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What Broadway play marked Sidney Lumet’s Broadway debut in 1935?

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Sidney Lumet in a tuxedo holds his Honorary Academy Award and smiles backstage at the 77th Annual Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background. — Sidney Lumet American director Sidney Lumet after receiving an Academy Award for lifetime achievement, 2005.

Sidney Lumet’s Broadway debut in 1935 was in the production of Sidney Kingsley’s Dead End.1