Active Years: 1898 - 1974
Position: One of the leading actresses of the United States.
Career Highlights: Little Women(1919), Will Shakespeare (1923),Candida (1924), The Barretts of Wimpole  Street (1931).
Career Totals: As with all actors, too many to count, but enough roles were played by her that one would have done well to obtain one nickle per performance.
Scouting [...]

Active Years: 1860 - 1904
Position: Russian Dramatist.
Career Highlights: Uncle Vanya(1899), Three Sisters (1901),The Cherry Orchard (1904). The Seagull (1909 - a revival of an earlier production that failed miserably).
Career Totals: Chekov died at the height of his career with only 9 plays noted.
Scouting Report: Graduated from Moscow University in 1884 as a physician. Wrote several [...]

Active Years: 1890 to 1937.
Position: The biggest star/discovery to emerge from the David Belasco stable of beautiful, talented Broadway actresses he actively promoted.
Career Highlights: Zaza; Dubarry; The Ugly Duckling; Heart of Maryland.
Career Totals: A “natural” and a beauty, she was one of the first box office names on Broadway, and famous for letting her lovely [...]

Active Years: 1925 -
Position: Actor.
Career Highlights: Julius Caesar (1956), The Blacks (1961), King Lear (1964).
Career Totals: 11 plus roles in theater, countless performances.
Scouting Report: Brown was born in New Jersey and was quite successful at a variety of occupations when he made his debut as an actor in Julius Caesar (1956) at the New York [...]

Active Years: 1891 - 1951
Position: Actress, singer.
Career Highlights: Ziegfeld’s Follies
Career Totals: Over 15 stage productions and many well-known songs.
Scouting Report: Born Fanny Borach in New York, Ms. Brice was best known for her three main characterizations: a raucous Jewish-accented clown, a heart-tearing ballad singer, and “Baby Snooks,” which brought her fame. Ms. Brice started her [...]

Active Years: 1898 - 1936
Position: German dramatist, poet, director, and proclaimed pacifist.
Career Highlights: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera - 1928 adaptation of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera), Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Mother Courage and her Children - 1949).
Career Totals: Over 8 plays produced.
Scouting Report: Contributed poems to the local newspaper by the age of [...]

Active Years: 1924 -
Position: American actor of the stage and screen.
Career Highlights: A Streetcar Named Desire (1947).
Career Totals: Well, at least 300 or more performances in A Streetcar Named Desire.
Scouting Report: Brando is a graduate of the New York Actor’s  Studio, which is well known for its “method”`acting. He made his stage debut in 1943. [...]

Active Years: 1844 - 1923
Position: The greatest actress of France (some would say the world) in the 19th century.
Career Highlights: Hamlet (the TITLE Role), Fedora (after which the hat was named) Lady Macbeth, Phaedre, La Dame Aux Camilias (otherwise known as Camille) and La Tosca (which was written for her and then borrowed by Puccini [...]

Active Years: 1871 to 1931
Position: Legendary (in his own time) Playwright-Director-Producer, known as the greatest showman since Barnum.
Career Highlights: Girl of the Golden West; The Return of Peter Grim; Zaza; Madame Butterfly.
Career Totals: A producer at age twenty-one, he presented over 375 plays in his lifetime, and wrote (or co-wrote) over 150 of them.
Scouting Report: [...]

Active Years: 1906 - 1989
Position: Novelist and one of the twentieth century’s greatest playwrights.
Career Highlights:Murphy (1938), Watt (1942-44), Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable (1947-1949 A Trilogy), Waiting for Godot (1952). Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1969.
Career Totals: More than 50 literary works.
Scouting Report: Irish by birth and French by choice, Samuel Beckett was well [...]