Happy Birthday (play)

Happy Birthday
Written by	Anita Loos
Date premiered	October 31, 1946
Place premiered	Broadhurst Theatre
Original language	English
Genre	Comedy
Setting	Newark, New Jersey 1940s

Happy Birthday is a comedic stage play written by American playwright Anita Loos. The play premiered on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre in 1946. The show was nominated for two Tony Awards, Best Costumes by Lucinda Ballard and Best Lead Actress in a Play for Helen Hayes, who won the award as Addie Bemis. The plays tells the story of a librarian and her escapades when she decides to have a night on the town.^[1]

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Production history

The play opened on October 31, 1946 at the Broadhurst Theatre to critical and financial success, extending its run and transferring to the Plymouth Theatre. The show closed its run on March 13, 1948 after 563 performances. The show was produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, who also wrote a song for the play titled "I Haven't Got a Worry in the World". The show was directed by Joshua Logan. Cloris Leachman served as Hayes' understudy. ^[2]

Original cast and characters

Character	Broadway (1946)
Addie Bemis	Helen Hayes
Paul	Louis Jean Heydt
Mr. Bemis	Robert Burton
Maud	Lorraine Miller
Tot	Enid Markey
The Judge	Ralph Theadore
Gail	Margaret Irving
Dad Malone	Thomas Heaphy
Emma	Grace Valentine
Bella	Florence Sundstrom
Gabe	Charles Gordon
Don	Dort Clark

References

^ [1]
^ Rocco, Claudia La (25 March 2013). "Librarian Lets Down Hair and Downs Many Drinks". The New York Times.

External links

Anita Loos

Novels

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of A Professional Lady. (1926)
But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928)

Plays

Happy Birthday (1946)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949)
Gigi (1951)
Chéri (1959)

Film
/I signals that Loos also wrote the intertitles;
some works are co-written

Writer (screenplay/scenario)	My Baby (1912) The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) The New York Hat (1912) The Mistake (1913) The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913) Billy's Rival (1914) The Girl in the Shack (1914) The Hunchback (1914) The Sisters (1914/I) The Americano (1916/I) Stranded (1916/I) The Half-Breed (1916) His Picture in the Papers (1916) The Children Pay (1916) A Daughter of the Poor (1917) Reaching for the Moon (1917) Wild and Woolly (1917) Let's Get a Divorce (1918) The Isle of Conquest (1919) A Virtuous Vamp (1919) Mama's Affair (1921) Red Hot Romance (1922) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) The Struggle (1931) Red-Headed Woman (1932) The Barbarian (1933) Hold Your Man (1933) The Girl from Missouri (1934; original) Riffraff (1936) San Francisco (1936) Saratoga (1937) The Women (1939) Susan and God (1940) Blossoms in the Dust (1941) When Ladies Meet (1941) The Lost House (1915) They Met in Bombay (1941) I Married an Angel (1942) Producers' Showcase "Happy Birthday" (1956)
Story	Nell's Eugenic Wedding (1914) American Aristocracy (1916) Woman's Place (1921) Midnight Mary (1933) Saratoga (1937)
Novel	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
Titles	The Americano (1916) Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) Macbeth (1916) The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)
Other	The Branded Woman (1920; adaptation) Red Hot Romance (1922; executive producer) Blondie of the Follies (1932; dialogue) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953; play)
Uncredited	The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) Another Thin Man (1939) Babes in Arms (1939) Strange Cargo (1940) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

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