Outside Looking In is a 1925 Broadway three-act comedy written by Maxwell Anderson, produced by Kenneth Macgowan, Robert Edmond Jones and Eugene O'Neill and directed by Augustin Duncan.
Background
Cleon Throckmorton created the scenic design. The play was adapted from Jim Tully's autobiography Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography. The show ran for 113 performances from September 7, 1925 to November 1925 at the Greenwich Village Theatre and continuing from November 1925 to December 1925 at the 39th Street Theatre. This was Jimmy Cagney's legitimate stage debut playing the hobo Little Red.
Cast
Reginald Barlow as Baldy
Charles A. Bickford as Oklahoma Red
James Cagney as Little Red
Blythe Daly as Edna
David A. Leonard as Arkansas Snake
Harry D. Blakemore as Mose
Raphael Byrnes as Bill
Wallace House as Skelly
Sidney Machat as Ukie
Barry Macollum as Hopper
James Martin as Rubin
Richard Sullivan as Blind Sims
References
Further reading
Tully, Jim (1924) Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography (AK Press)