Sweet Kitty Bellairs (play)

Sweet Kitty Bellairs is a play in a prologue and four acts by David Belasco.

[1] It is based on the novel The Bath Comedy (1900) by married writing team Agnes and Egerton Castle.

[2] The work premiered at the Lafayette Square Opera House in Washington D.C. on November 23, 1903.

[1] Others in the cast included Katherine Florence (1874–1952) as Lady Standish, John E. Kellerd (1862–1929) as Lord Standish, Edwin Stevens as Colonel Villiers, Charles Hammond as Lord Verney, and Mark Smith as the Master of Ceremonies among others.

The first was the a 1916 silent film adaptation starring Mae Murray as Kitty Bellairs.

Henrietta Crosman as Kitty Bellairs in 1903
Henrietta Crosman as Kitty Bellairs