The Yellow Ticket (play)


The Yellow Ticket is a 1914 Broadway play by dramatist Michael Morton, which premiered at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre in Manhattan on January 20, 1914.

Plot

Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, is forced to pretend to be a prostitute to obtain a prostitute's passport in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill. When she arrives in St. Petersburg, she learns that her father has been killed. She encounters a young journalist and tells him about injustices the government has kept him from learning about.

Original cast

In other media

Film

The Yellow Passport, a 1916 silent film drama starring Clara Kimball Young as Sonia Sokoloff and Edwin August as Adolph RosenheimerThe Yellow Ticket, a 1918 silent film starring Fannie Ward as Anna Mirrel, and Milton Sills as Julian RolfeThe Yellow Ticket, a 1931 pre-Code American drama film starring Elissa Landi as Marya Kalish and Laurence Olivier as Julian Rolfe.