- (1912 - 1931) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1931) Stage Play: Little Women. Written by Louisa May Alcott. Book adapted by Marian De Forest [final Broadway credit during lifetime]. Directed by William A. Brady Jr. Playhouse Theatre: 7 Dec 1931- Dec 1931 (closing date unknown/17 performances). Cast: Burr Caruth (as "Mr. March"), Jane Corcoran (as "Aunt March"), Lee Crowe (as "Laurie"), Marie Curtis (as "Mrs. March"), Carson Davenport (as "Mr. Lawrence"), Arthur Donaldson (as "Professor Frederich Bhaer"), Peg Entwistle (as "Amy"), Jessie Royce Landis (as "Jo"), Caroline Newcombe (as "Hannah Mullett"), Lee Patrick (as "Meg"), Joanna Roos (as "Beth"), Harry Worth (as "John Brooke"). Produced by William A. Brady.
- (1916) Stage Play: Little Women. Written by Louisa May Alcott. Book adapted by Marian De Forest. Park Theatre: 18 Dec 1916- Jan 1917 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Marion Coakley, Cherie Coleman, E.A. Eberle, Mrs. A.E. Eberle, Lynn Hammond, Florence Huntington, Paul Kelly, Eleanor Seybolt, Marion Swayne, John Von Rittberg, Adelyn Wesley, Charles White. Produced by William A. Brady. Notes: 1) Mr. Brady produced a film version as Little Women (1918) [shot largely at Ralph Waldo Emerson's home in Concord, MA] that was unable to find a distributor. It was finally distributed by Paramount Pictures in 1919. Ms. De Forest did not receive credit for adapting the source for the play. 2) Neither the more famous RKO film adaptation Little Women (1933) nor MGM's version Little Women (1949) drew from Ms. De Forest's stage adaptation.
- (1916) Stage Play: Erstwhile Susan. Written by Marian De Forest. Based on the novel "Barnabetta" by Helen R. Martin. Gaiety Theatre: 18 Jan 1916- Jun 1916 (closing date unknown/167 performances). Cast: Samuel Aidenfelder (as "Joseph Yoder"), Hugh Chilvers (as "Robert Marsh"), Anita Clarendon (as "Mrs. Winthrop"), John W. Cope (as "Barnaby Dreary"), Harry Cowley (as "Absalom Puntz"), Madeline Delmar (as "Barnabetta Dreary"), Anne Faystone (as "Alice Meredith"), Mrs. Fiske (as "Juliet Miller/Erstwhile Susan"), Robert Stowe Gill (as "Jacob Dreary"), Maude Longnecker (as "Em. Wackernagel"), Owen Meech (as "Emanuel Dreary"), Wylda Millison (as "Ramah Schwenkfelders"), John Daly Murphy (as "Abel Buchter"), Edward Robins (as "David Jordan"), Marie Sasee (as "Jennie Getz"), Henry B. Vogel (as "Abraham"). Produced by Corey-Williams-Riter Inc. Note: Filmed as Erstwhile Susan (1919).
- (1912) Stage Play: Little Women. Drama. Written by Marian De Forest [earliest Broadway credit]. Based on the story by Louisa May Alcott. Conceived by Jessie Bonstelle. Directed by Bertram Harrison and Jessie Bonstelle. Playhouse Theatre: 14 Oct 1912- Mar 1913 (closing date unknown/184 performances). Cast: Marie Pavey, Gertrude Berkeley, Alice Brady (as "Meg"), John Cromwell (as "John Brooke"), Carson Davenport, Lillian Dix, Mrs. E.A. Eberle, Howard Estabrook, Lynn Hammond, Gladys Hulette, Carl Sauerman, Beverly West. Produced by William A. Brady.
- (August 1936) His play, "Erstwhile Susan," was performed at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine with Lillian Foster, Joanna Roos, Wilfred Seagram and Thomas W. Ross in the cast.
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