BRADY, WILLIAM A. Producer of melodramas, motion picture producer, and boxing promoter; b. San Francisco, California, ; d. New York, New York, .
Producer William A. Brady is perhaps best remembered as a presenter of melodramatic plays like Trilby and Barrie’s Alice Sit-By-the-Fire . He always mounted his productions with the utmost taste, regardless of the cost, featuring performers under his management such as Helen Hayes , ...