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Play "John Loves Mary"Entry/Object ID
2024.17.08Scope and Content
Bay Players Present
"John Loves Mary"
Cover is a heavy matt finish black cover printed with white printing. the sketch of of a sylized woman with small hearts where her hair is, heart earings, neck and shoulder lines.
p. 2-3 Welcome...Ann Randolph, President
p. 8 Bay / Village / Players / Fall Production
Twenty-sixth season 1953-54
"John Loves Mary"
A Comedy in Three Acts / by / Norman Krasna
Under the direction of / Eugene Davis
Bay Village High School Auditorium
Wednesday, December 2nd / Through / Saturday, December 5th
at 8:30 o'clock March 27 and 28
p. 10 Cast (In Order of Appearance)
Irene Ewan
Kenneth Foster
Chuck Swearingen
Jack Robinson
Richard Morrison
Arlene Tibbetts
Jack Roeder
Hugh Randolph
Barbara Swearingen
Holt Brown
Act I, Act II and Act III
p. 12 For this production (those who assisted) 15 names listed for various jobs, some more than once.
p. 14, 16, 18 About the Cast
Numerous companies and businesses listed who supported the play.
John Loves Mary is a 1949 comedy film directed by David Butler and written by Henry Ephron and Phoebe Ephron. The film stars Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal and Jack Carson. The film was released by Warner Bros. on February 19, 1949. It's based on a Broadway play of the same name written by Norman Krasna, which ran from February 4, 1947, to February 7, 1948, at the Booth Theatre and Music Box Theatre in New York City.
Plot
John Lawrence (Ronald Reagan) is a returning GI. Mary McKinley (Patricia Neal, in her film debut) is the woman he left behind. But their reunion will have to wait: John has returned with English war bride Lilly Herbish (Virginia Field) in tow. It seems that John married Lilly as a favor to get her into the U.S., intending to go to Reno, Nevada and divorce her so that she can wed her true love, John's old pal Fred Taylor (Jack Carson). The plan is complicated by the unexpected arrival of Mary's parents, Senator James McKinley (Edward Arnold) and his wife Phyllis (Katharine Alexander). When John asks for the blessing of Mary's father to wed her, the senator insists that the wedding be held immediately. Later, John learns that Fred is already married and that his wife is expecting a baby.
John and Fred then come up with a scheme to put off John's wedding until he can get a divorce from Lilly. Fred pays off their former lieutenant, Victor O'Leary (Wayne Morris), to don his old uniform and pretend to order John to go to Reno on some Army business. The next day, Mary is so distraught at the thought of delaying the wedding that she insists her father use his political connections to get John out of his assignment. When John refuses to accept any special treatment, Mary leaves along with her parents. While they are gone, Lilly arrives and discovers that Fred already is married. Mary tries again to get John out of his assignment by asking General Biddle (Paul Harvey) to intervene, but John again refuses any such help. Mary becomes convinced that John does not love her and breaks off the engagement, forcing John to come clean and admit to the entire scheme. Lilly then reveals that she was married to Victor, but had received a letter purporting to be from his mother claiming that he had died from double pneumonia. An unwilling, and inebriated Victor is reunited with Lilly, and since Lilly's marriage to John is invalid he is free to wed Mary.
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