10 Facts About Cheryl Crawford

Cheryl Crawford was an American theatre producer and director.

Cheryl Crawford then worked her way through various backstage jobs, including assistant stage manager, to assistant to the “Board of Managers, ” an importantant administrative job.

Cheryl Crawford was impressed with these two young men and joined their animated discussions about the need for a radically new form of American theatre.

In 1930 Cheryl Crawford urged Clurman to start giving semi-public talks to groups of like-minded actors.

Cheryl Crawford had a major role in selecting the early plays produced by The Group, beginning with their first one, The House of Connelly by North Carolina playwright Paul Green, whom she later introduced to composer Kurt Weill.

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Cheryl Crawford encouraged their subsequent collaboration, Weill's first American project, the musical Johnny Johnson, was the last production she worked on before resigning from The Group Theatre in 1937 to become an independent producer.

Cheryl Crawford was influential in the early careers of such actors as Helen Hayes, Bojangles Robinson, Mary Martin, Ethel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Tallulah Bankhead, and Paul Robeson, among many others.

Cheryl Crawford is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame, earning induction in 1979.

Cheryl Crawford was a lesbian and was linked romantically with her fellow Group Theatre actress Dorothy Patten, with whom she lived for several years in the 1930s.

Patten and Cheryl Crawford visited each other's family homes in Chattanooga and Akron.