Other works

(1917 - 1957) Active on Broadway in the following productions:

(1917) Stage Play: Love o' Mike. Musical comedy.

(1919) Stage Play: The Gold Diggers. Comedy.

(1921) Stage Play: A Bachelor's Night. Farce. Written by Wilson Collison. Directed by Harry Andrews. Park Theatre: 17 Oct 1921- Oct 1921 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Vera Finlay (as "Vivian Barnes"), Leila Frost (as "Frederica Dill"), Luella Gear (as "Amelia Annesley"), Isabel Irving (as "Mrs. Jarvis"), Amy Ongley (as "Cleetie"), William Roselle (as "Dicky Jarvis"), Dorothy Smoller (as "Lilly Carnes"), Lilyan Tashman (as "Trixie Moulton"), Herbert Yost (as "Gildy Barnes"). Produced by John Cort.

(1923) Stage Play: Elsie. Musical comedy.

(1923) Stage Play: Poppy. Musical.

(1926) Stage Play: Queen High. Musical comedy.

(1928) Stage Play: The Optimists. Musical revue.

(1928) Stage Play: Ups-a Daisy. Musical comedy. Music by Lewis E. Gensler. Book by Clifford Grey and Robert A. Simon. Lyrics by Clifford Grey and Robert A. Simon. Based on a play by Curt Kraatz. Musical Director: Gene Salzer. Music orchestrated by Frank Black. Scenic Design by John Wenger. Costume Design by Kiviette. Choreographed by Earl Lindsay. Directed by Edgar J. MacGregor. Shubert Theatre: 8 Oct 1928- 1 Dec 1928 (64 performances). Cast: Al Berl (as "Ensemble"), Harry Blake (as "Ensemble") [final Broadway role], Sam Bradley (as "Ensemble"), Russ Brown (as "Jimmy Ridgeway"), Sybil Bursk (as "Ensemble"), Joseph Caits (as "Oskar"), Louis Caits (as "Sepp"), Teddy Cameron (as "Ensemble"), Joan Carter Waddell (as "Madge Mallory"), John Coughlin (as "Ensemble"), Alan Crane (as "A Page/Ensemble"), Rita Crane (as "Gertrude/Ensemble"), Virginia Crowe (as "Ensemble"), May Delaney (as "Ensemble"), Margaret Dybfest (as "Ensemble"), Adeline Foley (as "Ensemble"), Alan Fox (as "Scrams/Ensemble"), Ruth Gaudens (as "Ensemble"), Luella Gear (as "Ethel Billings"), Carolyn Gerken (as "Ensemble"), Ruth Hartman (as "Ensemble"), Mitzi Hayes (as "Ensemble"), Florence Healy (as "Ensemble"), Muriel Hoey (as "Ensemble"), Lebanon Hoffa (as "Ensemble"), Bob Hope (as "Screeves/Ensemble"), Amalie Ideal (as "Ensemble"), Sidney Kane (as "Ensemble"), Irene Kelly (as "Ensemble"), Nell Kelly (as "Lurline"), William Kent, Arthur LaFrack (as "Ensemble"), Myrtle Lambert (as "Ensemble"), Jimmy Lee (as "Ensemble"), Lorry LeNoie (as "Ensemble"), Walter Lowery (as "Ensemble"), Herbert Lund (as "Ensemble"), Jocelyn Lyle (as "Mary/Ensemble"), Marilyn Mack (as "Ensemble"), Dolly Martinez (as "Ensemble"), Virginia May (as "Ensemble"), Fred Maye (as "Freddie/Ensemble"), John McCahill (as "Ensemble"), Marjorie Miller (as "Ensemble"), Georgia Moore (as "Marigold/Ensemble"), Lucille Moore (as "Ensemble"), Odessa Morgan (as "Ensemble"), Billy Neely (as "Walter/Ensemble"), Petra Olsen (as "Ensemble"), Charlotte Otis (as "Ensemble"), George Pauncefort (as "Ambrose Wattle"), Mildred Pitcher (as "Ensemble"), Patricia Pitcher (as "Ensemble"), Blanche Reeves (as "Ensemble"), Roy Royston (as "Roy Lindbrooke"), Marie Saxon (as "Polly Mallory"), Francis X. Sinnott (as "Ensemble"), George Smith (as "Ensemble"), Ruth Timmons (as "Ensemble"), Mildred Tolle (as "Irene"), Buster West (as "Pinky Parks"), John West (as "Fletcher"), Wanda Wood (as "Ensemble"), Betty Wright (as "Ensemble"), Grace Wright (as "Ensemble"), Dorothy Wyatt (as "Ensemble"). Produced by Lewis E. Gensler.

(1932) Stage Play: Gay Divorce. Musical comedy. Music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Book by Dwight Taylor. Based on an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners [posthumous credit]. Musical Director: Gene Salzer. Music orchestrated by Hans Spialek and Russell Bennett. Material adapted by Kenneth S. Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein. Choreographed by Carl Randall and Barbara Newberry. Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner. Costumes under the supervision of Raymond Sovey. Directed by Howard Lindsay. Ethel Barrymore Theatre (moved to The Shubert Theatre from 16 Jan 1933 to close): 29 Nov 1932- 1 Jul 1933 (248 performances). Cast: Fred Astaire, Luella Gear, Claire Luce, Edna Abbey, Helen Allen, Eric Blore, Roland Bottomley, Joan Burgess, Martin Cravath, Eleanor Etheridge, Sonia B. Fitch, Jean Frontai, Mitzi Garner, Taylor Gordon, Billie Green, Ethel Hampton, G.P. Huntley, Mary Jo Mathews, Grace Moore, Pat Palmer, Erik Rhodes (formerly credited as Ernest Sharpe), Bobbie Sheehan, Jacquie Simmons, Betty Starbuck (as "Barbara"), Dorothy Waller. Produced by Dwight Wiman and Tom Weatherly.

(1934) Stage Play: Life Begins at 8:40. Musical revue. Music by Harold Arlen. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin and E.Y. Harburg. Additional orchestrations by Russell Bennett and Don Walker. Comedy scenes directed by Philip Loeb. Principal director: John Murray Anderson. Winter Garden Theatre: 27 Aug 1934- 16 Mar 1935 (237 performances). Cast: Ray Bolger, Luella Gear (as "The Bride/The Rose/The Window Dresser's Wife/Agatha/Frou-Frou/Winnie Whittlebone/"I Couldn't Hold My Man" Singer/The First Lady Life Begins at City Hall"), Bert Lahr, Frances Williams, Eugene Ashley, Jack Barrett, Mary Bay, Regina Beck, Vicki Belling, Helen Bennett, George Bockman, Hazel Boffinger, Edward Browne, Sally Bynum, Mary Ann Carr, Noreen Carr, Jean Carson, Geri Chopin, Frances Comstock, Aida Conkey, Hope Dare, Maxine Darrell, Aline Davis, Brian Donlevy, Tom Draper, Dixie Dunbar, Helene Ecklund, William Ehlers, Marjorie Ezequelle, Charles Fowler, Darley Fuller, Peggy Gallimore, Williem Gerard, Sally Gibbs, Ilse Gronau, Kai Hansen, Pearl Harris, Winifred Harris (as "The Mother/Chin Up/Lydia Gooseberry/New Deal Ladies' Circle"), Josephine Houston, Mary Howard, Julie Jenner, Esther Junger, Jane Lane, Michael Logan, Arthur Manning, Adrienne Matzenauer, James McColl, Ethel Medsker, Jane Moxon, Ofelia & Pimento, Emmett Oldfield, Earl Oxford, Jessica Pepper, Gloria Pierre, Sid Salzer, Betty Schlaffer, Josephine Schwarz, Bartlett Simmons, Grena Sloan, Jack Starr, Donald Stewart, Sherry Stuart, Anya Taranda, Peggy Thomas, Ethel Thorsen, Walter Wahl, Mildred Webb, The Charles Weidman Dancers, Grover Whalen, Robert Wildhack. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.

(1936) Stage Play: On Your Toes. Musical comedy. Music by Richard Rodgers. Book by Richard Rodgers, George Abbott and Lorenz Hart. Lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Music orchestrated by Hans Spialek. Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner. Costume Design by Irene Sharaff. Directed by Worthington Miner. Imperial Theatre (moved to The Majestic Theatre from 9 Nov 1936 to close): 11 Apr 1936- 23 Jan 1937 (315 performances). Cast: Ray Bolger (as "Phil Dolan III/Hoofer"/"Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" Ballet), Doris Carson, Luella Gear (as "Peggy Porterfield"), Tamara Geva (as "Vera Barnova/Princess Zenobia/Princess Zenobia Ballet/Strip Tease Girl/"Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" Ballet), Monty Woolley (as "Sergei Alexandrovitch"), William Baker, Libby Bennett, May Block, Edward Brinkman, William Broder, Jill Christie, George Church, Fred Danieli, Nick Dennis (as "Thug"), Dorothy Denton, Henry Dick, Enes Earley, Eleanor Fiata, Marjorie Fisher, Robert H. Forsythe, Gloria Franklin, Basil Galahoff, Dorothy Hall, Ethel Hampton, Harold Haskin, Harold Haskins, Dave Jones, Grace Kaye, Tyrone Kearney, Joan Keenan, Isabelle Kimpal, Betty Lee, Bob Long, Gertrude Magee, Russ Milton, Julian Mitchell, Marie Monnig, David Morris, Frances Nevins, Mae Noble, Harry Peterson, Jack Quinn, Carole Renwick, Patsy Schenck, Ursula Seiler, Robert Sidney, Betty Jane Smith, Guy Stanion, Drucilla Strain, Valery Streshnev, Dorothy Thomas, Beau Tilden (as "Call Boy/Thug/Gentleman of the Ensemble"), Demetrios Vilan, William Wadsworth, Davenie Watson, Amy Weber, Alma Wertley, George Young. Produced by Dwight Wiman. Note: Filmed as On Your Toes (1939).

(1937) Stage Play: Love in My Fashion. Comedy.

(1939) Stage Play: Streets of Paris. Musical revue. Music by Jimmy McHugh. Lyrics by Al Dubin. Additional numbers by Harold Rome. Sketches by Charles Sherman, Tom McKnight, S. Jay Kaufman, Edward Duryea Dowling, James La Ver, Frank Eyton and Lee Brody. Music arranged by Hans Spialek. Vocal arrangements by Hugh Martin. Costume Design by Irene Sharaff. Lighting Design by Edward Duryea Dowling. Scenic Design by Lawrence L. Goldwasser. Dances and Ensembles Staged by Robert Alton; Directed by Edward Duryea Dowling. Broadhurst Theatre: 19 Jun 1939- 10 Feb 1940 (274 performances). Cast: Bud Abbott (as "Customs" Performer/"On the Boulevard" Performer/Manager/"Rest Cure"/Capi/"That's Music"/"The French Have a Word for It" Featured Performer), Bobby Clark (as "The Photographer/Is It Possible?" Singer/Marie's Father/The Convict's Return/Michael/The Convict's Return/Armand/The Convict's Return/Warden/The Convict's Return/Man/A Noel Coward Custom/"Robert the Roue" Performer/Mr. Migglesworth/The Spy/Mr. Prout/That's Music/"The French Have a Word for It" Featured Performer), Lou Costello (as "Customs" Performer/On the Boulevard" Performer/Searcher/"Rest Cure"/Marcel/"That's Music"/"The French Have a Word for It" Featured Performer"), Luella Gear, Carmen Miranda (as "South American Way" Featured Performer/"The French Have a Word for It" Featured Performer), Yvonne Bouvier, Billy Branch, Gower Champion, Ben Dova, Gloria Gilbert, Hylton Sisters, Margaret Irving, Magda Kari, Della Lind, Jack McCauley[credited as John McCauley], Jeanne Readinger, Jo Readinger, Buddy Roberts, Jeanne Tyler, Ward & Van, Milton Watson, Lincoln Wilmerton, Mary Ann, Alice Anthony, Bill Aubrey, Betty Bartley, Barbara Beech, FLora Boes, Trudy Burke, Lucy Chandler, Aina Constant, Richard D'Arcy. Shannon Dean, Enez Early, Hugh Ellsworth, Peggy Galimore, Jackie Gateley, Arthur Grahl, Lynda Grey, Margaret Hall, William Hawley, Mildred Hughes, Henning Irgens, Marguerite James, Charles La Torre, Edith Lambot, Nancy Lewis, Lillian Lillemy, Hugh Martin (as "Monsieur/The Ensemble Speaks"), Maxine Martin, Michael Moore, Frederic Nay, Olive Nicholson, Mary Ann O'Brien, Frances O'Day, Leona Olsen, Mischa Pompianov, Jean Sablon, Bernice Smith, Tony Stuart, Ramon Vinay, Edward Wells, Lincoln Wilderton. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert. Produced in association with Olsen & Johnson.

(1941) Stage Play: Crazy With the Heat. Musical revue.

(1941) Stage Play: Crazy With the Heat. Musical revue (return engagement).

(1942) Stage Play: Count Me In. Musical revue. Music/lyrics by Ann Ronell. Based on material by Walter Kerr and Leo Brady. Music orchestration by Russell Bennett. Special orchestral arrangements by Hans Spialek and Don Walker. Vocal arrangements by Buck Warnick. Choreographed music by Will Irwin. Directed by Robert Ross. Ethel Barrymore Theatre: 8 Oct 1942- 21 Nov 1942 (61 performances). Cast: Charles Butterworth (as "Papa"), Luella Gear (as "Mama"), Leonard Adriance, Jean Arthur (as "Jean" and "Dancing Girl"), Carolyn Ayers, Jim Barron, Robert Bay, Mary Alice Bigham, Whit Bissell [credited as Whitner Bissell] (as "First Draftee/Australian Announcer/Lowell Cabot, U.S.N./On Leave For Love" Singer/Dancer), Richard Brasno, Vincent Carbone, Gower Champion (as "Teddy Roosevelt Brandywine"), Willis Claire, Julie Colt, Kay Coulter, Danny Daniels, Jean Darling, Alice Dudley, Lew Eckles (as "F.B.I. Man"), Luella Gear, Johanna Gillman, Dorothy Griffin, Victor Griffin, Mary Healy, Stanley Jessup (as "FBI Man"), Charles Julian, Agnes Kane, Cornelia Kilbourn, June Kim, Cookey Kley, Jack Lambert, Alfred Latell, Hal Le Roy (as "Alvin York Brandywine/Dancer"), Kay Lewis, Claire Loring, Bubbles Mandl, Joe E. Marks, Melissa Mason, Jack McCauley [credited as John McCauley], Dolores Milan, Janie New, Olga Novosel, William O'Shay, Jeanette Owens, Gibbs Penrose, 'June Preisser' (as "Tommy" / "Dancer"), Don Richards, Jack Riley, Dancing Boy Harry Rogue, Betsy Ross, Dixie Ross, Vicki Ross, Elizabeth Ryan, Margaret Ryan, William Sharon, Robert Shaw, Nina Starkey, Marian Sumetz, Alice Tyrell, Joe Viggiano, Milton Watson, Pat Weakley, Don Weissmuller, Marie Wilson, Willard Woolsey. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J.Shubert, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Richard W. Krakauer and W. Horace Schmidlapp. Production supervised by Harry Kaufman.

(1944) Stage Play: That Old Devil. Written by J.C. Nugent. Directed by J.C. Nugent. Playhouse Theatre: 5 Jun 1944- 17 Jun 1944 (16 performances). Cast: Michael Ames (as "Jerry Swift"), Matt Briggs (as "John Woodruff"), Mary Dickson (as "Mrs. Robinson"), Agnes Doyle (as "Lila Merrill"), J. Colvin Dunn (as "Wilbur Blime"), Ruth Gates (as "Mrs. Woodruff"), Luella Gear (as "Martha Blair"), Ruth Gilbert (as "Hester"), David Jordan (as "Officer Williamson"), Warren Lyons (as "Harry Robinson"), Lou McGuire (as "Mrs. Blime"), J.C. Nugent (as "Jim Blair"), Matthew Smith (as "Doctor Davis"). Produced by Lodewick Vroom.

(1948) Stage Play: My Romance. Musical. Music by Sigmund Romberg [final Broadway credit during lifetime]. Book by Rowland Leigh. Lyrics by Rowland Leigh. From "Romance" by Edward Sheldon. Music orchestrated by Don Walker. Musical Director: Roland Fiore. Choreographed by Fredric N. Kelly. Scenic Design by Watson Barratt. Costume Design by Lou Eisele. Deirected by Rowland Leigh. Shubert Theatre (moved to The Adelphi Theatre from 7 Dec 1948- close): 19 Oct 1948- 8 Jan 1949 (95 performances). Cast: Anne Jeffreys (as "Mme. Marguerita Cavallini"), Lawrence Brooks (as "Bishop Armstrong"), Luella Gear (as "Octavia Fotheringham"), Gail Adams, Andy Aprea, Tom Bate, Bill Berrian, Muriel Birkhead, Patricia Boyer, Marion Bradley, Martha Burnett, Nat Burns, LeRoy Bush, Tito Coral, Donald Crocker, Hazel Dawn, Verna Epperly, Rex Evans, Hildegarde Halliday (as "Miss Potherton"), Madeline Holmes, Edith Lane, Lou Maddox, Melton Moore, Natalie Norman, Doris Patston, Barbara Patton, June Reimer, Harold Ronk, Melville Ruick, Joan Shepard, Mary Jane Sloan, Norval Tormsen, Allegra Varron, Lawrence Weber. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.

(1952) Stage Play: To Be Continued. Comedy.

(1953) Stage Play: Sabrina Fair. Comedy. Written by Samuel A. Taylor. Scenic and Lighting Design by Donald Oenslager. Costume Supervision by Bianca Stroock. Assistant to Mr. Oenslager: Klaus Holm. Directed by H.C. Potter. National Theatre (moved to The Royale Theatre, from 17 May 1954-close): 11 Nov 1953- 21 Aug 1954 (318 performances). Cast: Joseph Cotten (as "Linus Larrabee Jr."), Margaret Sullavan (as "Sabrina Fairchild"), Russell Collins (as "Fairchild"), John Cromwell (as "Linus Larrabee"), Robert Duke (as "Paul D'Argenson"), Luella Gear (as "Julia Ward McKinlock"), Lorraine Grover (as "Another Young Woman"), Scott McKay (as "David Larrabee"), Gordon Mills (as "A Young Man"), Cathleen Nesbitt (as "Maude Larrabee"), Katharine Raht (as "Margaret"), Harriet Selby (as "A Young Woman"), Michael Steele (as "Another Young Man"), Ruth Woods (as "Gretchen"). Replacement cast (during National Theatre run): Tod Andrews (as "Linus Larrabee, Jr.") [from 29 May 1954- ?], Leora Dana (as "Sabrina Fairchild") [from 29 May 1954- ?], Jayne Heller (as "Gretchen") [from 29 May 1954- ?], Edith Meiser (as "Julia Ward McKinlock") [from 26 Apr 1954- 24 May 1954], Frederic Worlock (as "Linus Larrabee") [from 29 May 1954- ?]. Produced by The Playwrights' Company (Maxwell Anderson, Robert Anderson, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sherwood, Roger L. Stevens, John F. Wharton). Note: Filmed as Sabrina (1954), Sabrina (1995).

(1957) Stage Play: Four Winds. Written by Thomas Phipps [only Broadway credit]. Directed by Guthrie McClintic. Cort Theatre: 25 Sep 1957- 12 Oct 1957 (21 performances). Cast: Peter Cookson (as "Garrett Scott"), Carl Esmond [only Broadway credit], Luella Gear (as "Audrey Pender"), Bob Hardy (as "Jeremy Paget"), Harry Shaw Lowe, Harry Mehaffey, Conrad Nagel (as "Gage"), James Rennie, Ann Todd, Ludmila Toretzka (as "Mademoiselle"). Produced by Worthington Miner [final Broadway credit] and Kenneth Wagg.

(July 11-16 1960) She acted in Lesley Storm's play, "Roar like a Dove," at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine in a John Lane presentation with Betsy Palmer, Paul McGrath and Patrick Horgan in the cast.