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A Most Immoral Lady starring Alice Brady The production opened November 26th, 1928 at the Cort Theatre in New York City and ran for 160 performances before going on the road. Bogie did not appear in the play while it was on Broadway, but joined the cast at a later date during it's Post-Broadway run. The playbill to the right lists him as appearing in the performances at the Shubert Adelphi Theatre in Philadelphia. The December 10, 1928 New Plays in Manhatton section of 'Time' read: A Most Immoral Lady. Alice Brady has not had a good show since Bride of the Lamb and that was not a box-office smash. Therefore her admirers hoped that Townsend Martin's first play might prove to be other than what it was—a good-natured description of a familiar but not fertile situation. A lady who is really not immoral accidentally puts the man she loves in a most embarrassing position—in which position his wife discovers him. A Parisian cafe is the background for the third act in which the lady's gloom turns into joy. Alice Brady, especially by means of a tete-a-tete with a telephone, is able to make the play presentable and no one could do more.

April 22nd, 1929 playbill from the Post-Broadway engagement of the play.