Melvyn Douglas was cast as the senior Clement Sturgess, a nephew of Sgt Edgar Sturgess.
Douglas is a granddaughter of the actor Melvyn Douglas and his first wife, artist Rosalind Hightower, and has said that her grandfather's performance in Being There, in particular, was influential on her own career.
The play starred Melvyn Douglas as Tommy Thurston, newspaper reporter and was produced by Archer King and Harrison Woodhull.
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It stands alone between Melvyn Douglas's The Lone Wolf Returns in 1935, and the first of Warren William's series of nine, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt, released the following year.
Crawford insisted that Melvyn Douglas (with whom she had appeared in the 1938 flop The Shining Hour) star opposite her.