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The Petrified Forest is a 1934 two-act play by American playwright Robert E. Sherwood. It is a melodrama, with a large cast and one setting. The story takes place inside a cafe called the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q and Filling Station, on a lonely crossroads in eastern Arizona.
- January 7, 1935
- Broadhurst Theatre
Jun 1935. Performances. 197. Play Drama Original Broadway. ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION. Theatres. Broadhurst Theatre. (Jan 07, 1935 - Jun 1935) Description. A play in two acts. Setting. The Black Mesa Bar-B-Q, a gas station and lunch room at a lonely crossroads in the eastern Arizona desert. People. Production Staff. Opening Night Cast.
The Petrified Forest, drama in two acts by Robert Sherwood, published and produced in 1935. This melodramatic Depression-era tale of frustrated lives and spiritual emptiness is set in a gas station and lunchroom along an Arizona highway.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Description. A play in two acts. NYC PRODUCTIONS. 1. Jan 7, 1935 - Jun 1935. Broadhurst Theatre, New York, NY. Play Original. 2. Nov 1, 1943 - Nov 06, 1943. New Amsterdam Roof, New York, NY. Play Revival. The original Broadway production of The Petrified Forest opened on Jan 7, 1935.
Language. English. The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American crime drama film directed by Archie Mayo and based on Robert E. Sherwood 's 1934 drama of the same name. The motion picture stars Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. [1]
- February 8, 1936 (United States)
- Hal B. Wallis (executive producer, uncredited)
Photograph of the Broadway production of The Petrified Forest: Date: June 1935: Source: Picture Play, June 1935 (pp. 34–35) immediate source; Author: Street & Smith; photograph by Vandamm Studio: Permission (Reusing this file)
Jan 25, 2018 · It would be all too easy to mistakenly identify The Petrified Forest (Mayo 1936) as a classic Warners’ gangster movie starring Humphrey Bogart as a vicious mobster hunted by the law, with a tragic romantic subplot featuring a young Bette Davis and a middle-aged Leslie Howard.