the first production of The King and I (1,246 performances). He also restaged this production at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, in London, October 1953 (946 performances). At the Theatre Royal, Brighton in November 1954 he staged a production of The Duchess and the Smugs. Van Druten wrote two autobiographies: The Way to the Present (1938) The Widening Circle: Personal Search, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1957) He also published two novels: a version of Young Woodley (1928), and The Vicarious Years in 1955. He also published a book on his work, Playwright at Work, just after the Second World War. Filmography The Careless Age, directed by John Griffith Wray (1929, based on the play Diversion) Young Woodley, directed by Thomas Bentley (1930, based on the play Young Woodley) New Morals for Old, directed by Charles Brabin (1932, based on the play After All) After Office Hours, directed by Thomas Bentley (1932, based on the play London Wall) If I Were Free, directed by Elliott Nugent (1933, based on the play Behold, We Live) One Night in Lisbon, directed by Edward H. Griffith (1941, based on the play There's Always Juliet) Old Acquaintance, directed by Vincent Sherman (1943, based on the play Old Acquaintance) The Voice of the Turtle, directed by Irving Rapper (1947, based on the play The Voice of the Turtle) I Remember Mama, directed by George Stevens (1948, based on the play I Remember Mama) I Am a Camera, directed by Henry Cornelius (1955, based on the play I Am a Camera) Bell, Book and Candle, directed by Richard Quine (1958, based on the play Bell, Book and Candle) Cabaret, directed by Bob Fosse (1972, based on the play I Am a Camera) Rich and Famous, directed by George Cukor (1981, based on the play Old Acquaintance) Screenwriter Unfaithful, directed by John Cromwell (1931) Night Must Fall, directed by Richard Thorpe (1937) Parnell, directed by John M. Stahl (1937) Raffles, directed by Sam Wood (1939) Lucky Partners, directed by Lewis Milestone (1940) My Life with Caroline, directed by Lewis Milestone (1941) Johnny Come Lately, directed by William K. Howard (1943) Gaslight, directed by George Cukor (1944) Sources Who's Who in the Theatre, Twelfth edition, ed John Parker, Pitman, London (1957) The Oxford Companion to the Theatre, ed Phyllis Hartnoll, Oxford (1985) The Oxford Companion to American Theatre, ed Gerald Bordman, Oxford (1992) References External links John Van