- (1925 - 1947) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1925) Stage Play: Episode. Comedy/drama. Written by Gilbert Emery. Directed by Melville Burke. Bijou Theatre: 4 Feb 1925- Feb 1925 (closing date unknown/21 performances). Cast: William Courtleigh (as "Arnold Ryesdale"), Gilbert Emery, Kathleen MacDonnell, Edmund Norris, Eugene Powers, Eva Ward. Produced by Lee Shubert.
- (1925) Stage Play: Bachelors' Brides. Comedy/farce. Written by Charles Horace Malcolm. Directed by Melville Burke. Cort Theatre: 28 May 1925- Jun 1925 (closing date unknown/22 performances). Cast: Charles Davis, Ann Delafield, Walter Kingsford (as "Robert/Percy's Bodyguard"), Aline McDermott, Percy Norman, Lee Patrick (as "Mary Bowing/Percy's Guardian Angel"), Edward Poland, Olive Reeves-Smith (as "Mrs. Cecil Combemere/Percy's Friend"), Frank Sherlock, Horace Sinclair (as "Mr. Cecil Combemere/Percy's Menace"), George Spavin. Produced by Raye and Co., Inc
- (1927) Stage Play: Excess Baggage. Comedy. Written by John McGowan. Musical Director: Morris Zentner. Featuring songs by Ray Henderson. Featuring songs with lyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylva. Musical Staging by Johnny Boyle. Directed by Melville Burke. Ritz Theatre: 26 Dec 1927- 30 Jun 1928 (216 performances). Cast: The Admirals, Maud Blair, Nace Bonville, William Boula, Herbert Clark, Charles Dalton, John Dilson (as "Frank Arnold"), Mort Downey, Eric Dressler (as "Eddie Kane"), Vladimir Dubinsky, Doris Eaton, Frances Goodrich, Miriam Hopkins (as "Elsa McCoy"), Frank Horton, Boyd Marshall, Frank McHugh (as "Jimmy Dunn"), Howard Morgan, Lawrence O'Sullivan, Merald Tollefsen, Denton Vane, Suzanne Willa. Produced by Barbour, Crimmins & Bryant.
- (1928) Stage Play: Her Unborn Child. Written by Howard McKent Barnes and Grace Hayward. Directed by Melville Burke. Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre: 5 Mar 1928- Apr 1928 (closing date unknown/47 performances). Cast: Margaret Byers, Elisha Cook Jr., William Corbett, Pauline Drake, Theodore Hecht, Ivy Mertons, Lea Penman (as "Miss Conover"), Effie Shannon. Produced by Majestic Productions. Inc.
- (1928) Stage Play: The Buzzard.
- (1928) Stage Play: The K Guy. Comedy. Written by Walter DeLeon and Alethea Luce. Directed by Melville Burke. Biltmore Theatre: 15 Oct 1928- Oct 1928 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Faye Armstrong (as "Priscilla Golden"), Francis Compton (as "Prince Mohammed Ali"), John H. Dilson (as "Mr. Sammelberg"), Harry Green (as "Jimmy Carol"), Jeanne Greene (as "Sadie Kelly"), Arthur Jarrett (as "Tom Kush"), A. Ryder Keane (as "Tiny"), Edward Keane (as "Big Bill Wysell"), Frank McDonald (as "Curley"), Constance McKay (as "Jane Meadow"), Myrtle Miller (as "Jessie May"), Ralph Murphy (as "Frank Toney"), Jessamine Newcombe (as "Mrs. Stevens"), George Nolan (as "Reggie Manville"), Alan Ward (as "The Kid"). Produced by Irving Yates and Charles Yates.
- (1928) Stage Play: To-Night at 12. Written by Owen Davis. Directed by Melville Burke. Hudson Theatre: 13 Nov 1928- Jan 1929 (closing date unknown/60 performances). Cast: Patricia Barclay (as "Jane Eldridge), Spring Byington (as "Barbara Warren"), Gerald Cornell (as "Joe"), William David (as "Bill Warren"), Owen Davis Jr. (as "Tony Keith"), Diane Esmonde (as "Nan Stoddard"), Viola Frayne (as "Mary"), Moffat Johnston (as "Prof. Eldridge"), Florence Rittenhouse (as "Dora Eldridge"), William Roselle (as "John Keith"), Ann Shoemaker (as "Alice Keith"), Florence Short (as "Ellen"), Edward H. Wever (as "Tom Stoddard"). Produced by Herman Shumlin. Note: Filmed as Tonight at Twelve (1929).
- (1929) Stage Play: Precious. Comedy/farce. Written by James Forbes. Directed by Melville Burke. Royale Theatre: 14 Jan 1929- Feb 1929 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Howard Benton, John Cumberland, Jules Epailly (as "Alvarez"), Dorothy Hall, Hale Hamilton (as "Luke Radcliffe"), Edward Leiter (as "Oliver Denton"), Frances McHugh (as "Alice"), Verree Teasdale (as "Sonia"), Cora Witherspoon (as "Stella Peck"). Produced by Rosalie Stewart.
- (1931) Stage Play: Privilege Car. Melodrama.
- (1931) Stage Play: Just to Remind You.
- (1931) Stage Play: A Church Mouse. Written by Ladislas Fodor. Scenic Design by Livingston Platt. Directed by Melville Burke. Playhouse Theatre: 12 Oct 1931- Mar 1932 (closing date unknown/164 performances). Cast: Charles S. Abbe (as "Jackson") [final Broadway role], Charles Campbell (as "Baron Frank von Ullrich"), Wallace Erskine (as "Count von Talheim"), Ruth Gordon (as "Susie Sachs"), John Gray (as "Chapple"), Louise Kirtland (as "Olly Frey"), Bert Lytell (as "Baron Thomas von Ullrich"). Produced by William A. Brady Ltd.
- (1932) Stage Play: Adam Had Two Sons. Written by John McDermott. Directed by Melville Burke. Alvin Theatre: 20 Jan 1932- Jan 1932 (closing date unknown/5 performances). Cast: Jay Adair (as "Ed"), Pilar Arcos (as "The Fat Girl"), Lola Bazan, Herbert Belmore, Muriel Campbell (as "Hostess"), Alexander Cross (as "Joe") [Broadway debut], Aristides de Leoni, Harry DeKoven, Johanne Douglas, Evelyn Downing, Walter Farrell, Preston Foster (as "Leary"), Gilberti Fray, Genevieve Frizzell, Helen Glenn, Raymond Hackett (as "Kid"), Marshall Hale, Frank Horton, John Junior, Paul Kelly (as "Matt"), Constance Kerr, Harry Klint, Edward La Roche (as "Pablo"), Daniel Marenko, Franklin Munnell, Raquel Torres (as "Teresa"), Regine Valdy, James Young. Produced by Alex. A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley.
- (1932) Stage Play: Collision. Comedy.
- (1932) Stage Play: Bulls, Bears and Asses. Written by Milton Herbert Gropper. Directed by Melville Burke. Playhouse Theatre: 6 May 1932- May 1932 (closing date unknown/2 performances). Cast: Joseph Allen, Robert Barrat (as "Delroy"), Elise Bartlett (as "Mrs. Fisher"), Sally Bates, Arden Benlain, Roman Bohnen (as "Dr. Hollis"), Egon Brecher (as "The Baron"), Edward Butler, Hobart Cavanaugh (as "Charlie Moore"), Ashley Cooper, Griffin Crafts, Jessie Graham, Joseph Greenwald, Francesca Hill, Len D. Hollister, Clifford Jones, Irene Lee (as "Betty Grant"), Ann Lowenworth, Frederick Malcolm, David Manley, Frank McDonald, Jane Mullin, Franklyn Munnell, John Daly Murphy (as "Brown"), Olive Reeves-Smith, Jack Rigo, William Roselle (as "Starr"), Lillian Savin, Robert Shayne, Ralph Simone (as "Rocco"), Louis Sorin, Howard St. John (as "Murdock"), Paul Stewart (as "Merwin"), Virginia Tracy, Lew Welch, Huntly Weston, Salvatore Zito. Note: Frederick Malcolm may be Fred Waring.
- (1932) Stage Play: The Perfect Marriage. Written by Arthur Goodrich. Scenic Design by Rollo Wayne. Directed by Melville Burke. Bijou Theatre: 16 Nov 1932- Nov 1932 (closing date unknown/13 performances). Cast: Fay Bainter (as "Louise Morel"), Edith Barrett (as "Suzanne, Bernard's Wife"), George Baxter (as "Georges Fleury"), George Gaul (as "Bernard Catalan"), Harold Gould (as "Henri, the Son- Acts I and III/Henri, the Father") [Broadway debut], Jackie Kelk (as "Henri, the Son- Act II"). Produced by William Caryl.
- (1933) Stage Play: A Saturday Night. Comedy. Written by Owen Davis. Directed by Melville Burke. Playhouse Theatre: 28 Feb 1933- Apr 1933 (closing date unknown/40 performances). Cast: Jane Corcoran (as "Annie"), Robert Courtleigh (as "Fred Dorris"), Owen Davis Jr. (as "Peter Cary"), Richard Jack (as "Ted"), Arthur Margetson (as "Dick Carrington"), Warren McCollum (as "Bill Cary"), Hugh O'Connell (as "Jim Langdon"), Addison Pitt (as "Doctor Morton"), Joseph Striker (as "Anthony Kirk"), June Webster (as "Lena"), Peggy Wood (as "Marguerite Langdon"), Elizabeth Young (as "Sally"). Produced by William A. Brady.
- (1934) Stage Play: Queer People. Comedy. Written by John Floyd, from a novel by Carroll Graham and Garrett Graham. Directed by Melville Burke. National Theatre: 15 Feb 1934- Feb 1934 (closing date unknown/12 performances). Cast: Frank Allworth (as "Edward Worth, A Policeman"), Flavia Arcaro (as "Madame Frankie Lee") [final Broadway role], Joseph Burton, Kay Carlin, Helen Claire, Colleen Cooper, "Peppy" D'Albrew, Willard Dashiell (as "John Grew"), Frank De Sylva, James Fallon, Walter Fenner, Dwight Frye, Gladys George, Wesley Givens (as "Bartender"), Jerry Hausner (as "Sammy Schmaltz"), Marga Herden, Herbert Heywood, Milly June, Larry Keating [credited as Lawrence Keating] (as "Milton Hoffberger") [final Broadway role], Billie Kemp, Walter Kevan, Ruth Lee, James Levers, Leonard Lord, Sylvia Manners, Edna Mears, Nita Naldi, Charles O'Connor, Frank Otto (as "Henry McGinnis"), Clara Palmer, Arthur Pierson (as "Gilbert Vance"), William Roselle, W.W. Shuttleworth, Hal Skelly, Ming Soy, Harry Vokes (as "Pop Schmaltz"), J. Arthur Young. Produced by Galen Boque.
- (1934) Stage Play: All Rights Reserved. Comedy. Written by Irving Kaye Davis. Directed by Melville Burke. Ritz Theatre: 6 Nov 1934- Dec 1934 (closing date unknown/31 performances). Cast: Rowena Aubert (as "A Spinster"), Ollie Burgoyne (as "Minnie"), King Calder (as "Robert Bradley"), Allan Dailey (as "A Young Man"), Helene Dumas (as "Mae"), Shirley Gale (as "Miss Tobison"), Shirley Gibbs (as "A Young Woman"), Thurston Hall (as "Jack Huffaker"), William Harrigan (as "Philip Frampton"), Violet Heming (as "Josie Frampton"), Louis Jean Heydt (as "Percival Lockwood"), Ruth Sheppard, C. Ellsworth Smith (as "Expressman"), Russell Thayer. Produced by Joseph Pollak.
- (1935) Stage Play: Remember the Day.
- (1936) Stage Play: Mid-West. Drama.
- (1936) Stage Play: Come Angel Band. Drama. Written by Dudley Nichols and Stuart Anthony. Directed by Melville Burke. 46th Street Theatre: 18 Feb 1936- Feb 1936 (closing date unknown/2 performances). Cast: Arthur Barrows, Burke Clarke (as "Parson Edwards"), Frank Conlan, Elisha Cook Jr. (as "Bird"), Curtis Cooksey (as "Fate Shannon"), Clarice Cornell, J. Hammond Dailey, Joseph Eggerton, Victor Esker, Elvin Field, Joyce Gates, Arthur Griffin, J. Louis Johnson, Lester Lonergan III, Eleanor Lynn, Frederick Maynard, Edgar Nelson, Robert Pitkin, Robert Taber, George R. Taylor, Walter Wagner, Iris Whitney (as "Beulah Shannon"), Frank Wilcox (as "Sheriff Garr"), Robert Woods. Produced by Eugene Walter.
- (1936) Stage Play: White Man. Written by Samson Raphaelson. Directed by Melville Burke. National Theatre: 17 Oct 1936- Oct 1936 (closing date unknown/7 performances). Cast: Adolph Aiken (as "Negroes of Harlem"), Eddie Baer (as "Negroes of Harlem"), George Baxter (as "Richard Arlington"), Sam Byrd (as "Paul Grimm"), Louise Campbell (as "Mary Nile"), Nancy Cushman (as "Greta"), Clarence Evans (as "Negroes of Harlem"), Sylvia Field (as "Pansy Washington"), Harold Gould (as "Rufus Nile"), William Coley Grant (as "Archie"), Mary Jeffery (as "A Nurse"), Edward Mathews (as "Negroes of Harlem"), Patsy Ruth Miller (as "Lucy Arlington"), Jessamine Newcombe (as "Countess Fillipe"), Louise Reynolds (as "Negroes of Harlem"), Frank Swift (as "Negroes of Harlem"), William Walker (as "Stanley"), Marietta Warren (as "Archie's Wife"), Leigh Whipper (as "A Negro Minister"). Produced by Sam Byrd.
- (1937) Stage Play: A House in the Country. Comedy. Written by Melvin Levy. Scenic Design by P. Dodd Ackerman. Directed by Melville Burke. Vanderbilt Theatre: 11 Jan 1937- Jan 1937 (closing date unknown/7 performances). Cast : Leon Ames (as "Mac"), Teddy Bergman (as "Joe"), Elmer Brown (as "Bean"), Louise Campbell, Will Geer (as "Mr. Mooney"), Roy Gordon (as "Mr. Knox"), Alfred Herrick (as "Herman Sigafoos"), Puck Powers (as "President, Frankie's dog"), Tom Powers (as "Frankie Lotzgazel"), Fredrica Slemons (as "Gramma Alladay Lotzgazel"). Produced by Murray Jay Queen.
- (1937) Stage Play: Love in My Fashion. Comedy. Written by Charles George. Directed by Melville Burke. Ritz Theatre: 3 Dec 1937- Dec 1937 (closing date unknown/2 performances). Cast: Dorothy Bernard, Julio Brown, Claire Carleton, Ruth Chorpenning, William David, Day Eliot, Luella Gear, Tookie Hunter, Richard Jack, Louise Kirtland, Thais Lawton (as "Mrs. Robert Andrews"), Donald MacKenzie, Sherling Oliver, G. Albert Smith (as "Christopher Coffman"). Produced by Morris Green and James J. Fero.
- (1939) Stage Play: Off to Buffalo. Comedy. Written by Allen Boretz and Max Liebman. Scenic Design by Donald Oenslager. Directed by Melville Burke. Ethel Barrymore Theatre: 21 Feb 1939- Feb 1939 (7 performances). Cast: Matt Briggs (as "Barkas"), Frank Camp (as "Pop Clifford"), Nat Cantor (as "Maxie Kromm"), Peggy Chamberlain (as "Blossom"), Dudley Clements (as "Johnson"), Joe Cook (as "Gus Delaney"), Fay Courtney (as "Fanny Franum"), Hume Cronyn (as "Harry Quill"), George Dewey (as "The Flying Martels"), William Dewey (as "The Flying Martels"), Edmund Dorsay (as "Sprung"), Joan Engel (as "Lottie"), Otto Hulett (as "Gabby O'Keefe"), James Kelso (as "Phil Gordon"), Burton Lewis Jr. (as "Delivery Boy"), Fred Lightner (as "Johnny Melba"), Elizabeth Love (as "Evelyn Quill"), Martell Brothers (as "Pepe Brothers"), G. Albert Smith (as "McChesney"), Richard Taber (as "Mannheim"), Henry H. Tobias (as "Gill"), Luba Wesoly (as "Tuni"), Albert West (as "Laundry Man"), Harold Whalen (as "Bloom"). Produced by Albert Lewis.
- (1939) Stage Play: Sea Dogs. Melodrama.
- (1941) Stage Play: Little Dark Horse.
- (1943) Stage Play: The Barber Had Two Sons. Melodrama. Written by Thomas Duggan and Thomas Hogan. Directed by Melville Burke. Playhouse Theatre: 1 Feb 1943- 20 Feb 1943 (23 performances). Cast: Edith Angold (as "Mrs. Alta Hjalmer"), James Bass (as "Captain Ulmer'), Walter Brooke' (as "Johann Mathieson"), Fairfax Burger (as "Carl Nagel"), James Darrell (as "Corporal Heimer"), Steve Darrell (as "Customer"), Eddy Fields (as "Colonel Schmidt"), Hanns Kolmar (as "1st German Soldier"), Richard O'Connor (as "Sergeant Brunnemann"), Richard Powers (as "Christian Mathieson"), Tutta Rolf (as "Karen Borson"), Walter Soderling (as "Lunke Hjalmer"), Anita Vengay (as "Hilda"), Joseph Wiseman (as "2nd German Soldier"), J. Arthur Young (as "Rudolph Bjorin Nilsen"), Blanche Yurka (as "Ma/Mrs. Mathieson"), Alfred Zeisler (as "Major Bowmann"), Wolfgang Zilzer (as "Lars Tugar"). Produced by Jess Smith.
- (1943) Stage Play: Slightly Married. Farce. Written by Aleen Leslie. Scenic Design by Phil Raiguel. Cort Theatre: 25 Oct 1943- 30 Oct 1943 (8 performances). Cast: Leon Ames (as "Brian Quin"), Mona Barrie (as "Josie Dowling"), Scotty Beckett (as "Stanley Quin") [only Broadway role], Kate Harrington (as "Hortense"), Robert Horton (as "Ambulance Driver") [Broadway debut], Kathryn Keya (as "Lisa Ward"), Leona Maricle (as "Audrey Quin"), Isabel O'Madigan (as "Grandma Jamison"), Patty Pope (as "Margaret Quin"), Tom Seidel (as "Terry Jamison"), Teddi Sherman (as "Bella"), Jimmie Smith (as "Keith Morehouse"). Produced by Melville Burke.
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