Frank McHugh

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Frank McHugh (1898-1981)

Homestead, PA born son of actors made his stage debut with his family's McHugh Stock Company at age six. Joined the Marguerite Bryant Players at age seventeen, and found his way to Broadway about a decade later in 1925. McHugh spent the late '20s on Broadway and London stages, finding his breakthrough roles in Tenth Avenue (1927) and Florenz Ziegfeld's Show Girl (1929). According to a 1937 Warner B...