The New Boltons Theatre Club, Kensington, 17 Jul 1951; produced by Peter Cotes; setting by Richard Lake
Transferred to: The Duchess Theatre, London, 14 Aug 1951; presented by The New Boltons Theatre Company in association with Peter Cotes Productions
Transferred to: The Fortune Theatre, London, 8 Dec 1951, closing performance (173rd) 19 Jan 1952
On tour: 1952: The New Theatre, Hull; The Kings Theatre, Southsea; The Pavilion, Bournemouth; Her Majesty's Theatre, Brighton; The Grand Theatre, Blackpool
America: [The Mansfield Theatre], New York, 1949

Casts: Hartley Power, Launce Maraschal, Fred Johnson, Brian Haines, Jean McDonald, Maurice Kaufmann, Evelyn Roberts, Ann Zane, Doreen Richards, Bernard Merefield, Richard Coke, John Stannard, Michael Patridge, Liam Redmond, Donald Tandy, J. Edward Bromberg, Bernard Braden, Noel Carey, Phoebe Bradley Williams, Howard Charlton, Victor Woolf, John Jarvis, Bertram Hayhoe, Vox Draffin, Alexander Wright, Thomas Mitchell
Access StatusOpen

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