Frank Craven was an American stage and film actor, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for originating the role of the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's Our Town.
Frank Craven in 1921
Frank Craven, Martha Scott and John Craven in the original Broadway production of Our Town (1938)
Frank Craven as the Stage Manager in the original Broadway production of Our Town (1938)
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
Wilder in 1948
Wilder in his 1920 Yale College graduation photo
Frank Craven, Martha Scott, and John Craven in the original Broadway production of Our Town, published in 1938, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Wilder as Mr. Antrobus in The Skin of Our Teeth in 1948