Claudia (play)
Claudia, a story about a naive young wife's maturing, is a 1941 play by Rose Franken.[1]
Broadway play
Claudia, based on Franken's 1939 novel, premiered as a play on Broadway in 1941. The play was written and directed by Rose Franken and produced by John Golden. The show starred Dorothy McGuire as Claudia Naughton and Donald Cook as David Naughton. When it closed in 1943, it had run for a total of 722 performances.
Books
Franken's Claudia: The Story of a Marriage was released in 1939, the first in a series of books which would be followed by Another Claudia (1943), Young Claudia (1946), The Marriage of Claudia (1948), From Claudia to David (1949), two 1952 novels, and a 1958 omnibus edition called The Complete Book of Claudia. The Claudia series explored the challenges and delights of family relationships that foster personal growth.
Films
Claudia was first made into a film, Claudia (1943), followed by Claudia and David in 1946.
Television
In January 1953, NBC-TV premiered a series based on Claudia: The Story of a Marriage, lasting three months.