Jean Dalrymple

Jean Van Kirk Dalrymple (September 2, 1902 – November 15, 1998 ) was an American theater producer, manager, publicist, and playwright. She was instrumental in the founding of New York City Center, and is best known for her productions there.

Biography Dalrymple was born in Morristown, New Jersey on September 2, 1902 After touring the United States acting and writing vaudeville sketches, she and Dan wrote Just a Pal. For another sketch The Woman Pays, Jean and Dan hired Archibald Leach, a handsome young man with a British accent but no acting experience, whom they saw walking on stilts at Coney Island; he would later be known as Cary Grant. Careers and Opportunities in the Theatre (1969), From The Last Row: A personal account of the first twenty-five years of the New York City Center of Music and Drama and Jean Dalrymple's Pinafore Farm Cookbook (1972).

Personal life In 1932, Dalrymple married New York Sun theater critic Ward Morehouse. That marriage ended in divorce. In 1951, she married Major General Philip De Witt Ginder. She had no children and left no immediate survivors.

She is buried at West Point Cemetery, next to her second husband.