On 6 October 1948, Summer and Smoke received its first performance at the Music Box Theatre, New York City, in a production staged by Margo Jones and designed by Jo Mielziner with Tod Andrews, Margaret Phillips, Monica Boyar, and Anne Jackson. The play ran for 102 performances.
In 1952, Geraldine Page played the lead role in a revival directed by José Quintero at the newly founded Circle in the Square Theatre in downtown New York. Her legendary performance is credited with the beginning of the Off-Broadway movement, putting both Page and Quintero on the map and vindicating the play itself. Page starred in an hour-long adaptation of the play on the radio series Best Plays in 1953 opposite Richard Kile. She would also to portray Alma Winemiller in the 1961 film version opposite Laurence Harvey earning an Academy Award nomination (as would Una Merkel playing her mother).
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