- (1903 - 1944) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1903) Stage Play: Merely Mary Ann. Drama. Written by Israel Zangwill. Featuring the song "Kiss Me Good-Night, Dear" by Malcolm Williams Directed by Charles Cartwright. Garden Theatre (moved to The Criterion Theatre from 15 Feb 1904- unknown, then moved to The Garrick Theatre from 4 Apr 1904- close): 28 Dec 1903- May 1904 (closing date unknown/148 performances). Cast: Laura Hope Crews (as "Rosie") [Broadway debut], Edwin Arden, Herbert Carr, Julia Dean, Frank Doane, Ada Dwyer, Margaret Fuller, Thomas Graham, William Hackett [credited as William A. Hackett], Ida Lewis, Kate Pattison Selton, Henry Robinson, Eleanor Robson Belmont [credited as Eleanor Robson] , Marguerite St. John, Arthur Story, Ethel Strickland, Mabel Strickland. Produced by Liebler & Co. Notes: (1) Play was considered a huge hit by the standards of the day. (2) Filmed by Fox Film Corporation as Merely Mary Ann (1916), by Fox Film Corporation as Merely Mary Ann (1920), and by Fox Film Corporation as Merely Mary Ann (1931) as a Janet Gaynor vehicle.
- (1904) Stage Play: Joseph Entangled. Comedy. Written by Henry Arthur Jones. Garrick Theatre: 10 Oct 1904- Dec 1904 (closing date unknown/65 performances). Cast included: Laura Hope Crews, Bertram Harrison. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1906) Stage Play: Brown of Harvard. Written by Rida Johnson Young. Incidental Music by Melville Ellis. Song in act two "When Love is Young" by Melville Ellis and Rida Johnson Young. Directed by Henry Miller. Princess Theatre: 26 Feb 1906- May 1906 (closing date unknown/101 performances). Cast: Henry Woodruff (as "Tom Brown"), William Resman Andrews, Homer Bassford, Catherine Calhoun, Laura Hope Crews (as "Evelyn Kenyon"), Howard Estabrook, Theodore Friebus, George Gerald, Robert Stowe Gill, Joseph H. Graybill, Howard Huselton, James Keating, Louis Le Bay, Kate Lester, Barry Mantle, Ethel Martin, G. Haven Peabody, Daniel Pennell, Abert Perry, Rchard Ridgely, William Rosell, Arthur Shaw, Mason Terry, Walter Thomas, Fred Thorne, Douglas J. Wood. Note: Filmed by Selig Polyscope Company [distributed by General Film Company] as Brown of Harvard (1911), by Perfection Pictures, Selig Polyscope Company [US distribution by George Kleine System/European distribution by Pathé Frères] as Brown of Harvard (1918), and by MGM as Brown of Harvard (1926) as a William Haines vehicle.
- (1906) Stage Play: The Great Divide. Drama. Written by William Vaughn Moody. Directed by Henry Miller. Princess Theatre: 3 Oct 1906- 24 Mar 1907 (238 performances). Cast: Margaret Anglin, William J. Butler, Laura Hope Crews (as "Polly Jordan"), Robert Cummings, Nolan Gagne, Charles Gotthold, Bertram Harrison (as "An Architect"), Henry Miller, Frederick Moore, Leon Roberts, Henry B. Walthall (as "Burt Williams"), Mrs. Thomas Whiffen (as "Mrs. Jordan"), Arnold Wilbur, Charles Wyngate. Replacement actors: Lous Bishop Hall, Edith Wynne Matthison (as "Ruth Jordan"). Produced by Henry Miller. Note: Produced on film as The Great Divide (1929).
- (1906) Stage Play: Hedda Gabler. Written by Henrik Ibsen. Princess Theatre: 13 Nov 1906- Dec 1906 (closing date unknown/40 performances). As "Thea Elvsted." Cast: John Blair, John Findlay, Mrs. Jacques Martin, Dodson Mitchell, Alla Nazimova (as "Hedda Tesman"), Mrs. Thomas Whiffen. Produced by Henry Miller.
- (1907) Stage Play: The Great Divide. Drama (return engagement).
- (1910) Stage Play: The Faith Healer. Written by William Vaughn Moody. Savoy Theatre: 19 Jan 1910- Jan 1910 (closing date unknown/6 performances). Cast: Mabel Bert, Jessie Bonstelle, Laura Hope Crews, Lillian Dix, Theodore Friebus, James Hagan (as "Lazarus") [Broadway debut], Gladys Hulette, Robert McWade, Henry Miller, Harold Russell (as "Matthew Beeler"), Edward See.
- (1910) Stage Play: Her Husband's Wife. Comedy. Written by A.E. Thomas. Directed by Henry Miller. Garrick Theatre: 10 May 1910- Jun 1910 (closing date unknown/48 performances). Cast: Mabel Burt, Orme Caldara, Laura Hope Crews, Grace Elliston, Elinor McEwen, Henry Miller, Robert Warwick. Produced by Klaw & Erlanger.
- (1911) Stage Play: The Havoc. Drama. Written by H.S. Sheldon. Bijou Theatre: 9 Jan 1911- Mar 1911 (closing date unknown/72 performances). Cast: Francis Byrne, Laura Hope Crews, Henry Miller, Daniel Pennell. Produced by Henry Miller.
- (1912) Stage Play: The Rainbow. Drama. Written by A.E. Thomas. Liberty Theatre: 11 Mar 1912- Jun 1912 (closing date unknown/104 performances). Cast: Edith Ellis Baker, Ruth Chatterton, Laura Hope Crews, Robert Stowe Gill, Charles Hammond, Hope Latham, Fania Marinoff, Ethel Martin, Henry Miller, Daniel Pennell, George C. Pierce, Effingham Pinto, Marie Porterin.
- (1913) Stage Play: Blackbirds.
- (1913) Stage Play: The Honeymoon. Written by Arnold Bennett. Lyceum Theatre: 24 Feb 1913 (1 performance). Cast: George W. Anson, Laura Hope Crews, Howard Estabrook, William Frazan, Ernest Lawford, Sarah Cowell Le Moyne, Albert Reed, Frank Reicher, Richard Sterling. Produced by Stage Society of New York.
- (1913) Stage Play: Her First Divorce. Written by C.W. Bell. Directed by Margaret Mayo. Comedy Theatre: 5 May 1913- May 1913 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Adora Andrews, Ruth Holt Boucicault, Laura Hope Crews, Julian L'Estrange, Harry Lillford, Crosby Little, Allan Pollock, Harold Russell. Produced by Harris & Selwyn.
- (1913) Stage Play: Much Ado About Nothing (Revival). Written by William Shakespeare. Empire Theatre: 1 Sep 1913- Sep 1913 (unknown closing date/24 performances). Cast: Nigel Barry, Mary Boland, Malcolm Bradley, Laura Hope Crews, Herbert Delmore, John Drew, Hubert Druce, Frank Elliott, Fred Eric, Annie Francis, Sidney Herbert, Frank Kemble-Cooper, Rexford Kendrick, Edward Longman, Bertram Marburgh, Walter Soderling, Henry Stephenson. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1913) Stage Play: The Tyranny of Tears. Written and directed by C. Haddon Chambers. Empire Theatre: 29 Sep 1913- Oct 1913 (closing date unknown/32 performances). Cast: Mary Boland, Laura Hope Crews, John Drew, Hubert Druce, Julian L'Estrange, Walter Soderling. Produced by Charles Frohman.
- (1914) Stage Play: The Phantom Rival. Written by Ferenc Molnár. Belasco Theatre: 6 Oct 1914- Jan 1915 (closing date unknown/127 performances). Cast: Lila Barclay [final Broadway role], John Bedouin, Laura Hope Crews, Leo Ditrichstein, J.M. McNamee, Anna McNaughton, Lee Millar, Frank E. Norris, Louis Poiselli, Ethel Marie Sasse, Frank Westerton, Malcolm Williams. Produced by David Belasco.
- (1915) Stage Play: The Chief.
- (1917) Stage Play: Her Husband's Wife.
- (1917) Stage Play: Peter Ibbetson.
- (1917) Stage Play: Romance and Arabella.
- (1918) Stage Play: A Pair of Petticoats. Written by Cyril Harcourt. A Pair of Petticoats (1918). Directed by Cyril Harcourt. Lew Fields' 44th Street Roof Garden (moved to the Bijou Theatre on 22 Apr 1918 to close): 18 Mar 1918- May 1918 (closing date unknown/80 performances). Cast: Laura Hope Crews, George Giddens, Ray Gordon, Maude Hanaford, Cyril Harcourt, Leonard Mudie, Byron Russell, Henry Travers, Norman Trevor.
- (1918) Stage Play: The Saving Grace. Written by C. Haddon Chambers. Empire Theatre: 30 Sep 1918- Dec 1918 (closing date unknown/96 performances). Cast: Laura Hope Crews (as "Mrs. Corbett"), William Devereux (as "William Hoag"), Edward Douglas (as "Ripley Guildford"), Charlotte Granville (as "Mrs. Guildford"), Annie Hughes (as "Ada Parsons"), Cyril Maude (as "Blinn Corbett"), Cathleen Nesbitt (as "Susan Blaine")/ Produced by Charles Frohman, Inc.
- (1919) Stage Play: On the Hiring Line.
- (1921) Stage Play: Mr. Pim Passes By. Comedy. Written by A.A. Milne. Directed by Philip Moeller. Garrick Theatre: 28 Feb 1921- Jun 1921 (closing date unknown/121 performances). Cast: Laura Hope Crews (as "Olivia"), Dudley Digges (as "George Marden, J.P."), Peggy Harvey Anne"), Leonard Mudie (as "Brian Strange"), Phyllis Povah (as "Dinah"), Erskine Sanford (as "Carraway Pim"), Helen Westley (as "Lady Marden"). Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1923) Stage Play: The Changelings. Comedy. Written by Lee Wilson Dodd. Henry Miller's Theatre: 17 Sep 1923- Jan 1924 (closing date unknown/128 performances). Cast: Walter Baldwin (as "Degan"), Blanche Bates (as "Karen Aldcroft"), Elmer Brown (as "Fisher"), Ruth Chatterton (as "Fay Faber"), Laura Hope Crews (as "Dora Faber"), Geoffrey Kerr (as "Wicky Faber"), Felix Krembs (as "Clyde Halstead"), Reginald Mason (as "Fenwick Faber"), Henry Miller (as "Wallace Aldcroft"). Produced by Henry Miller's Theater Co.
- (1924) Stage Play: Merry Wives of Gotham. Comedy. Written by Laurence Eyre. Henry Miller's Theatre: 16 Jan 1924- Apr 1924 (closing date unknown/96 performances). Cast: Bertha Ballenger (as "Denbeigh"), Berton Churchill (as "Lambart DeRhonde"), Arthur Cole (as "Andy Gorman"), Laura Hope Crews (as "Annie O'Tandy"), Mary Ellis (as "Brigid Shannahan/Ophelia O'Tandy"), Herbert Farjeon (as "Angelo"), Grace George (as "Anne DeRhonde"), Wlliam Hanley (as "Dirk DeRhonde"), Avis Hughes (as "Sister Mercedes"), Tom Maguire (as "Phelim Hennessy"), John Miltern (as "Major Fowler"), Mignon O'Doherty (as "Cathy Donovan/Widow Gorman"), Eddie Quinn (as "Jimminy"), William Quinn (as "Patsy/A Small Gorman"), Lewis A. Sealy (as "Pomeroy"), Arthur Sinclair (as "Seumas O'Tandy"), Judith Vosselli (as "Mother Agnes/Hudson Bess"), George Wilson (as "Paperhanger"), Ann Winston (as "Miss Mortimer"). Produced by Henry Miller.
- (1924) Stage Play: The Dream Girl. Musical. Music by Victor Herbert. Book by Rida Johnson Young and Harold Atteridge. Additional lyrics by Harold Atteridge. Lyrics by Rida Johnson Young. Based on a play by Beulah Marie Dix and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland. Musical Director: Oscar Bradley. Additional music by Sigmund Romberg. Choreographed by David Bennett. Scenic Design by Watson Barratt and Eleanor Abbott. Directed by J.C. Huffman and Laura Hope Crews. Ambassador Theatre: 20 Aug 1924- 29 Nov 1924 (117 performances). Cast: Virginia Allen (as "Ensemble"), Fay Bainter (as "Elspeth"), Kathleen Barrow (as "Ensemble"), Edward Basse (as "Ken Paulton"), Barbara Bennet (as "Specialty Dancer"), Fred Bush (as "Ensemble"), Chandler Christy (as "Ensemble"), John Clarke (as "Will Levison"), Dorothy Cola (as "Ensemble"), Ripples Covert (as "Ensemble"), Jeanette Dawley (as "Ensemble"), Dan Douglas (as "Ensemble"), Loretta Duffy (as "Specialty Dancer"), Edmund Fitzpatrick (as "Cristoforo"), Evelyn Grieg (as "Specialty Dancer"), Virginia Griffiths (as "Ensemble"), Lebanon Hoffa (as "Ensemble"), Sofie Jackson (as "Ensemble"), Velma Joffre (as "Ensemble"), Frank Kimball (as "Ensemble"), Joan Kroy (as "Ensemble"), Maurice Kuhlman (as "Ensemble"), George LeMaire (as "Wilson Addison"), Thomas Manahan (as "Ensemble"), Frank Masters (as "Bobby Thompkins"), Lida May (as "Ensemble"), Elizabeth Mears (as "Specialty Dancer/Ensemble"), Rena Miller (as "Ensemble"), Alice Moffat (as "Elinor Levison"), May O'Brien (as "Ensemble"), Maude Odell (as "Aunt Harriet"), William Oneal (as "Mr. Gillette/Antonio"), Clara Palmer (as "Nora"), Jack Parker (as "Ensemble"), Victoria Reigel (as "Ensemble"), Wyn Richmond (as "Dolly Follis"), Aimee Salter (as "Ensemble"), Virginia Sharr (as "Specialty Dancer"), Penn Thornton (as "Ensemble"), Billy B. Van [credited as Billie B. Van] (as "Jimmie Van Dyke"), Vivara (as "Malena"), Walter Woolf (as "Jack Warren"). Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert, by arrangement with Harold Atteridge.
- (1924) Stage Play: The Werewolf. Comedy. Written by Gladys Unger, from the original by Rudolph Lothar. 49th Street Theatre: 25 Aug 1924- Dec 1924 (closing date unknown/112 performances). Cast: Marion Coakley, Laura Hope Crews (as "Duchess of Capablanca"), Gaby Fleury, Leslie Howard (as "Paolo Moreira"), Ruth Mitchell, Edwin Nicander (as "Florencio De Viana"), Lennox Pawle (as "Eliphas Leone"), Sydney Paxton, Vincent Serrano. Produced by George B. McLellan.
- (1925) Stage Play: Ariadne. Comedy. Written by A.A. Milne. Garrick Theatre: 23 Feb 1925- May 1925 (closing date unknown/48 performances). Cast: Lee Baker (as "John Winter"), Laura Hope Crews (as "Ariadne Winter"), Orlando Daly (as "Hector Chadwick"), Frieda Inescort (as "Janet Ingleby"), Armina Marshall (as "Mary"), Harry Mestayer (as "Horace Meldru"), Catherine Proctor (as "Hester Chadwick"). Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1925) Stage Play: Hay Fever. Comedy. Written by Noël Coward. Directed by Noël Coward and Laura Hope Crews. Maxine Elliott's Theatre: 5 Oct 1925- Nov 1925 (closing date unknown/49 performances). Cast: Alice Belmore (as "Clara"), Laura Hope Crews (as "Judith Bliss"), Harry Davenport (as "David Bliss"), Frieda Inescort (as "Sorel Bliss"), Phyllis Joyce (as "Myra Arundel"), Margot Lester (as "Jackie Coryton"), Gavin Muir (as "Simon Bliss"), Reginald Sheffield (as "Sandy Tyrell"), George Thorpe (as "Richard Greatham"). Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1926) Stage Play: Embers. Written by A.E. Thomas. Adapted from the French of Henri Duvernois and Pierre Wolff. Henry Miller's Theatre: 1 Feb 1926- Feb 1926 (closing date unknown/25 performances). Cast: Elmer Brown, Ilka Chase, Laura Hope Crews, Norma Havey, Betty Horgan, Nicholas Joy (as "Fournier"), Katherine Meredith, Henry Miller, Albert Morrison, Leonard Mudie (as "Edouard"), Edwin Nicander (as "Martelet"), Florence Shirley.
- (1926) Stage Play: Pomeroy's Past. Comedy. Written by Clare Kummer. Directed by Ernest Truex. Longacre Theatre: 19 Apr 1926- Jul 1926 (closing date unknown/94 performances). Cast: Richard Barbee (as "Edward Marsh"), Helen Chandler (as "Mary Thorne"), Laura Hope Crews (as "Amanda Chilton"), Marjorie Kummer (as "Francesca"), Harry Oldridge (as "William Flynn"), Osgood Perkins (as "Trebus Heminway, D.D."), Dorothy Peterson (as "Hilda Fortesque"), Montague Rutherford (as "Edge"), Eleanor Frances Shaw (as "Little Frances"), Ernest Truex (as "Pomeroy Chilton"). Produced by Boothe, Gleason and Truex.
- (1926) Stage Play: Buy, Buy, Baby. Farce.
- (1926) Stage Play: The Silver Cord. Written by Sidney Howard. Directed by John Cromwell. John Golden Theatre: 20 Dec 1926- Mar 1927 (112 performances). Cast: Barbara Bruce (as "Maid"), Elliot Cabot (as "David"), Laura Hope Crews (as "Mrs. Phelps"), Margalo Gillmore (as "Hester"), Earle Larrimore (as "Robert"), Elisabeth Risdon (as "Christina"). Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1927) Stage Play: Right You Are If You Think You Are. Written by Luigi Pirandello. Directed by Philip Moeller. Guild Theatre: 2 Mar 1927- Apr 1927 (closing date unknown/48 performances). Cast: J.W. Austin (as "The Prefect"), Morris Carnovsky (as "Agazzi"), Phyllis Connard, Laura Hope Crews (as "Amalia"), Dorothy Fletcher, Philip Leigh (as "A Gentleman"), Philip Loeb (as "Centuri"), Armina Marshall (as "Signora Ponza"), Reginald Mason (as "Laudisi"), Maurice McRae, Beryl Mercer (as "Signora Frola"), Elisabeth Risdon (as "Signora Sirelli"), Edward G. Robinson (as "Ponza"), Henry Travers (as "Sirelli"), Helen Westley (as "Signora Cini"). Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1927) Stage Play: Mr. Pim Passes By. Comedy (revival). Written by A.A. Milne. Directed by Philip Moeller. Garrick Theatre: 18 Apr 1927- Aug 1927 (closing date unknown/72 performances). Cast: Helen Chandler (as "Dinah"), Laura Hope Crews (as "Olivia"), Dudley Digges (as "George Marden, J.P."), Armina Marshall (as "Anne"), Gavin Muir (as "Brian Strange"), Molly Pearson, Erskine Sanford (as "Carraway Pim"), Helen Westley (as "Lady Marden"). Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1928) Stage Play: Olympia. Comedy. Written by Ferenc Molnár. Translated by Sidney Howard. Directed by Gilbert Miller. Empire Theatre: 16 Oct 1928- Nov 1928 (closing date unknown/39 performances). Cast: Fay Compton (as "Olympia, Princess Orsolini"), Laura Hope Crews (as "Princess Eugenie Plata-Ettingen"), Ian Hunter (as "Captain Kovacs"), Arnold Korff (as "Prince Plata-Ettingen"), Richie Ling (as "Colonel Krehl"), Grant Stewart (as "Count Albert"), Cora Witherspoon (as "Countess Lina"). Produced by Gilbert Miller.
- (1933) Stage Play: Her Master's Voice. Comedy. Written by Clare Kummer. Lyrics and lyrics to "Only With You" by Clare Kummer. Scenic Design by Raymond Sovey. Directed by Worthington Miner. Plymouth Theatre: 23 Oct 1933- May 1934 (closing date unknown/224 performances). Cast: Laura Hope Crews (as "Aunt Min"), Roland Young (as "Ned Farrar"), Frances Fuller (as "Queena Farrar"), Elizabeth Patterson, Frederick Perry (as "Mr. Twilling"), Francis Pierlot (as "Craddock"), Josephine Williams. Produced by Max Gordon.
- (1935) Stage Play: Jubilee.
- (1938) Stage Play: Save Me the Waltz. Comedy. Written by Katharine Dayton. Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair. Martin Beck Theatre: 28 Feb 1938- Mar 1938 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Reginald Bach, Leslie Barrie, Leo G. Carroll (as "King Frederick IV"), Arthur Chatterdon (as "Von Bethmann"), Mady Christians, Laura Hope Crews (as "The Countess Zubowska"), John Emery, Derek Fairman, Brenda Forbes, Lauren Gilbert (as "Prince Paul"), Mary Howes, Arnold Korff (as "Stroock"), Fred Irving Lewis, George Macready (as "Dmitri"), Molly Pearson, Francis Pierlot (as "Chapek"), Mary Reeves, Hayden Rorke (as "Duca"), James Seeley, Martha Sleeper (as "Princess Helene of Slogatz"), Jane Wyatt (as "Princess Claudine"). Produced by Max Gordon. Produced in association with Sam Harris.
- (1941) Stage Play: Arsenic and Old Lace. Comedy. Written by Joseph Kesselring. Fulton Theatre (moved to The Hudson Theatre on 25 Sep 1943 to close): 10 Jan 1941- 17 Jun 1944 (1444 performances). Cast: Jean Adair (as "Martha Brewster"), John Alexander, Wyrley Birch (as "Rev. Dr. Harper"), Helen Brooks, Bruce Gordon, Henry Herbert (as "Mr. Gibbs"), Josephine Hull, Allyn Joslyn (as "Mortimer Brewster"), Boris Karloff (as "Jonathan Brewster"), William Parke, John Quigg, Anthony Ross, Edgar Stehli, Victor Sutherland (as "Lieutenant Rooney"). Replacement actors: Patricia Collinge (as "Abby Brewster"), Ashley Cooper (as "Mr. Witherspoon"), Laura Hope Crews [final Broadway role] (as "Abby Brewster") [from Jun 1942- ?], Minnie Dupree (as "Martha Brewster"), Harry Gribbon (as "Teddy Brewster"), Margaret Joyce (as "Elaine Harper") [from 15 Jun 1942- ?], Clinton Sundberg (as "Mortimer Brewster"), Erich von Stroheim (as "Jonathan Brewster" [from Jun 1942- ?]. Produced by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Filmed as Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
- (1928) She acted in A.A. Milne's play, "Mr. Pim Passes By," at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts with Bette Davis in the cast.
- (1928) She acted in Sidney Howard's play, "The Silver Cord," at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts with Elisabeth Risdon and Robert Montgomery in the cast.
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