- (1918 - 1951) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1918) Stage Play: Her Honor, the Mayor. Written by Arlien Van Hines. Fulton Theatre: 20 May 1918- Jun 1918 (closing date unknown/16 performances). Cast: Arthur Cornell, Edward Fielding, Ruth Garland, Margalo Gillmore, Ada Gilman, Etienne Girardot, Laura Nelson Hall, Brandon Hurst, Marion Kerby, Auriol Lee, Olive May, Charles H. Meredith, Florence Pendleton, Julia Reinhardt, Amelia Summerville, Zolya Talma [Broadway debut]. Produced by Actors' and Authors' Theatre Inc.
- (1919) Stage Play: Mis' Nelly of N'Orleans. Written by Laurence Eyre. Henry Miller's Theatre: 4 Feb 1919- May 1919 (closing date unknown/127 performances). Cast: Eva Benton (as "Zephyrine"), Frederic Burt (as "Pere Andre Clement"), Joseph Dunn (as "Unc' Boze"), Mrs. Fiske (as "Nelly Daventry"), Irene Haisman (as "Delphine Falaise"), Doris Moore (as "Angelique"), Georges Renavent (as "Felix Durand"), Hamilton Revelle (as "Georges Durand"), Zolya Talma (as "Melanie"). Produced by Cohan & Harris.
- (1920) Stage Play: The Checkerboard. Comedy.
- (1921) Stage Play: Near Santa Barbara. Melodrama. Written by Willard Mack. Greenwich Village Theatre: 31 Jan 1921- Feb 1921 (closing date unknown/15 performances). Cast: Charles S. Abbe (as "Mike McKenzie"), Luis Alberni (as "Ylario"), Clara Joel (as "Mrs. Bill Trainor"), Willard Mack (as "Mr. Bill Trainor"), Royal C. Stout (as "Bud Jenks"), Joseph Sweeney (as "Phil Yeager"), Zolya Talma (as "Ysobel"), T. Tamamoto (as "Nocka"), Howard Truesdell (as "Sheriff Wilson"). Produced by William H. Wellman.
- (1925) Stage Play: The Love Song. Musical/operetta. Music by Jacques Offenbach and Eduard Künneke. Selected and arranged by Edward Künneke. Lyrics by Harry B. Smith. From the Hungarian of Michael Nador and Eugene Ferago. From the German adaptation by James Klein and Carl Bretschneider. Musical Director: Alfred Goodman. Scenic Design by Watson Barratt. Costume Design by Ernest Schrapps and Hubert of Paris. Choreographed by Alexis Kosloff and Max Scheck. Entire production under the personal direction of J.J. Shubert. Directed by G. Latham. Century Theatre: 13 Jan 1925- 6 Jun 1925 (157 performances). Cast: James Alderman (as "Duroc"), Virginia Allen (as "Chorus"), Helen Allerton (as "Chorus"), Lucita Arnold (as "Chorus"), Mary Arnoldi (as "Chorus"), Shelton Bentley (as "Chorus"), Harrison Brockbank (as "Napoleon III"), Grace Carlyle (as "Countess Castiglione"), Florence Cazelle (as "Chorus"), Nancy Corrigan (as "Chorus"), Nikola Cunningham (as "Chorus"), Ethel Darcy (as "Chorus"), Berma Deane (as "Chorus"), Margaret Draper (as "Chorus"), John Dunsmure (as "Colonel Bugeaud"), Beatrice Durant (as "Chorus"), Louise Farrar (as "Chorus"), Dorothy Francis (as "Eugenie de Montijo"), Miriam Franklin (as "Chorus"), Faye Gilmore (as "Chorus"), Harry Glover (as "Prosper Merimee/Chorus"), Mary Graham (as "Chorus"), Mr. Greenwood (as "Chorus"), Dorothy Harrington (as "Chorus"), Laura Hastings (as "Chorus/Corinne"), Evelyn Herbert (as "Herminie"), Vera Hoppe (as "Chorus/Mlle. Marceau"), Adele Howard (as "Franchette/Chorus"), J.W. Hull (as "Victorian Sardou/Chorus"), Paul Keast (as "First Officer/Chorus"), Arthur Kellar (as "Chorus"), Walter Kelly (as "Lackey/Chorus"), Donald Kinleyside (as "Lieutenant"), Antoinette LaFarge (as "Chorus"), Nita Lamabrid (as "Chorus"), Marie Lavelle (as "Chorus"), William Lawley (as "Pierre"), Sophie Lubin (as "Chorus"), Vivian Marlowe (as "Mme. de Marsac/Chorus"), Ila McCall (as "Chorus"), John Moore (as "The Duke de Persigny/Chorus"), Harry K. Morton (as "Petipas"), Bobbie Muir (as "Chorus"), Odette Myrtil (as "Hortense"), Inga Neilson (as "Chorus"), Allan Prior (as "Offenbach"), Camille Robenette (as "Chorus/Margot"), W.L. Robertson (as "Chorus/Second Officer"), Isabelle Rodrigues (as "Spanish Dancer"), Zella Russell (as "Lizette"), Catherine Smith (as "Chorus"), Charlotte Sprague (as "Chorus"), William St. James (as "Bourbon"), Edna Starck (as "Babette/Chorus"), Doris Stewart (as "Chorus"), Evelyn Stone (as "Chorus"), Julia Strong (as "Chorus"), Zolya Talma (as "Gypsy Girl"), Armand Vecsey (as "Chorus"), Jeanne Voltaire (as "Chorus"), Eda Von Buelow (as "Countess de Montijo"), Charles Walters (as "Jacques d'Alcain"), Eleanor Whitmore (as "Chorus"), Eleanor Wilson (as "Chorus"), Alvina Zolle (as "Chorus"). Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1925) Stage Play: The Morning After. Comedy. Written by Len D. Hollister and Leona Stephens. Directed by Lester Lonergan. Hudson Theatre: 27 Jul 1925- Aug 1925 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Arthur Aylesworth (as "Ambrose Guthrie"), Constance Beaumar (as "Mrs. Guthrie") [final Broadway role], Donald Foster, Kay Johnson, Anne Morrison, Gypsy O'Brien (as "Mrs. Lamb"), Zolya Talma (as "Mrs. Dickie Deming"), Verree Teasdale (as "Mrs. Madera"), A.H. Van Buren (as "Will Sumner"), Emma Wise. Produced by L.M. Simmons.
- (1925) Stage Play: Stronger Than Love. Written by Dario Niccodemi. Directed by Alfred Hickman and Frederick Stanhope. Belasco Theatre: 28 Dec 1925- Feb 1926 (closing date unknown/49 performances). Cast: Patricia Calvert (as "Florence Lumley"), Julia Duncan (as "Louise'), Ralph Forbes (as "Marius"), Echlin Gayer (as "Jean"), Katherine Grey (as "Countess de Bernois"), Borden Harriman (as "Gaston"), Lucille Husting (as "Marie"), Ernest Lawford (as "Regnault"), Beresford Lovett (as "Lord Michael Lumley"), Nance O'Neil (as "Anna de Bernois, Duchess de Nievres"), Frederick Perry (as "His Eminence Monseigneur Guido de Bernois"), Lois Ross (as "Marguerita"), Zolya Talma (as "Laura Regnault"). Produced by Carl Reed.
- (1926) Stage Play: Mama Loves Papa. Comedy. Written by Jack McGowan and Mann Page. Directed by John Hayden. Forrest Theatre: 22 Feb 1926- Mar 1926 (closing date unknown/25 performances). Cast: Spencer Bentley (as "Jim"), Helen Broderick (as "Margie Drake"), Alice Dunn, John E. Hazzard (as "Fred Harrington"), Claire Hooper (as "Louise"), Robert Emmett Keane (as "Sonny Whitmore"), Ann Martin (as "Ruth"), Frank Milan (as "Henry") [Broadway debut], Lorin Raker (as "Joe Turner"), John Ravold (as "Pop"), William Roselle (as "Gene Drake"), Sara Sothern (as "Nan Turner"), Zolya Talma (as "Mlle. Desiree"), Albert Tovell (as "Mills"), John C. White (as "Tod"). Produced by Oxford Producing Company.
- (1926) Stage Play: Kept. Comedy.
- (1927) Stage Play: Where's Your Husband? Farce. Written by Ben S. Gross. Directed by George Bamman. Greenwich Village Theatre: 14 Jan 1927- Jan 1927 9closing date unknown/19 performances). Cast: Eugene Donovan (as "Tony Blanchard"), Alice Fischer (as "Eliza Scroggins"), Mark Haight (as "Bobbie Ellsworth"), Sam Hines (as "Billy Weston"), Betty Laurence (as "Elsie Benson"), Harry Lewellyn (as "Daniel Scroggins"), Myron Paulson (as "Steve Benson"), Kate Roemer [credited as Kate Pierce Roemer] (as "Mazie Macumber"), Zolya Talma (as "Mary Weston"). Produced by George Bamman.
- (1927) Stage Play: Lally. Written by Henry Stillman. Directed by John D. Williams. Greenwich Village Theatre: 8 Feb 1927- Apr 1927 (closing date unknown/63 performances). Cast: Patricia Barclay (as "Isolde Lally"), France Bendtsen (as "Malvinski"), Robert Collyer (as "Stravinski Lally"), F.H. Day (as "Cranston Thompson"), Genevieve Dolaro (as "Angelique"), Augusta Durgeon (as "Elizabeth Lally"), Gerald Hamer (as "Archibald Higgins"), Helen Kingstead (as "Brunhilde Lally"), Benedict MacQuarrie (as "Izzyitch"), Reginald Malcolm (as "Ronald Byrde"), Kate McComb (as "Matilda"), Owen Meech (as "Giovanni"), Anne Morrison (as "Judith Montifiori"), Erin O'Brien-Moore (as "Elsa Lally"), Claude Rains (as "Lally"), Zolya Talma (as "Felicia").
- (1928) Stage Play: The Great Necker. Comedy.
- (1929) Stage Play: Zeppelin.
- (1933) Stage Play: Evensong. Written by Edward Knoblock and Beverley Nichols. Adapted from a novel by Beverley Nichols. Directed by Paul Smythe. Selwyn Theatre: 31 Jan 1933- Feb 1933 (closing date unknown/15 performances). Cast: Walter Armin (as "Julius Rosenberg"), Jacob Ben-Ami (as "Arthur Kober"), Holland Bennett, Luis Bruno, Brian Buchel, Reginald Carrington, Hugh F. S. Casson, Marjorie Chard, Doris Crandall, Willard Dashiell, Natalie Davis, Owen Davis Jr., Claude Disney-Roebuck, John Dunn, Edith Evans, Jane Evans, Beatrix Fielden-Kaye, Walter Fitzgerald, Freda Gaye, Leyla Georgie, Alice Griswold, Leopoldo Gutierrez, Joan Hamilton, Gladys Hanson, Florence Heller, Natalie Hess, Jean Howard, Frederick Jordan, Helen Judge, Virginia Ann Kaye, Frederick Leister, Christine Lindsay, A.C. Fotheringham-Lysons, Nellie Malcolm, Mary Melhado, Mary Morrison, Florence Selwyn, Hilda Spong (as "Nurse Phillips"), Margot Stevenson (as "Guest"), Ripples Swan, Zolya Talma (as "Señora De Carranza"), William J. Tannen, Dennis Val-Norton, Harry Warwick, Jane Wyatt (as "Pauline Lacey"), Valerie Ziegler. Produced by Archibald Selwyn and Sir Barry Jackson.
- (1935) Stage Play: Prisoners of War. Drama. Written by J.R. Ackerly. Directed by Frank Merlin. Ritz Theatre: 28 Jan 1935- Feb 1935 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Daisy Belmore (as "Mrs. Prendergast"), Francis Compton (as "Lieutenant Adelby"), Lowell Gilmore (as "Lieutenant Tetford"), Barton Hepburn (as "Captain Conrad'), Alfred Hesse (as "Dr. Croz"), Charles McClelland (as "Captain Rickman"), Dorothee Nolan (as "Marie"), John Parrish (as "Jellerton"), Ben Starkie (as "Second Lieutenant Grayle"), Zolya Talma (as "Madame Louis"). Produced by Frank Merlin.
- (1939) Stage Play: The World We Make. Drama. Written by Sidney Kingsley. Based on the novel "The Outward Room" by Millen Brand. Directed by Sidney Kingsley. Guild Theatre: 20 Nov 1939- 27 Jan 1940 (80 performances). Cast: Carroll Ashburn (as "Mr. McKay"), Eloise Bouldin, Solen Burry, Nick Dennis, Erwin Edwards, Rudolph Forster, Harold Gary, Daga Hammond, Dagmar Hampf, Lee Harrett, Billie Haywood, Louise Huntington, May King, Eve March, Margo as "Virginia McKay"), Katherine Murphy, James O'Rear, Kasia Orzaweski, Joseph Pevney (as "Jim Kohler"), Randolph Preston, Florence Redd, Frank Richards, Bonnie Roberts, Eric Roberts, Herbert Rudley, Thelma Schnee, Ruth Sherrill, Harold J. Stone (as "Mr. Zubriski"), Buddy Swan (as "Danny"), Zolya Talma (as "Mrs. McKay"), Jerome Thor (as "Third Laundry Truckman"), Mildred Truppo, Albert Vees, Tito Vuolo. Produced by Sidney Kingsley.
- (1940) Stage Play: Romantic Mr. Dickens.
- (1944) Stage Play: For Keeps. Comedy. Written by F. Hugh Herbert Scenic Design by Raymond Sovey. Henry Miller's Theatre: 14 Jun 1944- 8 Jul 1944 (29 performances). Cast: George Baxter (as "Terry"), Grover Burgess (as "Frank"), Norma Clerc (as "June"), Frank Conroy (as "Paul Vanda"), Joseph R. Garry (as "Charlie"), Pat Kirkland [credited as Patricia Kirkland] (as "Nancy Vanda") [Broadway debut], Geoffrey Lumb (as "Mr. Reamer"), Ellen Mahar (as "Anna"), Donald Murphy (as "Jimmy McCarey"), Zolya Talma (as "Miss Maxwell"), Julie Warren (as "Pamela Vanda"), Joan Wetmore (as "Norma"). Produced by Gilbert Miller.
- (1944) Stage Play: Sadie Thompson.
- (1948) Stage Play: Bravo! Written by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. Scenic Design by Leo Kerz. Costume Design by Rose Bogdanoff. Evening gowns for Miss Darvas and Miss Talma by Castillo. Lyceum Theatre: 11 Nov 1948- 18 Dec 1948 (44 performances). Cast: Oscar Homolka (as "Zoltan Lazko"), Lili Darvas (as "Rosa Rucker"), King Calder (as "Wallace"), Jean Carson, Oliver Cliff, Frank Conroy (as "Jeffrey Crandall"), George Cotton, Janet Fox, Christiane Grautoff, Arthur Havel, Morton Havel, Elena Karam, Kevin McCarthy (as "Kurt Heger"), Fritzi Scheff, Edgar Stehli (as "Martin Link"), Zolya Talma (as "Stephanie"). Produced by Max Gordon.
- (1951) Stage Play: Diamond Lil. Comedy/melodrama (revival).
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