Seven Keys to Baldpate Annotated

By Earl Derr Earl Derr

Seven Keys to Baldpate is a 1913 play by George M. Cohan based on a novel by Earl Derr Biggers. The dramatization was one of Cohan's most innovative plays. It baffled some audiences and critics but became a hit, running for nearly a year in New York, another year in Chicago and receiving later revivals; Cohan starred in the 1935 revival. Cohan adapted it as a film in 1917, and it was adapted for film six more times, and later for TV and radio. The play mixes all the formulaic melodrama of the era with a satirical send up of just those melodramatic stereotypes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09T36CB4Y
• ISBN13: 9798420583623
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"