''A Tailor-Made Man'' is a 1917 American play by

Harry James Smith Harry James Smith (May 24, 1880 – March 16, 1918) was an American playwright and novelist. His best known plays include '' A Tailor-Made Man'', first produced in 1917 and adapted into films of the same name in 1922 and 1931. His 1913 play ''Bl ...

, which ran for 398 performances at the Cohan and Harris Theatre. It debuted on August 27, 1917, and played through August 1918.Bordman, Gerald & Thomas S. Hischak
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
p. 604 (3d ed. 2004)"A Tailor-Made Man" - The New Comedy of a Dress-Suit Napoleon
''Current Opinion'', pp. 311-14 (November 1917) The play was adapted from the 1908 Hungarian play ''A Szerencse Fia'' ("Son of Luck") by Gábor Drégely. ''The Playbill'' and press referred to Dregely's play as ''The Well-Fitting Dress Coat'', which derives from the play's German title (''Der gutsitzende Frack''), so presumably Smith worked from that translation. Grant Mitchell starred in the 1917 Broadway production, which was staged by Sam Forrest, and in an October 1929 revival. The play ran for just shy of an entire year at the Cohan and Harris Theatre in New York. The play was Smith's greatest success, but he did not live to see the full run, as he died in a train and automobile accident in March 1918 while working for the Red Cross. Tompkins, Juliet Wilbor, introduction t
Letters of Harry James Smith
p. ix (1919)Fisher, James & Felicia Hardison Londre
The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism
p. 465 (2008)Bordman, Gerald
American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama 1914-1930
pp. 65-66 (1995)A Tailor-made Man
''Green Book Magazine'', pp. 779-80 (November 1917) The play later led to a 1922 silent film and 1931 film.

Original Broadway cast

(In order of appearance) *Mr. Huber ...

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*Mr. Rowlands ... L.E. Conness *Peter ... Barlowe Borland *Dr. Gustavus Sonntag ... Theodore Friebus *Tanya Huber ... Helen MacKellar *John Paul Bart ... Grant Mitchell *Pomeroy ... Rowland Buckstone *Mrs. Stanlaw ... Minna Gale Haynes *Mr. Stanlaw ... Harry Harwood *Corinne Stanlaw ... Mona Kingsley *Dorothy ... Adrienne Bonnelli *Bobby Westlake ... Lloyd Carpenter *Mr. Fleming ... John Wall *Mr. Crane ... John Maccabee *Mr. Carroll ... Douglas Farne *Mrs. Fitzmorris ... Josephine Deffry *Wheating ... Frank G. Harley *Mrs. Kittie Dupuy ...

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*Bessie Dupuy ... Nancy Power *Mr. Jellicott ... A.P. Kaye *Abraham Nathan ... Frank Burbeck *Miss Shayne ... Gladys Gilbert *Mr. Grayson ... Leonard White *Mr. Whitcombe ... Howard Wall *Mr. Russell (labor delegate) ... John A. Boone *Mr. Cain (labor delegate) ... J.H. Greene *Mr. Flynn (labor delegate) ... William C. Hodges

References

External links

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A Tailor-Made Man: A Comedy in Four Acts
(full play via Google books, published 1919) {{DEFAULTSORT:Tailor-Made Man, A Broadway plays 1917 plays