Designed the costumes for the original 1927 Broadway production of "Show Boat", as well as the 1932 revival (a virtual duplicate of the 1927 production).
John Harkrider designed, in collaboration with John Fulton, the famous art-deco Universal Pictures trademark used from 1936 to 1946 and occasionally revived in the 1970s (i.e., The Sting).
He designed the costumes for the original Broadway production of Kern and Hammerstein's "Music in the Air", in 1932.
Designed the costumes for the original 1928 Broadway production of the Eddie Cantor smash hit "Whoopee!"
Designed the costumes for the original Broadway production of Cole Porter's "Let's Face It".
Designed the costumes for the original Broadway production of "Rio Rita", the first production to ever play at the Ziegfeld Theatre. ("Show Boat" had originally been scheduled to open it, but the delay in having it ready enabled Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. to present "Rio Rita" first.)