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Dear Miss Phoebe
''Dear Miss Phoebe'' is a musical with a book by Christopher Hassall and music by Harry Parr-Davies. It is based on the play '' Quality Street'' by J.M. Barrie. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham before transferring to the Phoenix Theatre in London's West End, where it ran for 283 performances between 13 October 1950 and 16 June 1951. The original London cast included Carol Raye, Peter Graves, Olga Lindo, Moya Nugent, Gretchen Franklin and Noel Dyson Elsie Noël Dyson (23 December 1916 – 29 June 1995) was an English character actress Dyson played a number of roles in theatre, television and films (including in telemovies) but is best remembered as a versatile character actress in TV seri .... The song "I Leave My Heart in an English Garden" from it is particularly well-known. References Bibliography * Wearing, J. P. ''The London Stage 1950-1959: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 1950 musicals British m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Hassall
Christopher Vernon Hassall (24 March 1912 – 25 April 1963) was an English actor, dramatist, librettist, lyricist and poet, who found his greatest fame in a memorable musical partnership with the actor and composer Ivor Novello after working together in the same touring company. He was also a noted biographer of Rupert Brooke (1964, Faber and Faber) and Edward Marsh (1958, James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1959). Biography Hassall was born in London and educated at St Michael's College, Tenbury, Brighton College and Wadham College, Oxford. He was the son of the illustrator John Hassall and brother of Joan Hassall, who engraved the title page of his book of poetry, ''Devil's Dyke'', published in 1936. Hassall married the actress Eve Lynett, with whom he had a son and a daughter, the actress Imogen Hassall. Hassall was an experienced actor serving as Ivor Novello's understudy in a minor London drama when Novello invited him to provide the lyrics for a new musical. Their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves
Peter George Wellesley Graves, 8th Baron Graves (21 October 1911 – 6 June 1994) was an English actor. Born in London, Graves was the son of Henry Algernon Claude Graves, 7th Baron Graves. Admiral Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves, was his great-great-great-grandfather. He was educated at Harrow School. Biography Known during his acting career as Peter Graves, he specialised in light comedies and musicals, often cast as dapper young men about town. His career peaked in the mid-to-late 1940s, beginning with the films of director/writer Val Guest, including ''Miss London Ltd.'' (1943) and '' Bees in Paradise'' (1944), opposite Arthur Askey; and ''Give Us the Moon'' (1944) and ''I'll Be Your Sweetheart'' (1945), opposite Margaret Lockwood. Other roles included the lead in '' Spring Song'' (1946), and George IV in both ''The Laughing Lady'' (1946) and ''Mrs. Fitzherbert'' (1947). He also appeared in a number of films by Herbert Wilcox, such as the popular musicals ''Spring in Park ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Musicals
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1950 Musicals
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Noel Dyson
Elsie Noël Dyson (23 December 1916 – 29 June 1995) was an English character actress Dyson played a number of roles in theatre, television and films (including in telemovies) but is best remembered as a versatile character actress in TV serials who became a familiar face to British viewers in a career spanning almost 50 years from 1949 until her death. Dyson's best remembered roles are as matriarch Ida Barlow, one of the original characters in the long-running soap opera '' Coronation Street'' (1960–61), and Nanny in the sitcom ''Father, Dear Father'' (1968–73). Early life and career Dyson was born into a wealthy Manchester family (she was given the middle name Noel because she was born two days before Christmas), and was educated at the prestigious Roedean School in Brighton. Following a period at a finishing school in Paris, she returned to England and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from which she graduated in 1938. She initially performed in repertor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretchen Franklin
Gretchen Franklin (7 July 1911 – 11 July 2005) was an English actress and dancer with a career in show business spanning over 70 years. She was born in Covent Garden, Central London. She played Ethel Skinner in the long-running BBC 1 soap opera ''EastEnders'' on a regular basis from 1985 until 1988. After this she returned to the show intermittently. These appearances became briefer and more widely spaced. Her final appearance was in 2000, when her character was killed off. Early life Gretchen Franklin was born into a theatrical family, the only child of her parents Gordon and Violet Franklin. Her father had a song-and-dance act, while her grandfather was a well-known music-hall entertainer at the turn of the 20th century. Her younger cousin was the comedian Clive Dunn (1920-2012). She entered show business as a teenager, making her début as a pantomime chorus girl in Bournemouth. In 1929, she took dancing lessons at the ''Theatre Girls Club'' in Soho in London's West End ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moya Nugent
Moya Nugent (27 March 1901 – 26 January 1954) was a British actress and singer. She made a few broadcasts and three silent films but was chiefly known as a stage performer, and was particularly associated with the works of Noël Coward, appearing in twelve of his plays and two of his revues. Before that, she appeared early in her career in ''Peter Pan'', and was cast in other children's plays and pantomimes. She was in the West End casts of revues by Cole Porter and others, and in musical comedies such as '' Lilac Time''. Her last stage role was in 1950; she died suddenly in 1954, aged 52. Life and career Nugent was born in Dublin. At the age of ten she made her first appearance on the stage, at the Playhouse Theatre, London on 21 September 1911, as Meenie in ''Rip Van Winkle''.Parker, pp. 1818–1819 Later that year she played the Baby Mermaid and Liza in ''Peter Pan'' at the Duke of York's Theatre, repeating the roles in the three succeeding annual revivals of the play. Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Lindo
Olga Lindo (13 July 1899 – 7 May 1968) was an English actress. She was the daughter of Frank Lindo, a well-known actor, manager and author. She made her stage debut at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 26 December 1913. She later joined her father's touring company in a range of roles. For Basil Dean she appeared in ''R.U.R'' in 1923, and in 1925 she gave what ''The Times'' described as a formidable performance as Sadie Thompson in Maugham's ''Rain'' at the Garrick Theatre. She toured in South Africa in 1930 and 1934 in a variety of parts. Her repertoire ranged from the classics to farce. In 1935 she played Abigail Hill in Norman Ginsbury's historical work ''Viceroy Sarah''. She also acted in films. Partial filmography * '' The Shadow Between'' (1931) - Nell Baker * ''Royal Cavalcade'' (1935) - Tourist * ''The Case of Gabriel Perry'' (1935) - Mrs. Perry * '' Dark World'' (1935) - Eleanor * ''The Last Journey'' (1936) - Mrs. Holt * '' A Romance in Flanders'' (1937) - Madame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Raye
Carol Raye (17 January 1923 – 18 June 2022 as Kathleen Mary Corkrey and also billed as Carole Raye) was a British-born Australian actress of film, television, radio, theatre and revue, comedian, singer, dancer, and radio and television producer and director, as well as a TV network assistant and media personality. Raye was one of the first female executives in Australia, at a time when the industry was dominated by male counterparts. She was known for her career, spanning some seven decades from the late 1930s, firstly as a film star and theatre performer in the United Kingdom in which she would star, and often dance and sing, in such movies as ''Song of Romance'', '' Strawberry Roan'' and ''Waltz Time'', after which she briefly worked in Kenya, before immigrating to Australia, where she became notable for her small screen roles. Raye was best known as the producer and original star of the iconic TV satire ''The Mavis Bramston Show'' alongside Gordon Chater and Barry Crey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Parr-Davies
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West End Theatre
West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.Christopher Innes, "West End" in ''The Cambridge Guide to Theatre'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 1194–1195, Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. Seeing a West End show is a common tourist activity in London. Famous screen actors, British and international alike, frequently appear on the London stage. There are a total of 39 theatres in the West End, with the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, opened in May 1663, the oldest theatre in London. The Savoy Theatre – built as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan – was entirely lit by electricity in 1881. Opening in October 2022, @sohoplace is the first new West End theatre in 50 years. The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) announced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoenix Theatre, London
The Phoenix Theatre is a West End theatre in the London Borough of Camden, located in Charing Cross Road (on the corner of Flitcroft Street). The entrances are on Phoenix Street and Charing Cross Road. The Phoenix Theatre was built on the site of a former factory and then music hall Alcazar before. Description Built for Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein, the theatre was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Bertie Crewe and Cecil Massey. It has a restrained neoclassical exterior, but an interior designed in an Italianate style by director and designer Theodore Komisarjevsky. Vladimir Polunin copied works by Tintoretto, Titian, Pinturicchio, and Giorgione. It has a safety curtain that holds Jacopo del Sellaio's ''The Triumph of Love''. There are golden engravings in the auditorium, and red seats, carpets and curtains. This look is based on traditional Italian theatres. There are decorated ceilings and sculpted wooden doors throughout the building. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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