Little Jessie James
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Little Jessie James was a musical farce that was the biggest hit of the 1923-24 Broadway season.
Poster by the Works Progress Administration as part of the Federal Theatre Project
Harlan Thompson
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Harlan Thompson was an American theatre director, screenwriter, lyricist, film director, and film and television producer. He wrote the Broadway hit Little Jessie James (1923–24), and several other Broadway musicals. He moved to Hollywood, where he was in turn a writer, director and producer.
Harlan Thompson
Norma Terris in 1929 in an advertisement for Un Casamiento en Hollywood, the Spanish version of Married in Hollywood
Cary Grant and Mae West in I'm No Angel (1933)