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| The Sam H. Harris Theatre's 1932 production of I Loved You Wednesday | ||
| Bogie appeared (as Randall Williams) in the Sam H. Harris Theatre's 1932
production of I Loved You Wednesday, which starred Frances Fuller (as Victoria Meredith). This original Broadway production played at the Sam H. Harris Theatre in New York City. The production opened October 11th, 1932 and ran for only 63 performances. | ||
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The October 24, 1932 review by 'Time' read: I Loved You Wednesday (by Molly Ricardel & William DuBois; Crosby Gaige, producer). Victoria Meredith (Frances Fuller of The Animal Kingdom) and Randall Williams (Humphrey Bogart) are lovers. They part after a winter in Paris when his rich wife (Rose Hobart) arrives with big plans for him. Five years later they meet in Manhattan. Victoria has become a famed dancer. Randall has made money as an architect, acquired, according to his wife, the reputation of being "a sybarite with the morals of a tomcat." Follows a long, spurious sequence with everybody saying very hard, wise things to everybody else in the pat, brittle, wisecracking manner used so facilely by Philip Barry and so embarrassingly by his followers. You do not have to be supersensitive to cringe at the scene where the wife and ex-mistress meet in the speakeasy, both very gallant and willing to thrash out their mutual problem drink-for-drink. The tasteful setting, capable direction and talented impersonations of I Loved You Wednesday seem considerably more important than the ultimate decision which the dancer is to make: whether to go back to Paris with the tomcat or go to Java with another man. | This is a November 7th, 1932 playbill from the show, featuring Frances Fuller.  |
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