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"Claudia"Entry/Object ID
2024.P.17.01.28Description
A. Stage without actors for "Claudia"
B. Photograph with the cast onstage of "Claudia." Stage curtains overhead, Livingroom setting with a couch in the center and a chair on each side. Openings to other areas behind the five people shown.
Back of 2024.P.17.01.24 listed the characters:
Claudia
L to R Earl Keyes as Jerry Seymour
Patty Dean Bailey as Claudia
Becky Demmerle as Julia Naughton
Judy Loesch as Mrs. Brown
Frances Drenkhan as Darushka
Bay Village Players / April 21, 22, 23, 1949
Claudia
Setting: Living room of the Naughtons' home in the country, about seventy miles out of New York City. https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-show/claudia-2613
Claudia, a story about the titular wife's maturation, is a 1941 play by Rose Franken.
Broadway play
Claudia, based on Franken's 1939 novel, premiered as a play on Broadway in 1941. The play was written and directed by Rose Franken and produced by John Golden. The show starred Dorothy McGuire as Claudia Naughton and Donald Cook as David Naughton. When it closed in 1943, it had run for a total of 722 performances.
Books
Franken's Claudia: The Story of a Marriage was released in 1939, the first in a series of books which would be followed by Another Claudia (1943), Young Claudia (1946), The Marriage of Claudia (1948), From Claudia to David (1949), two 1952 novels, and a 1958 omnibus edition called The Complete Book of Claudia. The Claudia series explored the challenges and delights of family relationships that foster personal growth.
Films
Claudia was first made into a film, Claudia (1943), followed by Claudia and David in 1946.
Television
In January 1952, NBC-TV premiered a series based on Claudia, The Story of a Marriage.
Radio
The play was first adapted for radio in a segment on the June 6, 1941, episode of The Kate Smith Hour. When Smith's program went off the air for the summer, a 30-minute version, Claudia and David, filled her time slot.
In 1949, the British Broadcasting Corporation presented two 90-minute productions of Claudia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_(play)Dimensions
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5 inDimension Notes
7" x 5"Relationships
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"Claudia" theater production
