Stageography

Nita from The Midnight Whirl, photo by Alfred Cheney Johnson

Even more than for her film career, information on Nita Naldi’s stage, radio, and television work has been decidedly sketchy. Please view this page and the pages that follow as the bare-bones beginnings of a work in progress. Check back often. These pages will evolve over time.

Information on Nita’s stage career was derived primarily from Variety, Billboard, The New York Times, The Billy Rose Theatre Collection at the New York Library for the Performing Arts, and The Shubert Archive.   Other individual sources are cited below when applicable.

Stageography

Follow The Girl
Information on this title remains unverified
Lew Fields’ 44th Street Roof Garden  (March 2 – 16, 1918)
Broadhurst Theatre (March  18-23, 1918)

The Passing Show of 1918
Information on this title remains unverified
Winter Garden  (July 25 – November 9, 1918)
“New Passing Show at Winter Gardens Filled with Fun and Scenically Gorgeous,” New York Herald, July 26, 1918

The Gay Whirl
Information on this title remains unverified
Century Roof  (pre-August 1919)

The Century Midnight Whirl
Information on this title remains unverified
Century Grove  (opened circa December 21, 1919)

The Bonehead
1920
March 22 – 27  Opera House, Providence RI
March 29 – April 3  Stamford Theatre, Stamford, CT
April 12 – May 1,  Fulton Theatre,  New York, NY
Program Notes
An essay on The Bonehead.

Opportunity
48th Street Theatre  (July 30 – November, 1920)
An essay on Opportunity.

Sally
Information on this title remains unverified
New Amsterdam  (substituted for Dolores circa July 1921)

Firebird
Information on this title remains unverified
Empire  (November 21 – December 24, 1932)

Queer People
Information on this title remains unverified
National  (February 15-24, 1934)

Worth a Million
Closed on the road

Silver Screen Revue
Information on this title remains unverified
Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe  (March 18, 1941 – July 25, 1942)
ProgramNita’s program biography

On The Town
Information on this title remains unverified
Stock tour  (July 3 – September 9, 1950)

In Any Language
Information on this title remains unverified
Cort  (October 7 – November 15, 1952)

Cora MacGeachy costume design for Nita from “The Passing Show of 1918.” Photo courtesy The Shubert Archive.

 

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