Editing Life with Father (section)

==Production==
[[File:Life with Father, Cass Theatre -- Detroit, Mich (69686).jpg|thumb|upright|Postcard showing cast featuring [[Dorothy Gish]]]]
The 1939 Broadway production ran for over seven years to become the [[List of the longest-running Broadway shows|longest-running non-musical play on Broadway]], a record that it still holds.<ref name=life>{{Cite web|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/29266/Life-With-Father/overview|title=Life With Father - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New York Times|date=October 16, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016232448/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/29266/Life-With-Father/overview|archive-date=2007-10-16}}</ref> It also held the title of the [[List of Broadway shows that have held title of longest-running show|longest running Broadway play of any type of all time]] from 1947 to 1972.<ref name="fiddler2">(19 June 1972). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19720619&id=PaIyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nOwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2314,1173751 Fiddler on the Roof longest running show], ''Ottawa Citizen'' (Associated Press)</ref> It opened at the [[Empire Theatre (41st Street)|Empire Theatre]] on November 8, 1939 and ran at that theatre until September 8, 1945. It then moved to the [[Bijou Theatre (Manhattan, 1917)|Bijou Theatre]] where it ran until June 15, 1947, and finished its run at the [[Alvin Theatre]] on July 12, 1947 for a combined total of 3,224 performances. The play was produced by [[Oscar Serlin]], staged by [[Bretaigne Windust]], with setting and costumes by Stewart Chaney. It starred [[Howard Lindsay]], his wife [[Dorothy Stickney]], and [[Teresa Wright]].<ref>[http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=1720 Internet Broadway Database listing for Broadway production] ibdb.com</ref>

===Cast===
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*Katherine Bard as Annie 
*[[Dorothy Stickney]] as Lavinia "Vinnie" Day
*John Drew Devereaux as Clarence Day, Jr.
*Richard Simon as John Day
*Raymond Roe as Whitney Day
*Larry Robinson as Harlan Day
*[[Howard Lindsay]] as Father (Clarence "Clare" Day, Sr.)
*[[Dorothy Bernard]] as Margaret
*Ruth Hammond as Cora
*[[Teresa Wright]] as Mary Skinner
*Richard Sterling as the Reverend Dr. Lloyd
*Portia Morrow as Delia
*Nellie Burt as Nora
*A.H. Van Buren as Dr. Humphreys
*John C. King as Dr. Somers
*Timothy Kearse as Maggie
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