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- ↑ "'Idiot's Delight' Broadway" playbillvault.com, accessed December 22, 2015
- ↑ Sherwood, Robert Emmet, "Introduction", Idiot's Delight, Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1964, ISBN 0822216183, p. 4
- ↑ Fischer, Heinz-D and Fischer, Erika J. Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000, Walter de Gruyter, 2003, ISBN 3110939126, p. 238
- ↑ "'Idiot's Delight' 1951" playbillvault.com, accessed December 22, 2015
- ↑ Sweeney, Louise. "'Idiot's Delight': badly dated play given snappy production" csmonitor.com, March 17, 1986
- ↑ "THE PLAY; Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne Appearing in Sherwood's 'Idiot's Delight.'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
