Pauline Lord created the title role in the original Broadway production of Anna Christie (1921)
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Anna Christie is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this work. Acco
Pauline Lord
…directed by Arthur Hopkins. It was not until November 2, 1921, that she again scored another hit where she starred in the title role of Eugene O’Neill's Anna Christie at the Vanderbilt Theatre on Broadway. This turned out to be her greatest success; the play was taken to London, and at the Strand Theatre on April 10…
Pauline Lord as Anna Christopherson, James T. Mack as Johnny-the-Priest, and Eugenie Blair as Marthy Owen in the original Broadway production of Anna Christie (1921)
Poster for the 1977 Broadway revival by James McMullan
Blanche Sweet's Anna Christie was featured on the cover of The Silver Sheet, a studio publication promoting Thomas Ince Productions (1923)