Production Staff
Harvey Breit
Playwright
Budd Schulberg
Playwright
City Playhouses, Inc. (Louis A. Lotito, President)
Theatre Owner / Operator
Julian Barry
Stage Manager
Richard Burns
Assistant to Ben Edwards
Arthur Cantor
Press Representative
Irving Cooper
General Manager
William Darrid
Producer
Ben Edwards
Scenic Designer
Shirley Farmer
Production Assistant
Mortimer Halpern
Production Stage Manager
Gertrude Kirschner
Associate Press Representative
Urey Krasnopolsky
Musical Supervisor
Richard Mason
Assistant to Ben Edwards
Howard Newman
Press Representative
Oliver Olsen
Assistant to Ann Roth
David Pressman
Director
Jean Rosenthal
Lighting Designer
Ann Roth
Costume Designer
Roth is a Carnegie Mellon graduate who began her career as a scenery painter for the Pittsburgh Opera. She intended to remain in the field of production design until she met Irene Sharaff at the Bucks County Playhouse. Sharaff invited her to California to assist her with costumes on the film Brigadoon and suggested Roth apprentice with her for five films and five Broadway productions before setting out on her own.
Roth's first Hollywood film was 1964's The World of Henry Orient, where her designs included "monogrammed handmade yellow silk pajamas" for glamorous womanizer Peter Sellers.
Roth next designed costumes for ... read more
Eleanore Saidenberg
Producer
Awards and Nominations
1959 Tony Awards
Best Play: Budd Schulberg was nominated but did not win.
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