Getting Gertie's Garter (play)
| Getting Gertie's Garter | |
|---|---|
 Contemporary newspaper advertisement. | |
| Written by | Wilson Collison, Avery Hopwood |
| Date premiered | August 1, 1921 |
| Place premiered | Republic Theatre |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Farce |
Getting Gertie's Garter is a play written by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood. Producer A. H. Woods staged it on Broadway, where it opened at the Republic Theatre on August 1, 1921.[1] Hazel Dawn played the role of Gertie. The play was a sex farce, but unlike most productions of its type, the setting was a hayloft instead of a bedroom.[2] It was a success at the box office, running for 15 weeks with 120 performances on Broadway, then moving to touring companies.[1]
The play had tryouts starting in Brooklyn, then in Boston and Chicago under the reduced title of Gertie's Garter. Dawn found her role unsatisfying due to its similarity to her part in Up in Mabel's Room, an earlier farce produced by Woods, but stuck with the show. She eventually left the Broadway production in September to take the lead in another Woods-produced farce, The Demi-Virgin.
Adaptations
The play was adapted as a movie three times:[3]
- Getting Gertie's Garter (1927)
- Night of the Garter (1933)
- Getting Gertie's Garter (1945)
References
- 1 2 Hischak, Thomas S. (2009). Broadway Plays and Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Facts of More Than 14,000 Shows through 2007. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-7864-3448-0.
- ↑ Wainscott, Ronald Harold (1997). The Emergence of the Modern American Theater, 1914-1929. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. pp. 57–59. ISBN 0-300-06776-3. OCLC 35128122.
- ↑ Roberts, Jerry (2003). The Great American Playwrights on the Screen: A Critical Guide to Film, TV, Video and DVD. New York: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books. p. 254. ISBN 1-55783-512-8.