James Avery Hopwood was an American playwright of the Jazz Age. He had four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920.
Madge Kennedy was a stage, film and television actress whose career began as a stage actress in 1912 and flourished in motion pictures during the silent film era. In 1921, journalist Heywood Broun described her as "the best farce actress in New York".
Wallace Ashley Worsley was an American stage actor who became a film actor and film director during the silent era. Over the course of his career, Worsley directed 29 films and acted in 7. He directed several movies starring Lon Chaney Sr., and his professional relationship with the actor was the best Chaney had, second to his partnership with Tod Browning.
Edward Abeles was an American actor. He appeared in eight films between 1914 and 1918. Before working for Famous Players–Lasky, of which he was one of the founding members, he had a lengthy stage career.
Florence Reed was an American stage and film actress. She is remembered for several outstanding stage productions, including The Shanghai Gesture, The Lullaby, The Yellow Ticket and The Wanderer. Her best remembered movie role was as Miss Havisham in the 1934 production of Great Expectations. In this version, however, Miss Havisham was changed from a completely insane woman to an eccentric, who did not wear her wedding veil constantly, and who dies peacefully rather than as a result of suffering burns in a fire. In the 1950s, Reed performed in several early television shows, such as The Philco Television Playhouse, Kraft Television Theatre and The United States Steel Hour. She is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Den grønne heisen is a 1981 Norwegian comedy film directed by Odd-Geir Sæther, based on a 1915 play by Avery Hopwood, and starring Rolv Wesenlund and Øivind Blunck.
Janet Beecher was an American stage and screen actress.
Mildred Holland was an American actress who appeared on stage for more than 35 years.
Fair and Warmer is a lost 1919 American silent film directed by Henry Otto starring May Allison and Eugene Pallette. The film was based upon the 1915 Avery Hopwood play Fair and Warmer.
Archibald Selwyn was a Canadian-American play broker, theater owner and stage producer who had many Broadway successes. He and his brother Edgar Selwyn were partners. They were among the founders of Goldwyn Pictures, later to be merged into MGM.
The Model Husband is a 1937 German comedy film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Heinz Rühmann, Leny Marenbach, and Hans Söhnker. It is based on a 1915 American play Fair and Warmer by Avery Hopwood. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Gülstorff and Hans Minzloff. The film was screened at the Venice Film Festival where it won an award. In the 1950s, it was remade twice: a 1956 West German film The Model Husband and a 1959 Swiss The Model Husband.
Twin Beds is a 1914 comedic play by Salisbury Field and Margaret Mayo, based on Field's 1913 novel of the same name, which played on Broadway and was also the basis for multiple film adaptations. The play debuted on August 14, 1914, at the Fulton Theatre, and ran on Broadway for 411 performances.
The College Widow is a 1904 American comedic play by George Ade, which was adapted to film multiple times, and also into the popular 1917 musical Leave It to Jane.
Nobody's Widow is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Donald Crisp and starring Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray and Phyllis Haver. It is an adaptation of a 1910 play of the same title by Avery Hopwood.
The First Year is a 1920 American comedic play written by Frank Craven, and produced by John Golden and directed by Winchell Smith on Broadway. It was a hit on Broadway, running for 729 performances.
The Green Lift or Going Up by the Green Lift is a 1952 Swedish comedy film that is both written and directed by Börje Larsson and starring Stig Järrel, Annalisa Ericson and Gunnar Björnstrand. It was shot at the Stocksund Studios in Stockholm and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bibi Lindström. It is based on the Broadway play Fair and Warmer by Avery Hopwood, which had previously been adapted into a 1944 Swedish film The Green Lift also directed by Larsson.
The Green Lift is a 1944 Swedish comedy film directed by Börje Larsson and starring Max Hansen, Sickan Carlsson and Gaby Stenberg. It was shot at the Sundbyberg Studios of Europa Film in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Linder. It is based on the Broadway play Fair and Warmer (1915) by Avery Hopwood. Larsson later remade it into a 1952 film of the same name.
Philip Bartholomae was an American playwright, lyricist, screenwriter, and theatre director. He wrote many plays and musicals which were staged on Broadway in the 1910s and 1920s, several of which were adapted into films with screenplays by Bartholomae. His first successful play was Over Night (1911) which was also the first play he adapted into a film in 1915. His best known stage work, Very Good Eddie (1915), was a musical adaptation of Over Night which Bartholomae created in collaboration with Guy Bolton and composer Jerome Kern. It was a Broadway hit when it premiered, and enjoyed long running revivals on Broadway and the West End in the 1970s. That work received several nominations at the 30th Tony Awards and the 1976 Laurence Olivier Awards.
Over Night is a farce in three acts by Philip Bartholomae. The play takes place aboard the S.S. Hendrik Hudson, a steamboat on the Hudson River Day Line, and follows two sets of couples, the "Darlings" and the "Kettles". The work premiered on Broadway in 1911, and it was the first significant success for Bartholomae as a playwright. Bartholomae later adapted his play into a screenplay for the 1915 film of the same name which was directed by James Young and starred Vivian Martin and Sam Hardy. He later adapted this play in collaboration with Guy Bolton into the hit Broadway musical Very Good Eddie (1915) which featured music by Jerome Kern.
Under Two Flags is a play in five acts by Paul M. Potter. It is based on the 1867 Engliish novel of the same name by Ouida. It premiered at Broadway's Garden Theatre on February 5, 1901. It closed in June 1901 after 135 performances. The original production was produced by Charles Frohman and David Belasco. Belasco also directed the play which starred Campbell Gollan as the Marquis of Chateauroy, Francis Carlyle as Bertie Cecil, and Blanche Bates as Cigarette.
