Other works

(1939 - 1947) Active on Broadway in the following productions:

(1939) Stage Play: Summer Night. Drama. Written by Vicki Baum and Benjamin Glazer. Scenic Design by Robert Edmond Jones. Directed by Lee Strasberg. St. James Theatre: 2 Nov 1939- 4 Nov 1939 (4 performances). Cast: Wesley Addy (as "Melvyn Lockhart"), Lyle Bettger (as "Doctor"), Martin Blaine (as "The Roving Reporter"), Harold Bolton (as "First Picket"), Leonard Bremen (as "Photographer"), Dortha Brinsfield (as "Marathon Couple"), Louis Calhern (as "John B. Bingham"), Lewis Charles (as "Pinkey") [Broadway debut], Gage Clarke (as "George Cooper"), Clancy Cooper (as "Bartender"), Boyd Crawford (as "Pat"), Peter Cusanelli (as "Dance Judge"), Howard Da Silva (as "Speed"), Edmund Dorsey (as "Manager"), Eric Efron (as "Marathon Couple"), Herman Ergotti (as "The Littlest Man"), Helen Flint (as "Blanche Cooper"), Susan Fox (as "Ginger"), Charles Furcolowe (as "Second Picket"), Martin Greene (as "Marathon Couple"), Violet Heming (as "Marion Bingham"), Wilna Hervey (as "The Biggest Girl"), Adele Jerome (as "Marathon Couple"), Archie King (as "Marathon Couple"), Tony Kraber (as "Detective"), Peter Leeds (as "Marathon Couple"), Marion O'Brien (as "Nurse"), Robert Rhodes (as "Policeman"), Rita Rhoni (as "Mona"), Stephen Roberts (as "Marathon Couple"), Rebecca Rowen (as "Marathon Couple"), Polly Smiley (as "Marathon Couple"), Lionel Stander (as "Jake"), Guy Standing Jr. (as "Croupier"), Virginia Stevens (as "Nurse"), Sidney Stone (as "Barker"), Josephine Victor (as "Mama Rosario"). Produced by Lewis E. Gensler.

(1941) Stage Play: Good Neighbor. Written by Jack Levin. Directed by Sinclair Lewis. Windsor Theatre: 21 Oct 1941 (1 performance). Cast included: Arthur Anderson, Anna Appel, Donald Arbury, Helen Carter, Lewis Charles (as "Barney"), Grace Mills. Produced by Sam Byrd.

(1942) Stage Play: Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning and Talking to You. Fantasy.

(1942) Stage Play: The Sun Field. Comedy.

(1943) Stage Play: Boy Meets Girl. Comedy (revival). Written by Bella Spewack and Sam Spewack. Directed by Rodney Hale. Windsor Theatre: 22 Jun 1943- 3 Jul 1943 (15 performances). Cast: Joey Faye' (as "J. Carlyle Benson"), Theodora Bender (as "Peggy"), Sanford Bickart (as "Rosetti"), Lewis Charles (as "Robert Law"), Sara Lee Harris (as "Susie"), Bert Jeter (as "Green"), Catherine Linn (as "Miss Crews"), John Lynds (as "Major Thompson"), Norman MacKay (as "Larry Toms"), Gordon Nelson (as "Mr. Friday, C.F."), Stanley Phillips (as "Premiere Announcer"), Marshall Reid (as "Rodney Bevan"), Maurice Sommers (as "Slade"), John Souther (as "Doctor"), Mabel Taylor (as "Studio Nurse"). Produced by Lucia Victor.

(1943) Stage Play: The Milky Way. Comedy (revival). Written by Lynn Root and Harry Clork. Directed by Rodney Hale. Windsor Theatre: 9 Jun 1943- 20 Jun 1943 (16 performances). Cast included: Lewis Charles, Joey Faye, Helen Gillette, Bert Jeter, Max Leavitt, Lila Lee, Jerry Sylvon. Produced by Lucia Victor.

(1944) Stage Play: The Streets Are Guarded.

(1945) Stage Play: Star-Spangled Family. Comedy.

(1943) Stage Play: The Naked Genius. Comedy. Written by Gypsy Rose Lee. Scenic Design by Frederick Fox. Costume Design by Billy Livingston. Directed by George S. Kaufman. Plymouth Theatre: 21 Oct 1943- 20 Nov 1943 (36 performances). Cast: Joan Blondell (as "Honey Bee Carroll"), Frieda Altman (as "Mrs. Davis"), Mary Ashworth (as "Gladys"), Bertha Belmore (as "Lollie Adams"), Kay Buckley (as "Shop Girl"), Lewis Charles (as "Sam Hinkle"), George Cotton (as "A Moving Man"), Tom Daly (as "A Man"), Marie Louise Dana (as "Mrs. Goodwin"), Robert Downing (as "State Trooper"), Ralph Glover (as "A Man"), Judson Langill (as "Mr. Goodwin"), Ralph Lewis (as "A.P. Man"), Bernice Maison (as "Sally Martin"), Gil Maison (as "Teddy Martin"), Anton McQuade (as "Drunk"), Doro Merande (as "Myrtle McGuire"), Millard Mitchell (as "Stuart Tracy"), James Moore (as "First Judge"), Pauline Myers (as "Angela"), Edmonia Nolley (as "Miss Holmes"), Rex O'Malley (as "Fred-Eric"), Phyllis Povah (as "Pansy"), Eleanore Prentiss (as "Shop Girl"), Donald Randolph (as "Charles Goodwin"), Rosemary Rice (as "Emily") [Broadway debut], Emily Ross (as "Mrs. Thompson"), Marcel Rousseau (as "Alonzo") [final Broadway role], Byron Russell (as "Williams"), Georgia Sothern (as "Alibassi"), John Souther (as "Judge Taylor"), Karen Stevens (as "Shop Girl"), William Torpey (as "Second Judge"). Produced by Mike Todd. Note: Filmed by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation as Doll Face (1945).

(1946) Stage Play: Beggar's Holiday. Musical. Based on a book by John La Touche. Music by Duke Ellington. Directed by Nicholas Ray. Broadway Theatre: 26 Dec 1946- 29 Mar 1947 (111 performances). As "A Drunk." Cast included: Alfred Drake, Zero Mostel, Thomas Gomez, Herbert Ross, Royce Wallace. Produced by Perry Williams, Jr. and John R. Sheppard Jr.

(1943) Stage Play: Apology. Written by Charles Schnee. Directed by Lee Strasberg. Mansfield Theatre: 22 Mar 1943- 26 Mar 1943 (8 performances). Cast: Peggy Allardice (as "Evelyn"), Lewis Charles (as "Manny"), 'Clay Clement' (as "Mr. Warner/Mr. Downin/E.B."), Elissa Landi (as "The Lecturer"), Merle Maddern, Theodore Newton, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Thelma Schnee, Robert Simon, Ben Smith, Harold J. Stone (as "Fortune Teller/Janitor"), James Todd (as "Bingham/Lester Ballantine"). Produced by Lee Strasberg.