Guide to the "Winged Victory" Playbill MSS.3148
Winged Victory Playbill
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
November 2010
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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- Language Usage:
English
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Unit ID:
MSS.3148
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.05 Linear feet
- Dates:
1945 January 7
- Abstract:
A playbill for a Chicago production of Moss Hart's 1945 play, Winged Victory.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2008
Scope and Contents note
A playbill for a production of Moss Hart's Winged Victory, performed in the Opera House on Wacker Drive at Madison in Chicago, Illinois, in January, 1945. According to the playbill, the company of Winged Victory consisted entirely of Army Air Forces personnel - 319 service personnel (cast, orchestra, choral group, and production staff) and 39 civilians (cast and production staff).
Biographical/Historical note
Winged Victory was a play written by Moss hart and produced by the United States Army Air Forces in order to boost morale and raise funds for the Army Emergency Relief Fund. The play depicts a group of young trainees from a cross-section of American young men as they work together through pilot training. The play opened in Boston in the fall of 1943, and in New York at the 44th Street Theater in November that same year, playing before 350,000 people in 226 performances there. In 1944, Twentieth Century Fox bought the rights to the film and produced it using a few of the play's actors. Following the film's release, the play toured the country to a combined audience of over 800,000.
- Access Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Access note
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- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Winged Victory Playbill, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Processing Information:
Processed by
James N. Gilbreath, 2010
Source(s)
World War, 1939-1945 (lcsh)
Playbill Box SC0052 Folder 3148.1