was premiered in New York, but did not have its first professional British production until 1995. His 1951 play I Am a Camera, together with Christopher Isherwood's short stories, Goodbye to Berlin (1939), formed the basis of Joe Masteroff's book for the Kander and Ebb musical Cabaret (1966). When I Am a Camera opened on Broadway in 1951, The New York Times drama critic Walter Kerr wrote a famous three-word review: "Me no Leica." In the late 1930s and early 1940s, he was in a relationship with Carter Lodge (died 1995), who was the manager of the AJC Ranch that Van Druten, British actress Auriol Lee and Lodge bought together in Coachella Valley. When the relationship ended, Lodge continued to live on the ranch with his new partner, Dick Foote. When Van Druten died in 1957, he left the entire property of the ranch to Lodge and the rights in his work, including "I Am a Camera", which entitled Lodge to earn a percentage from the movie Cabaret (1972). He died at Indio, California on 19 December 1957 of undisclosed causes. He is buried in the Coachella Valley Public Cemetery. Plays The Return Half (1924) Chance Acquaintance (1927) Diversion (1927) Young Woodley (NY 1925, London 1928) The Return of the Soldier (from Rebecca West's novel, 1928) After All (1929, NY 1931) London Wall (1931) Sea Fever (with Auriol Lee, from the French, 1931) There's Always Juliet (1931, NY 1932) Hollywood Holiday (with Benn W. Levy, 1931) Somebody Knows (1932) Behold, We Live (1932) The Distaff Side (1933, NY 1934) Flowers of the Forest (1934) Most of the Game (1935) Gertie Maude (1937) Leave Her to Heaven (1940) Old Acquaintance (1940, NY 1941 and London with Edith Evans) Solitaire (adaptation, 1942) The Damask Cheek (with Lloyd Morris, 1942) The Voice of the Turtle (1943), which ran for three seasons in New York I Remember Mama (adaptation of Kathryn Forbes' family memoir, Mama's Bank Account, 1944) The Mermaids Singing (1945) The Druid Circle (1947) Make Way for Lucia (1948) Bell, Book and Candle (1950; filmed in 1958 starring James Stewart and Kim Novak) I Am a Camera (1951) from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories. New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for 1951–52 I've Got Sixpence (1952) Other work Van Druten directed the last nine productions of his own plays (see above). At the St. James Theatre, New York in March 1951 he directed