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As
Shirley Grayson:
| Year |
Title of Piece, Character GH played, if known. |
Director
and writer, theatre, dates aired or staged |
| 1941 |
Man on Volcano
- Student |
Play by Beaumont
Breustle. Neighborhood Playhouse, Philadelphia. June 1941 |
| 1942 |
Student
Actress --Summer Stock at Sayville Playhouse, Sayville, New York (Long
Island)
|
The Barker -Cleo
|
Play by Kenyon Nicholson. July 20-25
|
| What a Life! -
Miss Wheeler |
Play by Clifford Goldsmith.
July 27-August 1 |
| Guest in the House
- |
Play by Hagar Wilde &
Dale Eunson. August 3 -8 |
| Stagedoor - |
Play by George S.Kaufman
and Edna Ferber. August 10-18 |
|
| 1945 |
Student Actress--Hedgerow
Theatre - Specific Dates unknown |
|
|
The Rehearsal (Love Punished)
-
Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
The Seagull
|
Play by Jean
Anouilh.
William Shakespeare
Anton Chekov
|
| 1945 |
"Seems
Radio is Here to Stay": Norman Corwin documentary |
November 5, 1945.
CBS. Recreation of 1939 progam. Lou Ashworth (assistant producer,
director), Norman Corwin (writer, producer, director). [A
tape recording of Seems Radio is Here to Stay is available
for public listening in the Museum of Radio and Television, New York
City.] |
| 1949 |
The Wooden
Fish - |
Play by Allan Sloan.
Directed by Martin Magner,WOR Transcription. Dramatization about the
World Heath Association in New York. |
| 1950
|
Within a
Glass Bell - Adelaide Levy |
Play by William Marchant. Westport Country
Playhouse. Westport, CT.
July 24-29, 1950. 8 performances.
|
| 1951 |
Our Betters
- Pearl Saunders, Lady Grayston |
Play by W. Somerset
Maughm. Directedy by Bob Brown. Yale University student production.
(precise dates unknown) |
| 1951 |
Lights Out: For
Release Today - Laura, actress |
dob: January 22,
1951 |
| 1952
|
Curtain Call -
** |
dob: February 12,
1951 |
|
The Man Who
Came to Dinner - Lorraine Sheldon |
Play by Moss Hart
& George S. Kaufman. Cape May, NJ co-star Gordon Russell |
| 1953 |
G. B. Shaw's Man
and Superman- Ann Whitefield. |
Equity Library Theatre production. Directed
by Neal Prince.Feb 11-15-Lenox Hill Playhouse;
February 20-21, DeWitt Clinton High School
(The Bronx); and
February 27-28, Bryant High School, Long
Island City.
|
| 1953 |
Glad Tidings
- Maud Abbott |
Play by Edward Mabley,
Hilltop Theater, Ellicott City-Baltimore
Maryland, June 16-21, 1953
Lakeside Summer Theatre, Lake Hopatcong,
New Jersey. July 20-25, 1953.
|
| 1953 |
See How They
Run - |
Lakeside Summer Theatre,
Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey. August 17-22, 1953 |
| 1953 |
Make Momma
Happy - Laura Case. |
Play by George Baxt.
Lakeside Summer Theatre, Lake Hopatcong,
New Jersey, August 3-8, 1953.
Played in Hartford and Philadelphia. Nov.
19-Dec. 5.
|
| 1954 |
Understudy for Uta
Hagen, The Magic and the Loss - Grace Wilson |
By Julian Funt. Directed
by Michael Gordon. Booth Theatre, Broadway, April 9-May 1. |
| 1954 |
The Facts of
Life - Kate Morley |
by John D Hess; summer
previews, Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, Pennsylvania, September
13-? |
| 1954 |
Kraft Television Theatre:
Charm Bracelet** |
Airdate: August 11,
1954. NBC - Unconfirmed |
| 1955
|
Arthur Schnitzler's
La Ronde - the Actress |
Directed by Jose
Quintero, Circle in the Square Theatre (Sheridan Square), Greenwich
Village. June 27-Nov. 27 (132 performances) |
| 1955 |
Goodyear TV Playhouse:
The Way Things Happen** |
Teleplay by George
Baxt. (episode # 4.9), Airdate: Jan. 30 , 1955, NBC. |
| 1955 |
Star Tonight: The
Critic** |
(episode # 1.24)
14 July 1955 |
| 1955
|
Six Characters
in Search of an Author - Second Woman |
Play by Luigi Pirandello. Directed by Tyrone
Guthrie.December 11, 1955-February 5, 1956 (57 performances).
|
| ?? |
The Man Who
Came to Dinner - Lorraine Sheldon |
Play by George S.
Kaufman/Moss Hart. Cape May Playhouse, Cape May, New Jersey. |
| 1957 |
Run Across the
River -
Sidney** |
Directed by Everett
Chambers. Release date, 1961-Detroit. |
| 1958 |
Understying for Celest
Holm, Interlock - Mrs. Price |
by Ira Levin. Directed
by Phillip Burton. February 6 - 8, 1954.ANTA Playhouse 245 W. 52nd
St., New York, NY |
| 1959 |
Aphrodite |
by Louise Platt adapted
from the novel by Pierre Louys. March 1959 Adelphi College on Long
Island |
| 1959 |
United States Steel
Hour: "Wish on the Moon"** |
By George Baxt.
(episode # 6.23) 29 July 1959 |
As
Grayson Hall:
|
1960
|
The Balcony - Originally The
Penitent.
Starting June 1, 1960 assumes lead role of
Madame Irma.
|
Play by Jean Genet. Directed
by Jose Quintero. March 3, 1960-December 1961. Circle in the Square
Theatre-Downtown. The Balcony was winner of 4 Obies (Off-Broadyway
Theatre Awards) - Best Foreign Play, Distinguished Actor and Actress
(Marchand as Irma) and Sets.
|
|
1960's - 1970's
|
Television commercials:
VOTE Toothpaste, Chrysler and Singer, **
|
|
| 1961 |
Season
of Summer Stock at the Hedgerow Theatre, Pennsylvania, "Off-Broadway
at Hedgerow"
| The Cocktail Party
- Celia Copplestone |
Play by T. S. Eliot, opened
June 22-July 1. |
| Misalliance
- Lina Szczepanowska. |
Play by G. B. Shaw, opened
July 3 - 15 |
| The Sea Gull
- Madame Arkadina |
Play by Anton Chekhov, July
17-29 |
|
Camino Real - Marguerite
Gauthier
|
Play by Tennessee Williams.,
specific dates unknown |
| Deathwatch - |
Play by Jean Genet, specific
dates unknown |
| The Changeling
- Isabella |
Play by Thomas Middleton
and William Rowley, August 14-26. |
| Human Voice
- The Woman |
Play By Jean Cocteau. August
26-Sept. 1 (one-woman performance) |
|
| 1961 |
The Buskers
- Agata |
Play by Kennth Jupp.
Cricket Theatre, 2nd Avenue & 10th Street.. Oct. 30--Nov. 4
|
| 1961-62 |
Subways are
for Sleeping -Myra Blake |
Directed by Michael Kidd.
Colonial Theatre, Boston, MA,
St. James Theatre. December 27, 1961 - June
23, 1962.
|
| 1961 |
David Brinkley's
Journal |
Airdate: December
27, 1961: Program about Broadway, featuring scene from Subways
are for Sleeping |
| 1962 |
Satan in High
Heels - Pepe |
Directed by Jerald
Intrator [Filmed Oct - Nov. 1960. Premiers on March 23, 1962 at the
Forum in New York City.] |
| 1962 |
Suspense: Snow on 66"
|
|
| 1962 |
A Weekend at Gleebes
|
CBS Radio (dob:
July 29). [A tape recording of Weekend at Glebes is available
for public listening in the Museum of Radio and Television, New York
City.] |
| 1962-63 |
The Nurses: - **
|
episode and specific
air date unknown |
| 1963
|
The Love Nest
- Crystal Seekfest. |
Play by Deric Washburn
at the Writers' Stage. Directed by Michael Kahn. Jan. 25--Feb. 3
|
| 1963 |
How Far is
the Barn - Actress |
Retitling of Lawrence
Riley's, "Personal Appearance". Hampton Playhouse, Hampton,
New Hampshire. August 1, 1963-- |
| 1964 |
Route 66: Follow
the White Dove with the Broken Wing - Mrs. Reston**
|
(episode # 4.20) 21
February 1964 |
| 1964 |
Ed Sullivan Show
- ** |
episode and specific
air date unknown. |
| 1964 |
The Night of
the Iguana - Judith Fellows. |
Screenplay by Tennessee
Williams (based on his original play), Anthony Veiller and John Houston.
Directed by John Houston. Filming September - November 1963.
Special showing, Lincoln Center, NY June 30, 1964. World Premiere
in Hollywood, July 1964 |
|
Miss
Hall was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting
Role and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
37th Annual Academy
Award ceremony held on April 5, 1965 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
Host- Bob Hope. |
| 1963-64 |
Walk with Me
- Lady |
By Carl Gabler. Directed
by Richard Altman, Choreography by Robert Haddad. The Actor's Studio
Playwrights Unit, Village South Theatre |
| 1964 |
The Engagement
|
Play by Ursula Molinaro.
Directed by Robert Haddad. The Actor's Studio Playwrights Unit, Village
South Theatre. (Two performances only) |
| 1964 |
No Strings
- Mollie Plummer |
Music and lyrics
by Richard Rodgers, book by Samuel Taylor. Lambertville Music Circus,
New Jersey. June 23-28. Grayson's first singing appearance. |
| 1964 |
Shout from
the Rooftops - Connie |
Play by Jess Gregg.
The Renata Theatre (East 11th Street); Oct. 28--Nov. 8 (15 performances) |
| 1965
|
That Darn Cat
- Margaret Miller |
Directed by Robert
Stevenson. Filmed --December 1964-January 1965. Opened December 2,
1965 |
| 1965 |
A Slight Ache - Flora
The Adjustment - Belinda Groat
|
Play by Harold Pinter
Play by Albert Bermel. June 24 through July
18. World Premiere of Adjustment
Spoleto Festival (Italy)
|
| 1965 |
"Bob Hope Presents
the Chrysler Theatre", Back to Back**
- Miss Fitzhugh |
(episode # 3.5)
NBC, 27 October 1965 |
| 1966 |
Trials of O'Brien,
A Horse Called Destiny** - Louise
Malcolm |
CBS, Jan. 21, 1966
Program starred Peter Falk. |
| 1966 |
Qui êtes-vous,
Polly Maggoo? (English title: Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?) Miss
Maxwell. |
Directed and Written
by William Klein.
UK release for the movie, only limited USA
release.
|
| 1966 |
The Whole Nineth
Floor - Carol Beaumont |
By David Phillips
[pseudonym for Richard Seff], Directed by Lawrence Kasha, Playhouse
on the Mall, Paramus, NJ. February 15-27, 1966. Co-star Alan Alda. |
| 1966 |
Those That
Play the Clowns - Frau Gerdes |
Play by Michael
Stewart, Virginia Theatre/ANTA Playhouse -245 W. 52nd St.NY, NY. Nov.
24, - Nov. 26, 1966, playing 3 previews and 4 performances. |
| 1967 |
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.:
The Pieces of Fate Affair - Jody Moore [originally named Judith
Merle] |
(episode #3.23) 24
February 1967, NBC. |
| 1967 |
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.:The
High and Deadly Affair - Mrs. Fowler |
(episode #1.28) April
4, 1967, NBC |
| 1967-1971 |
Dark Shadows
- Dr. Julia Hoffman, Countess Natalie Du Pres,
Magda Rakosi, Julia Hoffman (houserkeeper- PT), Constance Collins.
|
Produced by Dan Curtis. Filmed
at 433 West 53th Street, New York, NY. GH appearances - June 16,
1967- March 24, 1971.
|
| 1968 |
End of the Road
- Peggy Rankin. |
Directed by Aram
Avakian. Screenplay by Dennis McGuire,
Terry Southern, Aram Avakian [Preview Dec 19, 1969. General release
January 1970] |
| 1969
|
Adam at 6 a.m.
- Inez Treadly. |
Directed by Robert
Scheerer [Released August 1970] |
| 1970 |
Night Gallery-:
Certain Shadows on the Wall - Ann Brigham |
(episode # 1.7) 30
December 1970 |
|
1970
|
"Girl Talk" - "The Virginia
Graham Show" - interview**
|
These may be the
same show aired in different markets with different titles. |
| 1970 |
Playtex commercial
** |
|
| 1970 |
House of Dark
Shadows - Dr. Julia Hoffman. |
Directed by Dan
Curtis. [Released in 1970] Screenplay by Sam Hall and Gordon Russell. |
| 1970 |
Sanka commercial** |
|
| 1971 |
The Last Analysis
- Madge. |
Play by Saul Bellow.
Circle in the Square. Directed by Theodore Mann. June 23-Aug. 1 |
| 1971 |
Night of Dark
Shadows - Carlotta Drake. |
Directed by Dan
Curtis. Screenplay by Sam Hall. |
| 1971 |
Friends and Relations:
Friends-Melba
Relations-Stephanie De Milo
|
Play by Eugene Yanni.
2-one act plays co-starring Madeleine Thorton-Sherwood. Provincetown
Playhouse, 133 MacDougal St, New York. Oct. 14-17 |
| 1971 |
The Screens
- Warda. |
Play by Jean Genet.
Directed by Minos Volonakis. Chelsea Theatre Center, Brooklyn. Nov.
30-Dec. 26 |
|
1972
|
Gargoyles - Mrs. Parks.
|
Directed by Bill L. Norton. [Made for television
movie, CBS.]
|
| 1972 |
Search -
** |
Science Fiction
Series; unaired episode. Co-starred Burgess Meredith and Doug McClure.
|
| 1973 |
All My Children**
- Marge Grey. |
Character introduced
the week of April 16-20, 1973. |
| 1973 |
Marco
Polo Sings a Solo - Mrs. McBride |
Play written by John Guare
Nantucket Stage Company (Cyrus Pierce Theatre) Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Summer 1973.
Staged again at WestBeth (New York City)
in Jean Austin Workshop; 1974 or 75; directed by Anthony Perkins.
|
| 1973 |
Secrets of
the Citizens' Correction Committee - Mrs. Fugelman.
|
By Ronald Tavel. Directed by John Chapman.
American Place Theatre at St. Clements, 111 West 46th Street. October
17-26 (12 performances).
|
| 1974 |
Kojak -Hush Now,
or You Die - Mrs. Campbell |
(episode # 2.3)
CBS, 22 September 1974 |
| 1974 |
The Great Ice
Rip-Off - Helen Calso. |
Directed by Dan
Curtis. ABC Movie of the Week, November 6, 1974 |
| 1975 |
The Two Deaths
of Sean Doolittle** -Rhea . |
Directed by Lela
Swift. [Aired on ABC-TV Mystery Movie series April 4.] |
| 1975 |
What Every
Woman Knows - Comtesse de la Briere. |
Play by James M.
Barry. Directed by Gene Feist. the Roundabout Theatre Company/Stage
One, 333 E 23rd Street, May 28-July 27, 1975. |
| 1975 |
Interviews:
WNYC-Public Radio**
WEVD-Talk Radio**
|
In conjunction with What Every Woman
Knows
June 30, 1975, 10:00 p.m.
July 16, 1975, 12:00 p.m.
|
| 1975 |
The Sea
- Louise. |
The Manhattan Theatre
Club, March 12-30 (15 performances). |
| 1975 |
The Leaf People
- 1st Interpreter. |
By Dennis J Reardon.
Directed by Tom O'Horgan. Booth Theater. 42 previews; 8 performances.
Sept 12-October 26, 1975. |
| 1976 |
Jack Gelber's New
Play: Rehearsal - Arlene. |
Written and directed
by Jack Gelber. September 28-October 4, 1976. |
| 1977 |
Class of '65 (uncredited?)** |
|
| 1977 |
Happy End
- The Fly, Lady in Gray. |
Lyrics Bertolt Brecht; Music by Kurt Weill.
Directed by Robert Kalfin.
Off Broadway--Chelsea Theatre Center Mar.
8-April 30;
On Broadway -- Martin Beck Theatre May 7-July
10.
|
| 1977 |
Gazelle Boy
- Delarai Eddleston. |
Play by Ronald Tavel.
Directed by John Dillon. The Barn Theatre, Eugene O'Neill Theatre
Center, Westport, CT, July 23 (2 performances). |
| 1978 |
Ribcage-Sheryl |
By Larry Ketron. Directed by Andy Wolk.
Manhattan Theatre Club.
May 17, 1978 (20 performances)
|
| 1979-80 |
Radio Voice Overs
for Columbia Records-the Rolling Stones, Electric Light Orchestra,
Blue Oyster Cult, Heart-- |
|
|
1979
|
Veronica's Room - The Woman
|
Written by Ira Levin.
Directed by Aubrey Berg. Birmingham Theatre in Birmingham, Michigan.
April 12 - 21. |
| 1980 |
The Suicide
- Serafima Ilyinishna |
Play by Nikolai
Erdman. Directed by Jonas Jurasas. Oct 9, 1980 -Nov 30, 1980 ANTA
Playhouse. |
| 1981 |
The Chapparal
Prince - Mrs. Maloney |
Direct by Mike CullinghamBased
on a short story by O. Henry, written by Bruce Harmon. Directed by
Mark Cullingham |
| 1982 |
One Life to Live
- Euphemia Ralston. |
Summer 1982-Spring
1983 |
| 1982 |
Facade-
female narrator |
Clarion Concert Group
of Lincoln Center, August 22, 1982, Catamount Ski Center, Hillsdale,
NY. |
| 1985 |
The Madwoman
of Chaillot - Madam Josephine. |
Play by Jean Giraudoux; Adaption Maurice
Valency. Directed by Stephen Porter. Mirror Reperatory, Theatre
at St. Peter's. January-February 1985
**Ms. Hall rehearsed and performed the previews
for this production but left before opening on January 30 due to
illness.
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This list was compiled based on original
research by S. R. Shutt and R. J. Jamison, assisted by B. McDonough. Other
listing utilized include - IMDB.com, IBDB.com and the Louise Lortel off-broadway
database, www.lortel.org.
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