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John Craven will be remembered as the lad who dreamed of love and the moon atop a stepladder in the Broadway version of "Our Town" for a season and another on the road, while his father, Frank Craven, officiated as the genial Stage Manager and commentator of that play. Originally intending to be a surgeon, John was deflected by heredity to an assistant stage managership in "Babes in Arms." He had a busy career on Broadway and in film from the 1930s through the 1950s. 

He slipped into movies quietly, with a minor role in The Human Comedy (1943), but he played an orphaned young soldier with fine simplicity. There was a quality of entirely masculine sweetness in his face missing from the screen since Richard Barthelmess starred in the silents. Actually, John was hardly an unknown: Hollywood was strangely late in discovering him, as he played leads in Broadway plays for four years. The handicap of a famous father may have slowed his start, due to such comments as, "Oh yes - Frank Craven's' boy". His father, the veteran character actor, was responsible for John's first chance on the stage - and almost for the loss of that chance. Frank had just been given the lead in the play "Our Town". John stopped at the producer's office one day, looking for his father, and was offered the juvenile lead. Frank, who didn't want the totally inexperienced youngster to begin with such a tough job, almost caused John to lose the job, but young Craven overruled him and came through like a veteran. Frank Craven was selected for the lead in the film version of Our Town (1940), but John was not. The role went to a young William Holden instead, and the rest is Hollywood history. John was a fine actor who deserved more acclaim, and who warrants a closer look by film historians.

(January 24, 1939) He played George Gibbs in Thornton Wilder&#39;s play, &quot;Our Town,&quot; at the Selwyn Theatre in Chicago, Illinois with Frank Craven (stage manager); James Spottswood (Dr. Gibbs); Evelyn Varden (Mrs. Gibbs); Thomas W. Ross (Mr. Webb); Helen Carew (Mrs. Webb); Dorothy McGuire (Emily Webb); Patricia Roe (Rebecca Gibbs); Raymond Rose; Tom Fadden; Charles Wiley Jr.; Walter O. Hill; Milton Parsons; Dora Merande; E. Irving Locke; Billy Redfield; William Wadsworth; and Edward P. Goodnow in the cast.

(January 5, 1939) He acted in Thornton Wilder&#39;s play, &quot;Our Town,&quot; at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Frank Craven, Evelyn Varden, Helen Carew, James Spottswood, Raymond Roe, Tom Fadden, Patricia Roe, Charles Wiley Jr., Dorothy McGuire, Thomas W. Ross, Walter O. Hill, Alice Donaldson, Thomas Coley, Katharine Raht, Milton Parsons, William Roerick, Doro Merande, E. Irving Locke, Billy Redfield, William Wadsworth, and Edward P. Goodnow in the cast. Raymond Sovey was set designer. Helene Pons was costume designer. Jed Harris was producer and director.

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