Alias Jimmy Valentine is a 1909 play written by Paul Armstrong, based on the 1903 short story A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry.

The story follows a former safecracker's attempt to go straight, and the choice he must make between saving a child's life and exposing himself to arrest.

The play was produced by Liebler & Company, staged by Hugh Ford, with settings from Gates and Morange.

Lead Supporting Featured Bit Players The following was compiled from a large extract of the play published in Current Literature during 1910, and from newspaper reviews of 1909–1910.

Valentine enrages the Warden by refusing to pick the combination lock of the prison safe, claiming he has no knowledge of safecracking.

(Curtain) Act III (Randall's office at Fourth National Bank of Springfield, three years later.)

[1] Tyler commissioned Paul Armstrong to dramatize it, having been burnt before by Sydney Porter on turning his The World and the Door into a stage play.

Chicago Tribune critic Percy Hammond informed his readers "Miss Loretta Taylor... has precipitately left that play for reasons not made public and will appear as Mr. Warner's leading woman".

I inform you that the Messrs. Shubert have rented me like real estate to the Messrs. Liebler to play in Alias Jimmy Valentine.

[8] The leading lady, Laurette Taylor had been in a taxicab accident the night before, and appeared on stage with a discolored eye and patches coverings cuts on her face.

[12] The Chicago Tribune reviewer remarked on how quickly Paul Armstrong had written the play and said it showed on stage: "It is palpably patched, with most of the characters and some of the scenes obviously introduced for the mere purposes of exposition and then fading away into unimportance".

H. B. Warner's "prediliction to be artificial was not greatly in evidence" according to the Tribune critic, who saved their greatest accolades for Laurette Taylor.

[13] Between Chicago and the Broadway premiere there was some minor rewriting, as evidenced by cast list and review discrepancies.

[14] Originally scheduled for Tuesday, January 18, the unusual Friday premiere came as a result of an actor's vocal chord injury.

The reviewer for the Brooklyn Daily Times said: "...last night a good-sized crowd of Broadway's most proud and skeptical first nighters, armed with a polar coutenance and prepared to dislike anything, was thrilled".

[14] That reviewer also reported "The play occasionally rose above melodrama, but as one lady in the orchestra, who was low-necked in both gown and vocabulary, said, it was 'loose-jointed'.

[9] The author gave a curtain speech at the audience's insistence,[fn 2] in which he acknowledged the play's debt to O. Henry's A Retrieved Reformation.

[17] The production then went on hiatus for two months, reopening for its second season on August 22, 1910, again at Wallack's Theatre,[18] but with Elsie Leslie as the leading lady.

It starred Otto Kruger and Margalo Gillmore, with Harold Hartsell, Edmund Elton, and Earl Brown reprising their original roles.