Inherit the Wind
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2007 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright, as an unpublished work, 1951, renewed 1979 by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Copyright © 1955, renewed 1983 by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1955.
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
ACT ONE
ACT TWO
ACT THREE
About the Author
INHERIT THE WIND was presented by Herman Shumlin, in association with Margo Jones, at the National Theatre, New York City, April 21, 1955, with the following cast:
(IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)
| MELINDA | Mary Kevin Kelly |
| HOWARD | Eric Berne |
| RACHEL BROWN | Bethel Leslie |
| MEEKER | Robert P. Lieb |
| BERTRAM CATES | Karl Light |
| MR. GOODFELLOW | Salem Ludwig |
| MRS. KREBS | Sara Floyd |
| REV. JEREMIAH BROWN | Staats Cotsworth |
| CORKIN | Fred Herrick |
| BOLLINGER | Donald Elson |
| PLATT | Fred Miller |
| MR. BANNISTER | Charles Thompson |
| MRS. LOOMIS | Rita Newton |
| HOT DOG MAN | Howard Caine |
| MRS. MCCLAIN | Margherita Sargent |
| MRS. BLAIR | Ruth Newton |
| ELIJAH | Charles Brin |
| E. K. HORNBECK | Tony Randall |
| HURDY GURDY MAN | Harry Shaw |
| TIMMY | Jack Banning |
| MAYOR | James Maloney |
| MATTHEW HARRISON BRADY | Ed Begley |
| MRS. BRADY | Muriel Kirkland |
| TOM DAVENPORT | William Darrid |
| HENRY DRUMMOND | Paul Muni |
| JUDGE | Louis Hector |
| DUNLAP | Fred Miller |
| SILLERS | Fred Herrick |
| REUTER’S MAN | Edmund Williams |
| HARRY Y. ESTERBROOK | Perry Fiske |
Townspeople, hawkers, reporters, jurors, spectators, played by: Lou Adelman, Joseph Brownstone, Clifford Carpenter, Michael Constantine, Michael Del Medico, James Greene, Ruth Hope, Sally Jessup, Julie Knox, Patricia Larson, Michael Lewin, Evelyn Mando, Sarah Meade, Gian Pace, Richard Poston, Jack Riano, Gordon Russell, Carroll Saint, Robert Shannon, Maurice Shrog.
Directed by Herman Shumlin
Settings by Peter Larkin
Lighting by Feder
Costumes by Ruth Morley
Assistant Director: Terese Hayden
INHERIT THE WIND was first presented at the Dallas Theatre ’55 on January 10, 1955. The cast included Edward Cullen, J. Frank Lucas, James Field, Louise Latham, Harry Bergman, Kathleen Phelan, Gilbert Milton, Edwin Whitner, Joe Walker, Michael Dolan, Dolores Walker, John Maddox, Sadie French, Sam Brunstein, Tommy Wright, Joe Parker, Joan Breymer, Harriet Slaughter, Eddie Gale, Morgan Wilson, Charlie West and Fred Hoskins. Margo Jones directed.