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- Yellow Jack is a 1934 docudrama play starring James Stewart and produced by Guthrie McClintic that was later adapted into a 1938 Hollywood movie by the same title. Both were co-written by Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif (the former a Pulitzer- and Oscar-winning playwright and screenwriter; the latter a well-known microbiologist and author). The play is the work of Sidney Howard and is based on a chapter in Paul de Kruif's 1927 book Microbe Hunters. James Stewart in his first dramatic role stars as Pvt. John O'Hara, a role reprised by Robert Montgomery in the 1938 film. Stewart later stated this role convinced him to continue his acting career during a time he recalled that "From 1932 through 1934...I'd only worked three months. Every play I got into folded." The experience led him to stay with acting and he first entered movies later that year in The Murder Man. Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld while covering the play for the New York Herald Tribune drew his first of 13 drawings (and only one from a play) he made over the course of Stewart's career. The play opened at the opulent Martin Beck Theatre on March 6, 1934, and ran for 79 performances. The Martin Beck was renamed in 2003 for Al Hirschfeld, who drew the caricature for Yellow Jack. Prior to its debut, Herman Bernstein's Jewish Daily Bulletin covered the play, attesting that it did not contain anti-semitic elements. (en)
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- New York today, London in January 1929, West Africa in June 1927, Cuba in 1900, and London in September 1929
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- MajorWalter Reedof the U.S. Army worked to diagnose and treatyellow fever(called "yellow jack") in Cuba in 1898–1900
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- Clockwise: Sam Levene, James Stewart, Edward Acuff, Katherine Wilson and Myron McCormick in the 1934 Broadway play (en)
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- New York today, London in January 1929, West Africa in June 1927, Cuba in 1900, and London in September 1929 (en)
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- Major Walter Reed of the U.S. Army worked to diagnose and treat yellow fever in Cuba in 1898–1900 (en)
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- Yellow Jack is a 1934 docudrama play starring James Stewart and produced by Guthrie McClintic that was later adapted into a 1938 Hollywood movie by the same title. Both were co-written by Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif (the former a Pulitzer- and Oscar-winning playwright and screenwriter; the latter a well-known microbiologist and author). The play is the work of Sidney Howard and is based on a chapter in Paul de Kruif's 1927 book Microbe Hunters. (en)
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