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Archy and Mehitabel (styled as archy and mehitabel) are fictional characters created in 1916 by Don Marquis, a columnist for The Evening Sun newspaper in New York City. Archy, a cockroach, and Mehitabel, an alley cat, appeared in hundreds of humorous verses and short stories in Marquis's daily column, "The Sun Dial".
Archy and Mehitabel: Directed by J. Robert Blum, Ed Greenberg. With Eddie Bracken, Kelly Brown, Tammy Grimes, Michael Kermoyan. Archy, a cockroach who had been a free-verse poet in a previous life, tries to reform his friend Mehitabel, an alley cat who believes in free love.
- J. Robert Blum, Ed Greenberg
- 1960-05-16
- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- 120
Productions. 1957 Broadway. 1960 US television. 2005 Melbourne, Australia. Shinbone Alley (sometimes performed as archy & mehitabel [1] [2]) is a musical with a book by Joe Darion and Mel Brooks, lyrics by Darion, and music by George Kleinsinger.
- 1957 Broadway, 1960 US television, 2005 Melbourne, Australia
- George Kleinsinger
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THE ANNOTATED ARCHY AND MEHITABEL: Editor Michael Sims presents more than 200 of Don Marquis' Archy tales in chronological order from 1916 through 1922, with insightful annotations that give the backstory to each one. It is part of the Penguin Classics series and is also available as an ebook.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Encyclopaedia Britannica. Archy and Mehitabel, collection of humorous stories by Don Marquis, originally published from 1916 in Marquis’s newspaper columns “The Sun Dial” in the New York Evening Sun and “The Lantern” in the New York Herald Tribune and published in book form in 1927.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
