Fair and Warmer

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Fair and Warmer is a 1915 comedy play by the American writer Avery Hopwood. It was first staged at the Eltinge Theatre in New York City on November 15, 1915, running for 377 performances, featuring Madge Kennedy, John Cumberland, Janet Beecher, Ralph Morgan, Hamilton Revelle, Olive May, Robert Fisher and Harry Lorraine. Staged by Robert Milton, it was well received by critics.^[1] It is a farce about a mild-mannered banker who becomes embroiled in an innocent scheme to rekindle the romance in his marriage using his best friend's wife.

Film adaptations

In 1919 the play was turned into an American silent film of the same title. The 1937 German comedy The Model Husband with Heinz Ruhmann was based on Hopwood's play and was followed up by West German and Swiss remakes in 1956 and 1959 respectively.

References

↑ Fisher & Hardison Londre p.162

Bibliography

Fisher, James & Hardison Londre, Felicia. The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.

External links

Fair and Warmer at the Internet Broadway Database

Plays by Avery Hopwood

As sole author	Fair and Warmer (1915) The Gold Diggers (1919) The Demi-Virgin (1921)

As co-author	The Girl in the Limousine (1919, with Wilson Collison) Ladies' Night (1920, with Charlton Andrews) The Bat (1920, with Mary Roberts Rinehart) Getting Gertie's Garter (1921, with Wilson Collison)

Related subjects	Hopwood Award

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