- (1905 - 1937) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1905) Stage Play: My Tom-Boy Girl. Musical comedy. Book by Charles E. Blaney. Music by Wagner Crosby. Music arranged by Wagner Crosby. Incidental music by Thomas Cutty. Musical Director: Wagner Crosby. Directed by Priestly Morrison [earliest Broadway credit]. Haverly's 14th Street Theatre: 22 May 1905- 27 May 1905 (8 performances). Cast: Guy H. Bartlett (as "Scrappy/Possum"), Howard Bolton (as "Daring Dave"), John A. Boone (as "Colonel T.C. Calvert"), Syble Brennan (as "Octoroon"), Robert Campbell (as "Hurricane Hall"), Dorothy Carter (as "Octoroon/Mrs. James"), Daisy Cline (as "Octoroon"), Harriet Davis (as "Diavola"), Larry Eugene (as "Rev. Amos Tinker"), may Ferguson (as "Octoroon"), Edyth Forrest (as "Octoroon"), Lizzie Fuller (as "Octoroon"), Edward Giles (as "Policeman Graft"), Albert Hall (as "James Barton"), Annie Hall (as "Octoroon"), William Handy (as "Giovanni"), Madge Henning (as "Octoroon"), Strap Hill (as "Bill"), Walter G. Horton (as "Richard Vaughn"), Bertie Houseman (as "Octoroon"), Claire Husted (as "Octoroon"), Sally Isaacs (as "Octoroon"), Maud Kellett (as "Lillian Calvert"), Eugene LaRue (as "Hon. Blackstone Law"), Theressa Leland (as "Octoroon"), Al Lester (as "Herman von Benninghouse"), Allie Marshall (as "Mother Sheppard/Octoroon"), Nellie Maskell (as "Mammy Pullett"), Viola McDonald (as "Octoroon/Jane"), Jenny Pierson (as "Octoroon"), Madge Robinson (as "Octoroon"), Sadie Stanley (as "Octoroon"), Doris Usher (as "Octoroon"), George Van Rensellaer (as "Stealthy Steve"), Burton Varr (as "Blustering Bill"), F.E. Whitehouse (as "Foxey Fred"), Lottie Williams (as "Josie/Captain Charlie/Ragged Joe"). Produced by Charles E. Blaney Amusement Company.
- (1919) Stage Play: Smilin' Through. Comedy/fantasy. Written by Allan Langdon Martin [Pseudonym for Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin]. Scenic Design by Joseph Urban. Directed by Priestly Morrison, under the Personal Direction of Jane Cowl. Broadhurst Theatre: 30 Dec 1919- May 1920 (closing date unknown/175 performances). Cast: Jane Cowl (as "Kathleen Dungannon/Moonyeen Clare"), Laline Brownell [credited as Lalive Brownell] (as "The Mother of the Boy") [Broadway debut], Orme Caldara (as "Kenneth Wayne/Jeremiah Wayne"), Ethelbert Hale [credited as Ethelbert D. Hales] (as "John Carteret"), Charles Hampden (as "Willie Ainley"), Augusta Haviland (as "Ellen"), Elaine Inescort (as "The Mother of the Girl, Mary Clare"), David Torrence (as "Dr. Owen Harding"). Produced by The Selwyns. Note: Filmed as Smilin' Through (1922), Smilin' Through (1932), and Smilin' Through (1941).
- (1920) Stage Play: The Girl with the Carmine Lips. Comedy/farce. Written by Wilson Collison. Directed by Priestly Morrison. Punch and Judy Theatre: 9 Aug 1920- Aug 1920 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Philip Barrison (as "John Baird"), Kate Blancke (as "Mrs. Stuyvescent-Arden"), Culver Brice (as "A Lawyer"), Wilfred Clarke (as "Peter Hammerton"), Olive Cooper (as "Potts"), Edward Leach (as "Dry Cleaner"), Edna Leslie (as "Daisy"), Mrs. Lorrington (as "The Girl with the Carmine Lips"), Grace Menken (as "Janet Arden-Hammerton"), Dallas Welford (as "Mathews"). Produced by Wilson Collison.
- (1920) Stage Play: Marry the Poor Girl. Comedy/farce. Written by Owen Davis. Directed by Priestly Morrison. Little Theatre: 25 Sep 1920- Oct 1920 (closing date unknown/18 performances). Cast: Frank Allworth (as "Tom Harrison"), Wilbur Braun (as "Morgan"), Ninita Bristow (as "Ann Winsted"), Halbert Brown (as "Wallace Paddington"), William David (as "Steve Ripley"), Harold De Becker (as "Bradley Littlefield"), Stapleton Kent (as "Rev. Carlton Gibbs"), Isabelle Lowe (as "Julia Paddington"), Gertrude Maitland (as "Mrs. Paddington"), Frances Mann (as "Kittie Porter"), Beatrice Noyes (as "Rose Gary"), Maude O'Connor (as "Sara Grogan"), William Roselle (as "Jack Tanner"). Produced by Oliver Morosco. Note: Filmed by Carter De Haven Productions [distributed by Associated Exhibitors] as Marry the Poor Girl (1921).
- (1921) Stage Play: We Girls. Comedy. Written by Fanny Hatton and Frederic Hatton. Directed by Priestly Morrison. 48th Street Theatre: 9 Nov 1921- Nov 1921 (closing date unknown/30 performances). Cast: Juliette Day, Edward Fielding, Marguerite Forrest, A.J. Herbert, Warren W. Krech, William Lennox, Cordelia MacDonald, John McFarlane, Frances Neilson, Minna Phillips (as "Louisa"), Thomas A. Rolfe, Ray Wilson, Mary Young. Produced by Marc Klaw.
- (1922) Stage Play: For Goodness Sake. Musical comedy. Book by Fred Jackson. Lyrics by Arthur Jackson. Music by William Daly and Paul Lannin. Musical Director: William Daly. Additional music by George Gershwin. Additional lyrics by Arthur Francis. Musical Staging by Allan K. Foster. Additional Staging by Julian Alfred. Directed by Priestly Morrison. Lyric Theatre: 21 Feb 1922- 20 May 1922 (103 performances). Cast: Harry R. Allen, Adele Astaire, Fred Astaire, Roger Buckley, Helen Ford, Marjorie Gateson, Jack Goeirs, Kitty Gray, John E. Hazzard, James Herold, Doris Hyde, Sylvia Jocelyn, Charles Judels, Bebe LaVelle, Muriel Lodge, Lenore Lukens, Dana Mayo, Peggy Mitchell, Fred Packard, Helen Paine, Ann Poulson, Phyllis Reynolds, Lorraine Sherwood, Russell Swann, Violet Vale. Produced by Alex Aarons.
- (1922) Stage Play: Lady Bug. Farce. Written by Frances Nordstrom. Directed by Priestly Morrison. Apollo Theatre: 17 Apr 1922- Apr 1922 (closing date unknown/5 performances). Cast: John Cumberland, Ida Fitzhugh, Leila Frost (as "Dorothy Meredith"), Leon Gordon (as "J. Claude Ruthford"), Denman Maley, Marie Nordstrom, Edward Poland, Lilyan Tashman (as "Pauline Manning"), Hilda Vaughn, Fleming Ward (as "Robert Manning"). Produced by Philip Klein.
- (1923) Stage Play: Thumbs Down. Melodrama.
- (1923) Stage Play: Queen Victoria. Drama. Written by David Carb and Walter Prichard Eaton. Directed by Priestly Morrison. 48th Street Theatre: 15 Nov 1923- Dec 1923 (closing date unknown/44 performances). Cast: Donald Cameron (as "Viscount Melbourne"), Clarence Derwent (as "Benjamin Disraeli"), Herbert Farjeon (as "Sir James Clark"), George Farren (as "William Ewart Gladstone"), Edward Fielding (as "Duke of Wellington"), Frances Goodrich (as "Lady Gay Hawthorne"), Winifred Hanley (as "Duchess of Kent"), Borden Harriman (as "A Footman"), Ullrich Haupt (as "Prince Albert of Coburg") [Broadway debut], William Ingersoll (as "Lord Palmerston"), Arthur Maude (as "Edward, Prince of Wales"), Beryl Mercer (as "Alexandrina Victoria"), Anita Rothe (as "Baroness Lehzen"), Herbert Standing Jr. (as "Lord Conyngham"), Albert Tavernier (as "Archbishop of Canterbury"), Hubert Wilke (as "Baron Stockmar"). Produced by The Equity Players Inc.
- (1924) Stage Play: The Locked Door. Comedy. Written by Martin Lawton. Directed by Priestly Morrison. Cort Theatre: 19 Jun 1924- Jul 1924 (closing date unknown/20 performances). Cast: Hortense Alden (as "Marie"), John Davidson (as "Henri"), Reginald Mason (as "Frank Babbington"), Florence Shirley (as "Muriel Walling"), Charles Trowbridge (as "Richard Walling"), Eleanor Woodruff (as "Julia Babbington"). Produced by Jacob A. Weiser and Bela Blau.
- (1925) Stage Play: The Piker. Drama.
- (1925) Stage Play: Easy Come, Easy Go. Farce. Written by Owen Davis. Directed by Priestly Morrison. George M. Cohan's Theatre (moved to The Biltmore Theatre on 7 Dec 1925): 26 Oct 1925- Apr 1926 (closing date unknown/180 performances). Cast: Edward Arnold (as "Mortimer Quale"), Jules Bennett, John Bingham, Vaughn De Leath, Betty Garde (as "Alma Borden") [Broadway debut], Jefferson Hall, Mary Halliday, John Irwin, Otto Kruger (as "Dick Tain"), Harriett Marlotte, Edwin Maxwell, Victor Moore (as "Jim Bailey"), Neill O'Malley, Nan Sunderland, Frank W. Taylor, Edwin Walter. Produced by Lewis and Gordon. Produced in association with Sam Harris. Note: Filmed by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [distributed by Paramount Pictures] as Easy Come, Easy Go (1928) [silent] and by Paramount Pictures as Only Saps Work (1930).
- (1925) Stage Play: Alias the Deacon. Comedy.
- (1926) Stage Play: One Man's Woman. Comedy/drama.
- (1926) Stage Play: One Man's Woman. Comedy/drama. Written by Michael Kallesser. Directed by George Smithfield and Priestly Morrison. 48th Street Theatre: 25 May 1926- Jun 1926 (closing date unknown/28 performances). Cast: Margaret Barnstead (as "Betty Davis"), Curtis Cooksey (as "Kenneth Regan"), Alven Dexter (as "James Rathboone"), Peter Lang (as "Edward Post"), Lucille Lortel (as "Clara Rathboone"), Kay McKay (as "Kilauea"), Jane Meredith (as "Dolly Weaver"), Lei Lehua Munson (as "Dancer"), Nani (as "Noala"), Aloha Waldheim (as "Dancer"). Produced by Michael Kallesser.
- (1926) Stage Play: Pyramids. Drama. Written by Samuel R. Golding. Directed by Priestly Morrison. George M. Cohan's Theatre: 19 Jul 1926- Aug 1926 (closing date unknown/32 performances). Cast: James Barrett (as "Ferguson"), Carlton Brickert (as "Inspector Farrell"), Donald Campbell (as "Cooper Rankin"), Roy Gordon (as "Robert Amory"), Madeline Grey (as "Muriel Rankin"), Robert W. Lawrence (as "Nolan"), Carroll McComas (as "Joan Amory"), Guy Milham (as "Neil Gilroy"), Harry Southard (as "Ushikibo"), Charles Waldron (as "Martin Van Cott"). Produced by Ramsey Wallace and Frank Martins.
- (1927) Stage Play. The Barker. Written by Kenyon Nicholson [earliest Broadway credit]. Directed by Priestly Morrison. Biltmore Theatre: 18 Jan 1927- Jul 1927 (closing date unknown/221 performances). Cast: George Barbier (as "Colonel Gowdy"), Raymond Bramley (as "Doc Rice"), Claudette Colbert (as "Lou"), Norman Foster (as "Chris Miller"), Florence Gerald (as "Maw Benson"), Philip Heege (as "T-Bone"), Ross Hertz (as "A Hick"), May Hopkins (as "Cleo") [final Broadway role], Walter Huston (as "Nifty Miller"), Albert Hyde (as "Pop Morgan"), John Irwin (as "Sailor West"), Nakoloilani (as "Hawaiian Trio"), Pakalaka (as "Hawaiian Trio"), Pakuakini (as "Hawaiian Trio"), Al Roberts (as "Hap Spissell"), Eleanor Winslow Williams (as "Carrie"). Produced by Charles L. Wagner, in association with Edgar Selwyn. Note: Filmed as The Barker (1928).
- (1928) Stage Play: Married-and How! Comedy.
- (1934) Stage Play: So Many Paths. Drama. Written by Irving Kaye Davis. Scenic Design by Watson Barratt. Directed by Priestly Morrison. Ritz Theatre: 6 Dec 1934- Dec 1934 (closing date unknown/28 performances). Cast: Mary Barker (as "Beulah"), George Blackwood (as "Walter Henderson"), Matt Briggs (as "Howard Brown"), Blanche Fleming (as "Miss Pearson"), Hermann Lieb (as "Henry J. Stewart"), Lea Penman (as "Madame Fuselli"), Sara Perry (as "Mrs. Kenny"), Natalie Schafer (as "Margaret Kenny Brown"), Nancy Sheridan (as "Ruth Kenny"), Norma Terris (as "Clara Kenny"). Produced by Cohn and Scanlon.
- (December 25, 1937 to January 1, 1938) He acted in George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's play," You Can't Take It With You," in a National Tour production at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Ethel Wilson, Sara Sherburne, Ruby Oliphant, Donald Foster, Joseph Allenton, Roy Johnson, John Marriott, Florence Williams, King Calder, Glen Boles, Joseph Kallini, Harriet E. MacGibbon, Reginald Mason, Dorothy French, Clarence Oliver, Arthur Lipson, Donald Baker, and Ulla Kazanova in the cast. Donald Oenslager was set designer. George S. Kaufman was also director. Sam H. Harris was producer.
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