Stanley Gilkey (1900-1979), also known as Stanley Gilky, was a production manager, producer, and actor on Broadway.[1]
He attended Harvard University and graduated from the university in 1923.[2][failed verification] He was executive producer for Guthrie McClintic for 35 years, and later a general manager for theatrical producer Robert Whitehead. Robert Whitehead and Elia Kazan were the producers of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, and Gilkey was the general manager for their productions for the first two seasons as well as the theater board's acting administrator.[3][4]
In 1947, he was the producer of Message for Margaret (1947), which only lasted five performances over the course of three days.[5] He later was a co-producer with Michael P. Grace ll and Harry Rigby for John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953). Gilky had produced five Broadway show prior to The Almanac.[6] However, Grace and Rigby both had only one production as producers prior to the co-production. Grace, like Gilky, had also produced a Broadway show that closed after a few days, The King of Friday's Men (1951).[7] There was clearly a certain level of risk for the co-production, but The Almanac show was a success and went on to complete 229 performances.[8]
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