| The Marriage-Go-Round | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Leslie Stevens |
| Characters | Paul Delville Content Lowell (Mrs. Paul Delville) Katrin Sveg Ross Barnett[1] |
| Date premiered | October 29, 1958 |
| Place premiered | Plymouth Theatre |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Sex comedy |
| Setting | Traditional college town up the river from New York City, present-day[1] |
The Marriage-Go-Round is a 1958 play written by Leslie Stevens. The 1961 film adaptation of the same name, written and produced by Stevens, stars Susan Hayward, James Mason and Julie Newmar, who reprised her role from the play.
The play was inspired by a suggestion that dancer Isadora Duncan supposedly made to playwright George Bernard Shaw: The two of them should have a child because "with your mind and my body, think what a person it would be!"[2] The play, a sex comedy, was a Broadway theatre success with a run of over 700 performances; it did poorly at the box office .[3]
- ^ a b The Marriage-Go-Round at the Internet Broadway Database
- ^ The Marriage-Go-Round, a January 7, 1961 New York Times review of the film adaptation
- ^ "Marriage Go-Round" looks at love and fidelity from the website of the Redding Record Searchlight