Kenneth Webb

Kenneth Webb is most famous for the 1932 musical Gay Divorce, which he adapted with Samuel Hoffenstein from the show’s original book, written by Dwight Taylor. Starting in 1910, Kenneth Webb was a sketch writer and director for vaudeville productions. He was soon a working theater writer, who wrote the books for The Illustrators’ Show and Who Cares?, and he was the playwright of five other productions in the 1920s and 1930s. Webb was also the director for Room of Dreams when it premiered on Broadway in 1930. Kenneth Webb directed many silent films in the 1920s such as The Great Adventure and Fair Lady. One of Webb’s main collaborators for movies was his brother, Roy Webb, who was also a composer and a film director. Kenneth Webb married on September 20, 1920, to Lorraine Frost, a silent film actress.