Russell Janney (April 14, 1884 – July 14, 1963) was an American theatrical producer and author.
He also produced and co-authored the 1925 musical The Vagabond King, working with Brian Hooker and composer Rudolf Friml.
Janney also produced other plays including Marjolaine (1922) (based on Pomander Walk by Louis N. Parker),[1] White Eagle (1927) (based on Edwin Milton Royle's The Squaw Man),[2][3] June Love,[4] Ballyhoo (1927), and an adaption of The O'Flynn (1934) by Justin Huntly McCarthy.
[5] His second novel, So Long As Love Remembers, was published in 1953,[6] and the short novel Curtain Call followed in 1957.
[7] Janney was born in Wilmington, Ohio and graduated from Yale University in 1906.