Historic Photo Gallery: 1955 to 1968
1961
Claudette Colbert, Hollywood's leading lady of the 1930s and 1940s, had come from a
successful Broadway career in the 1920s before crossing over to film. She
then made a return to theatre beginning in the late 1950s. Seated center with
(left to right) Laryssa Lauret, Ludmilla Tehor, and Lynne Charnay, Colbert
appeared in the 1961 pre-Broadway tryout of
Julia, Jake and Uncle Joe
at the Walnut. The comedy by Oriana Atkinson, wife of
New York Times' drama
critic Brooks Atkinson, was not a success once it reached New York.
It closed after only one performance on Broadway. (Photograph courtesy of the
Theatre Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia.)
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