The Yellow Ticket is a 1914 Broadway play by dramatist Michael Morton, which premiered at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre in Manhattan on January 20, 1914.
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Plot
Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, is forced to pretend to be a prostitute to obtain a prostitute's passport (a "yellow ticket") in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill. When she arrives in St. Petersburg, she learns that her father has been killed. She encounters a young journalist and tells him about injustices the government has kept him from learning about.
Original cast
John Barrymore as Julian Rolfe
Florence Reed as Anna Mirrel, a.k.a. Marya Varenka
Emmett Corrigan as Monsieur Zoubatoff
A. C. P. Evans as Vassellevitch
Macey Harlam as Petrov Paviak
Elaine Inescort as Marjory Seaton
Julian L'Estrange as Count Nikolai Rostov
Harry Lillford as Boglosky
John B. Mason as Baron Stepan Audrey
David Torrence as John Seaton
Michael Wilens as Peter
In other media
Film
The Yellow Passport, a 1916 silent film drama starring Clara Kimball Young as Sonia Sokoloff and Edwin August as Adolph Rosenheimer
The Yellow Ticket, a 1918 silent film starring Fannie Ward as Anna Mirrel, and Milton Sills as Julian Rolfe
The Yellow Ticket, a 1931 pre-Code American drama film starring Elissa Landi as Marya Kalish and Laurence Olivier as Julian Rolfe.