| Blue Jeans | |
|---|---|
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Blue_Jeans_(play).jpg) 1899 poster depicting the famous saw mill scene from Blue Jeans | |
| Written by | Joseph Arthur |
| Date premiered | October 6, 1890 (New York) 1898 (London) |
| Place premiered | Fourteenth Street Theatre, New York City |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Drama |
| Setting | Indiana, USA |
Blue Jeans is a melodramatic play by Joseph Arthur that opened in New York City in 1890 to great popularity. The sensation of the play is a scene where the unconscious hero is placed on a board approaching a huge buzz saw in a sawmill, which became one of the most imitated dramatic scenes (eventually to the point of cliche and parody). The play remained popular for decades and was made into a successful silent film in 1917, also named Blue Jeans.[1][2]
- ^ Bordman, Gerald Martin & Thomas S. Hischak The Oxford companion to American theatre, p. 80 (3d ed 2004)
- ^ Singer, Ben. Melodrama and modernity: early sensational cinema and its contexts, pp. 183-84 (2001)