- (1918 - 1965) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1918) Stage Play: The Betrothal. Written by Maurice Maeterlinck. Translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos. Directed by Winthrop Ames. Shubert Theatre (moved to The Century Theatre from 1 Feb 1919- close): 28 Nov 1918- Mar 1919 (closing date unknown/120 performances). Cast: H.J. Carvill (as "The Great Peasant"), Claude Cooper (as "Drunken Ancestor"), Georges Du Bois (as "Murderer Ancestor"), Augustin Duncan (as "The Great Ancestor"), Elwyn Eaton (as "The Great Mendicant"), Sylvia Field (as "Joy") [Broadway debut], Gladys George (as "Jalline") [Broadway debut], Winifred Lenihan (as "Belline") [Broadway debut], Barry Macollum (as "The Sick Ancestor"), Mrs. Jacques Martin (as "The Fairy Berylune"), Lillian Roth (as "Tyltyl's Grandchild"), Reggie Sheffield (as "Tyltyl"), Allen Thomas (as "The Rich Ancestor"), Henry Travers (as "Daddy Tyl"), June Walker (as "Roselle"), George Wolcott (as "Tyltyl's Last Born"), "Boots" Wooster (as "Milette"). Produced by Winthrop Ames.
- (1919) Stage Play: Thunder. Comedy. Written by Peg Franklin. Criterion Theatre: 22 Sep 1919- Oct 1919 (closing date unknown/33 performances). Cast: Charles Althoff (as "Fidler"), Leila Bennett (as "Mandy Coulter"), Marie Day (as "Ma McBirney"), Wilson Day (as "Mr. Disbrow"), Eva Dennison (as Mrs. Carson"), Sylvia Field (as "Azalea"), Mart E. Heisey (as "Tom Gerson"), Horace James, Benjamin Kauser, Marion Kerby (as "Mrs. Kitchell"), Charles McDonald (as "Jeff Coulter"), Burr McIntosh (as "Preacher"), Chester Morris (as "Sam Disbrow"), Guy Nichols, Sam Reed (as "Pliny Doane"), Blanche Talbot (as Mrs. Doane"), George Wright Jr. Produced by John Golden.
- (1922) Stage Play: The Cat and the Canary. Melodrama.
- (1923. Stage Play: Connie Goes Home. Comedy. Written by Edward Childs Carpenter. Based on a story by Fanny Kilbourne [credited as Fannie Kilbourn]. Directed by Frederick Stanhope. 49th Street Theatre: 6 Sep 1923- Sep 1923 (closing date unknown/20 performances). Cast: Berton Churchill (as "George M. Barclay"), Florence Earle (as "Mrs. Gibbs"), Lorna Elliott (as "Mrs. Merrick"), Sylvia Field (as "Connie"), Donald Foster (as "Jim"), Audrey Hart (as "Josephine Pierce"), Fred Irving Lewis (as "Chester Barclay"), Martha Madison (as "Hilda"), Harry E. McKee (as "Albert"), Arlina McMahon (as "Molly Latimer"), Ethel Remey (as "Isobel Wayne"), Valerie Valaire (as "Edna St. Cloud"). Produced by Kilbourn Gordon.
- (1924) Stage Play: Cock O' the Roost. Comedy. Written by Rida Johnson Young. Liberty Theatre: 13 Oct 1924- Nov 1924 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast included: Lionel Bevans, Harry Davenport, Edward Donnelly, Sylvia Field (as "Clare Clarke"), Donald Foster, Desmond Gallagher, Allen Lee, Tracy L'Engle, Purnell Pratt (as "Henry Barron"), Elisabeth Risdon (as "Mrs. Dawn"), Agnes Roslyn (as "Mildred"), Katherine Wilson. Produced by The Dramatists Theatre Inc.
- (1925) Stage Play: Mrs. Partridge Presents. Comedy. Written by Mary Kennedy and Ruth Hawthorne. Directed by Guthrie McClintic. Belmont Theatre: 5 Jan 1925- Mar 1925 (closing date unknown/144 performances). Cast: Blanche Bates, Elliot Cabot, C. Havilland Chappell, Virginia Chauvenet, Edward Emery, Sylvia Field, Ruth Gordon (as "Katherine Everitt"), Ruth Gordon, Augusta Haviland, Edwin Morse, Charles Waldron, William Worthington. Produced by Guthrie McClintic.
- (1925) Stage Play: Something To Brag About. Comedy/farce.
- (1925) Stage Play: The Butter and Egg Man. Comedy. Written by George S. Kaufman. Directed by James Gleason. Longacre Theatre: 23 Sep 1925- Apr 1926 (closing date unknown/243 performances). Cast: George Alison, Marion Barney, John A. Butler, Tom Fadden, Sylvia Field (as "Jane Weston"), Gregory Kelly, Denman Maley, Robert Middlemass (as "Joseph Lehman"), Harry Neville, Eloise Stream, Harry Stubbs (as "Bernie Sampson"), Puritan Townsend, Lucille Webster. Produced by Crosby Gaige.
- (1926) Stage Play: The Little Spitfire. Comedy. Written by Myron C. Fagan. Directed by A.H. Van Buren. Cort Theatre: 16 Aug 1926- Feb 1927 (closing date unknown/200 performances). Cast: Peggy Allenby (as "Patricia Longworth"), Theresa Maxwell Conover (as "Mrs. Ralston"), Sylvia Field (qs "Gypsy"), Walter Glass (as "A Bell Boy"), H. Dudley Hawley (as "Stanley Markham"), Andrew Lawlor Jr. (as "Frank Gorman"), Russell Mack (as "Marty Gorman"), Frank M. Thomas (as "Brooks"), A.H. Van Buren (as "Peter Ralston"), Raymond Van Sickle (as "James Ralston"), Eileen Wilson. Produced by Benjamin F. Witbeck.
- (1926) Stage Play: Broadway. Drama. Written by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. Directed by George Abbott. Broadhurst Theatre: 16 Sep 1926- 11 Feb 1928 (603 performances). Cast: Constance Brown, Sylvia Field (as "Billie Moore"), William Foran, Robert Gleckler (as "Steve Crandall"), Thomas E. Jackson (as "Dan McCorn"), Roy R. Lloyd (as "Mike"), Millard Mitchell (as "Larry"), Paul Porcasi (as "Nick Verdis"), Ann Preston (as "Katie"), Molly Ricardel, Henry Sherwood, Joseph Calleia [credited as Joseph Spurin-Calleia] (as "Joe, a waiter"), Eloise Stream (as "Pearl"), Lee Tracy (as "Roy Lane"), Edith Van Cleve (as "Ruby"), Frank Verigun (as "Benny"), Mildred Wall (as "Mazie Smith"), Clare Woodbury (as "Lil Rice"), John Wray (as "Scar Edwards"). Produced by Jed Harris. Note: Filmed by Universal Pictures as Broadway (1929) (an all-talkie, with Paul Porcasi and Thomas E. Jackson recreating their stage roles, produced on a then eye-popping $1,000,000 budget), Broadway (1942), Broadway (1938).
- (1927) Stage Play: Behold This Dreamer. Drama.
- (1927) Stage Play: The Royal Family. Comedy.
- (1930) Stage Play: Marco Millions. Comedy (revival).
- (1930) Stage Play: Volpone. Comedy (revival). Written by Ben Jonson. Directed by Philip Moeller. Liberty Theatre: 10 Mar 1930- Mar 1930 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Lucille Banner (as "Maid to Colomba"), Alan Blaine (as "Sbirri"), George Cotton (as "Sbirri"), Walter Coy (as "Sbirri"), John C. Davis (as "Corbaccio's servant/Priest"), Fred DeVeau (as "Sbirri"), Sylvia Field (as "Colomba"), Philip Foster (as "Captain of the Sbirri"), Walter Franklyn (as "Singer"), Sydney Greenstreet (as "Volpone"), John Henry (as "Slave to Volpone"), Edgar Kent, Earle Larrimore (as "Mosca"), Thomas Mackay (as "Sbirri"), Sydney Little Mansfield (as "3rd Servant"), Burton McEvilly, Sanford Meisner, Harry Mestayer (as "Corvino"), Clifford Odets (as "Sbirri") [Broadway debut], Frederick Roland (as "Voltore"), Lucian Scott (as "Clerk of the Court"), Vincent Sherman (as "Singer/Court Attendant"), Donald Smith (as "Singer"), Don Sylvester (as "Sbirri"), Helen Tilden, Albert Dekker (as "Leone") [credited as Albert Van Dekker], Francis Ward, Harry Wise, Martin Wolfson (as "2nd Servant"), Paul Yost (as "Singer"). Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1930) Stage Play: The Up and Up. Comedy.
- (1930) Stage Play: Queen at Home. Comedy.
- (1931) Stage Play: Give Me Yesterday. Melodrama.
- (1931) Stage Play: Just to Remind You. Drama.
- (1931) Stage Play: Caught Wet.
- (1931) Stage Play: Adams' Wife. Drama. Written by Theodore St. John. Ritz Theatre: 28 Dec 1931- Jan 1932 (closing date unknown/8 performances). Cast: Eric Dressler, Sylvia Field (as "Jennie Adams"), Victor Kilian (as "Jim Adams"), Arthur C. Morris, Ernest Pollock (as "Chris Nelson"), Alonzo Thayer, Ralph Urmy. Produced by William A. Brady.
- (1933) Stage Play: Hilda Cassidy.
- (1933) Stage Play: Uncle Tom's Cabin. Melodrama. Written by G. L. Aiken. Musical program directed by Harry Gilbert. Revised by A.E. Thomas. Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Musical program prepared by Edward T. Emery. Directed by Earle Boothe. Alvin Theatre: 29 May 1933- Jun 1933 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Fay Bainter (as "Topsy"), Thomas Chalmers (as "Simon Legree"), Lyster Chambers (as "Haley"), Joseph Cummings Chase, George Christie (as "Mr. Wilson"), Russel Crouse (as "Ensemble"), Owen Culbertson, Francis H. Day, Pedro de Cordoba (as "George Harris"), Elizabeth Dewing, Malcolm Duncan, Mrs. Edward D. Dunn, Edward Delaney Dunn, Minnie Dupree (as "Aunt Ophelia"), Edwin T. Emery (as "Second Bidder"), Essie Emery, Sylvia Field (as "Marie"), William Fisher, Harry Gilbert, Ernest Glendinning (as "St. Clare"), Eleanor Goodrich, Harold W. Gould (as "Skeggs, the Auctioneer"), Harry Gresham (as "Quimbo"), Amy Groesbeck, Burford Hampden, Oswald Hering, Richard Hoffmann, Frederick Jagel, John C. King, John Knight, John Kramer, Wright Kramer, Ben Lackland (as "Sambo"), Roy Le May, Nancy Levering, Gene Lockhart (as "Gumption Cute"), Kathleen Lockhart (as "Ensemble"), Cecilia Loftus (as "Aunt Chloe"), Alice MacKenzie, Edward McNamara (as "Phineas Fletcher"), Oswald Marshall, Kate Mayhew (as "Aunt Hagar"), Harold McGee, Samuel Merwin, Earl Mitchell, T.H. Montgomery, John Daly Murphy (as "Marks"), Patricia O'Connell, Janice O'Connell, Patricia O'Connell, Paul Parks, George Riddell, Elisabeth Risdon (as "Eliza"), Lois Shore, Florence Short, Otis Skinner (as "Uncle Tom"), James Stanley, Harold Staton, W.B. Taylor, Raymond Thayer, Grenville Vernon, John Barnes Wells, Frank Wilcox (as "George Fisk"). Produced by The Players Club.
- (1933) Stage Play: Birthright. Drama. Written by Richard Maibaum. Scenic Design by Cleon Throckmorton. Directed by Robert Rossen. 49th Street Theatre: 21 Nov 1933- Nov 1933 (closing date unknown/7 performances). Cast: Jay Addison (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"), Don Beddoe (as "Kurt Strasser"), Julio Brown (as "Freeda"), Alan Bunce, Rose Burdick (as "Elga"), Charles P. Burrows (as "Abram"), Stephen Courtleigh (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"), Harold Elliott (as "Friedrich Lowenberg"), Sylvia Field (as "Clara"), Montagu Love (as "Jakob Eisner"), Charlotte Reynolds (as "Hilda"), Hayden Rorke [credited as Hayden Roike] (as "Karl"), Don Shelton (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"), Edgar Stehli (as "Joseph"), Milano Tilden, Herbert Warren (as "Leopold"), Courtney White (as "Hugo"), Larry Williams (as "Nazi Shock Trooper"). Produced by Irving Barrett and Robert Rossen.
- (1934) Stage Play: Sing and Whistle. Comedy. Written by Milton Herbert Gropper. Scenic Design by Cleon Throckmorton. Directed by Ernest Truex. Fulton Theatre: 10 Feb 1934- Apr 1934 (closing date unknown/74 performances). Cast: Sylvia Field (as "Sylvia Jillson"), Donald MacDonald (as "Hugo Dickens"), Dorothy Mathews (as "Carole Dickens"), Ernest Truex (as "Frank Jillson"). Produced by Milton Herbert Gropper and Ernest Truex.
- (1935) Stage Play: The Distant Shore. Drama. Written by Donald Blackwell and Theodore St. John. Directed by Robert Ross. Morosco Theatre: 21 Feb 1935- Mar 1935 (closing date unknown/13 performances). Cast: Barbara Allen, Andy Anderson, Edith Angold, Violet Besson, Sybil Campbell, Jeanne Caselle, Francis Compton, William Fender Jr., Sylvia Field (as "Sylvia Sheldon"), Mabel Gore, Harry Green, William M. Griffith, Dennis Gurney, Edgar Kent (as "Sergeant Barnes"), Roy Le May, James MacDonald, Eric Mansfield, James McKay, Mary Michael, Hale Norcross, William Postance, Roger Stearns, Morton Stevens, Jean Tate, Kenneth Treseder (as "Doctor Nichols"), Elizabeth Valentine, Ruth Vivian, Dean West, Roland Young (as "Edgar Bond"). Produced by Dwight Wiman.
- (1935) Stage Play: Achilles Had a Heel. Produced by Walter Hampden.
- (1936) Stage Play: Pre-Honeymoon. Comedy. Written by Alford Von Ronkel and Anne Nichols . Scenic Design by Cirker & Robbins. Directed by Alford Von Ronkel and Anne Nichols. Lyceum Theatre (moved to The Little Theatre from ? Oct 1936- close): 30 Apr 1936- Dec 1936 (closing date unknown/253 performances). Cast: Thomas Patrick Dillon, Allen H. Fagan, Sylvia Field (as "Jean Hammond"), Clyde Fillmore (as "Sen. Dexter"), Franklyn Fox (as "Mr. Bell"), Georgette Harvey, Louis Jean Heydt (as "Joe Dukes"), Jessie Royce Landis (as "Virginia Barnard"), Pass Le Noir (as "Mr. Jones"), Millicent Manners, Marjorie Peterson, Roy Roberts (as "Ken Arnold"), Morgan Stuart. Produced by Anne Nichols.
- (1936) Stage Play: White Man. Drama.
- (1936) Stage Play: Matrimony Pfd. Comedy. Written by Louis Verneuil. Book adapted by Grace George and James Forbes. Directed by José Ruben. Playhouse Theatre: 12 Nov 1936- Jan 1937 (closing date unknown/61 performances). Cast: Rosemary Ames, Sylvia Field (as "Mrs. Robert Levy-de Coudray"), Grace George (as "Linda Lessing"), A.J. Herbert, May Marshall, A.E. Matthews (as "Victor Gustav Martineau"), Victor Morley, Rex O'Malley, José Ruben (as "Andre Lorre"). Produced by William A. Brady.
- (October 9, 1952) She played Carrie McCall in the play, "The Fig Leaf," at the Selwyn Theatre in Chicago, Illinois with Ernest Truex (Fred McCall); Sally Moffet (Carmen Cassidy); James Costigan (Donald Duffy); James Leo (Harold Hillstover); Barbara Bolton (Heidi McCall); and Clifford Cothren (George "Binky" Binkley) in the cast.
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