and Jubilee the next year, the latter of which ran 169 performances. These were succeeded in 1936 by the ballet-themed On Your Toes, as well as Leslie Howard's revival of Shakespeare's Hamlet, which flopped after 39 performances. The Shuberts' operetta Frederika opened in 1937, as did Dietz and Schwartz's Between the Devil later the same year; both were coldly received. More successful were Cole Porter's Leave It to Me! in 1938, where Mary Martin made her Broadway debut, and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's collaboration for Too Many Girls in 1939. Alfred J. Callahan bought the Imperial in 1940 after the Imperial Theatre Corporation defaulted on a mortgage, and Callahan sold the theater the next year to the Dorsar Corporation. The Imperial consistently hosted popular musical productions during the 1940s. The first was Ryskind and Irving Berlin's Louisiana Purchase in 1940, which had 444 performances. Next was Herbert and Dorothy Fields's 1941 musical Let's Face It!, with a score by Porter, which ran for 547 performances. A transfer of the long-running Rosalinda from the 44th Street Theatre followed in 1943, and the Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash musical One Touch of Venus premiered the same year with Mary Martin. The Ziegfeld Follies of 1943 was also performed at the Imperial. The late 1940s saw the premieres of multiple hits, a trend that continued through the 1950s. The largest of those was the musical Annie Get Your Gun, featuring Ethel Merman with a score by Berlin, which opened in 1946 and ran 1,147 performances. The run of Annie Get Your Gun was suspended temporarily in 1946 after the weight of the musical's set caused one of the theater's beams to warp. The Imperial then hosted two shows in 1949: a transfer of Along Fifth Avenue, as well as a 308-performance run of Berlin and Robert E. Sherwood's Miss Liberty. In 1950, the Imperial hosted Peter Pan, featuring Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff with a score by Leonard Bernstein. Later that year, Merman appeared in Berlin's Call Me Madam, which had 644 performances. Wish You Were Here premiered in 1952, running 598 performances, with a set that included a fully functional swimming pool on the Imperial's stage. This was followed by John Murray Anderson's Almanac in 1953, one of Broadway's last large revues. The Imperial staged Silk Stockings in 1955, which was Cole Porter's last Broadway production. Next to be presented was