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unusual facts about Charles Frohman



Clyde Fitch

His 1892 play Masked Ball (an adaption from Alexandre Bisson's Le Veglione) would be the first time that producer Charles Frohman put Maude Adams opposite John Drew Jr., a pairing which led to many successes.

Edna Luby

Hearts Are Trumps, a four-act melodrama, was written by Cecil Raleigh, produced by Charles Frohman and had also introduced to Broadway theatergoers a young Cecil B. De Mille.

Elsie Ferguson

She also may have consented to films because she no longer had the protection of her beloved Broadway employers Henry B. Harris, who died on the Titanic and Charles Frohman, who perished on the Lusitania in May 1915.

Emily Bancker

Later in the year Bancker joined Charles Frohman's comedy company playing one of the two widows (the other Georgiana Drew) in the Bisson-Carre-Gillette farce, Mr. Wilkinson's Widows.

Herbert Reynolds

Reynolds wrote the lyrics to Jerome Kern's first big hit, "They Didn't Believe Me", interpolated into the 1914 American version of The Girl from Utah, produced by Charles Frohman.

Izetta Jewel

The following season she played opposite Skinner in Charles Frohman’s production of Sire at the Criterion Theatre and in 1912 with James K. Hackett in The Grain of Dust also staged at the Criterion.


see also

Poil de carotte

In 1903, Charles Frohman produced an English-language version called Carrots with Ethel Barrymore playing François.