{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox play | name =The Damask Cheek | image = File:The Damask Cheek.jpg | image_size = | caption = | writer = John Van Druten <br> Lloyd Morris | setting = | date of premiere = 9 October 1942 | original language = English | place =Plymouth Theatre, Boston | series = | subject = | genre = Comedy }} '''''The Damask Cheek''''' is a 1942 comedy play by the British writer John Van Druten in collaboration with Lloyd Morris.
It was first performed in Plymouth Theatre in Boston before a 93 performance Broadway run at the Playhouse Theatre. The cast featured Flora Robson, Celeste Holm and Zachary Scott with Van Druten himself directing.<ref>Davis p.78-79</ref>
In 1949 it began its first London run at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith running for 36 performances. The cast included Bill Travers, Jane Baxter, Iris Hoey and Claire Bloom.<ref>Wearing p.423-24</ref>
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==Bibliography== * Davis, Ronald L. ''Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad''. University Press of Mississippi, 2009. * Wearing, J.P. ''The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
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