Red Gloves is a play by Jean-Paul Sartre. It appeared on Broadway in 1948 in a production adapted by Daniel Taradash and starring John Dall, Joan Tetzel, and Charles Boyer.SARTRE IS UPHELD IN DRAMA DISPUTE: By SAM ZOLOTOW. New York Times 26 Nov 1948: 33.
It was originally called Crime Passionel.SARTRE'S NEW PLAY: SARTRE'S NEW PLAY By JOHN K. SAVACOOLPARIS. New York Times 18 Apr 1948: X1. Jed Harris directed the Broadway production.Harris for 'Red Gloves' The Christian Science Monitor 21 Aug 1948: 16.
Sartre successfully sued the producers of the adaptation, fearing--unjustly, according to Harris--that it had become “a vulgar, common melodrama with an anti-Communist bias."SARTRE IS UPHELD IN DRAMA DISPUTE: By SAM ZOLOTOW. New York Times 26 Nov 1948: 33.
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