The Doughgirls (play)

The Doughgirls is a three-act play written by Joseph Fields. Producer Max Gordon staged it on Broadway, where it debuted at the Lyceum Theatre on December 30, 1942. The play is a comedy about three unmarried women sharing a room in an overcrowded hotel in Washington, D.C. during World War II. The Broadway production was a hit that ran for 671 performances and closed on July 29, 1944. It was adapted as a film of the same name in 1944.

Cast and characters The characters and cast from the Broadway production are given below: + Opening night cast Character Broadway castEdna Virginia FieldJulian CadmanKing CalderMr. Jordan Sydney GrantCol. Harry Hallstead Reed Brown, Jr.A bellboy George CalvertMaid Mary CooperMaid Mildred HainesVivian Arleen WhelanAnother bellboy Jerome ThorA porter Hugh WilliamsonAnother porter Kermit KegleyWaiter Walter BeckNan Doris NolanBrigadier General Slade William J. KellyTom Dillon Vinton HayworthJudge Honoria Blake Ethel WilsonNatalia Chodorov Arlene FrancisA stranger Harold GrauOrderly Joseph OlneyWarren Buckley Edward H. RobinsSylvia Natalie SchaferChaplain Stevens Reynolds EvansAdmiral Owens Thomas F. TraceyTimothy Walsh James MacDonaldStephen Forbes Maurice BurkeFather Nicholai Maxim Panteleieff

Film adaptation Warner Bros. paid $250,000 for the right to adapt the play as a movie. James V. Kern and Sam Hellman wrote the screenplay, which had to remove the play's implications of extramarital sex to be accepted by the censors at the Breen Office. Kern directed the film, which was titled The Doughgirls.

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