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Rookery Nook (1930 Film)
''Rookery Nook'' may refer to: * ''Rookery Nook'' (novel), a 1923 novel by Ben Travers * ''Rookery Nook'' (play), a 1926 play by Travers based on his own novel * ''Rookery Nook'' (film), a 1930 British film adaptation of the play * ''Rookery Nook'' (1953 TV drama), a 1953 British television production broadcast 'live' * ''Rookery Nook'' (1970 TV drama), a 1970 British television production {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rookery Nook (novel)
''Rookery Nook'' may refer to: * ''Rookery Nook'' (novel), a 1923 novel by Ben Travers Ben Travers (12 November 188618 December 1980) was an English writer. His output includes more than 20 plays, 30 screenplays, 5 novels, and 3 volumes of memoirs. He is best remembered for his long-running Aldwych farce, series of farces first ... * ''Rookery Nook'' (play), a 1926 play by Travers based on his own novel * ''Rookery Nook'' (film), a 1930 British film adaptation of the play * ''Rookery Nook'' (1953 TV drama), a 1953 British television production broadcast 'live' * ''Rookery Nook'' (1970 TV drama), a 1970 British television production {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Travers
Ben Travers (12 November 188618 December 1980) was an English writer. His output includes more than 20 plays, 30 screenplays, 5 novels, and 3 volumes of memoirs. He is best remembered for his long-running Aldwych farce, series of farces first staged in the 1920s and 1930s at the Aldwych Theatre. Many of these were made into films and later television productions. After working for some years in his family's wholesale grocery business, which he detested, Travers was given a job by the publisher John Lane (publisher), John Lane in 1911. After service as a pilot in the First World War, he began to write novels and plays. He turned his 1921 novel, ''The Dippers'', into a play that was first produced in the West End theatre, West End in 1922. His big break came in 1925, when the actor-manager Tom Walls bought the performing rights to his play ''A Cuckoo in the Nest'', which ran for more than a year at the Aldwych. He followed this success with eight more farces for Walls and his te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rookery Nook (play)
''Rookery Nook'' is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers based on his own 1923 novel. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the third in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented by the actor-manager Tom Walls at the theatre between 1923 and 1933. Several of the actors formed a regular core cast for the Aldwych farces. The play depicts the complications that ensue when a young woman, dressed in pyjamas, seeks refuge from her bullying stepfather at a country house in the middle of the night. The play was first performed in 1926 at the Aldwych Theatre in London, the third of the Aldwych farces, and ran for 409 performances."Mr. Ralph Lynn", ''The Times'', 10 August 1962, p. 11 In 1930 Walls directed a filmed version of the play, with most of the same performers, and the piece has been revived and adapted as a musical. Background The actor-manager Tom Walls, initially together with Leslie Henson, produced the series of Aldwych farces, nearly all written by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rookery Nook (film)
''Rookery Nook'' is a 1930 film farce, directed by Tom Walls, with a script by Ben Travers. It is a screen adaptation of the original 1926 Aldwych farce of the same title. The film was known in the U.S. as ''One Embarrassing Night''. The film was very successful at the box office and led to a series of filmed farces. Synopsis Rhoda Marley seeks refuge overnight from a tyrannical stepfather in the house of Gerald Popkiss. He is alone there, as his wife is away; fearing a scandal he attempts to conceal Rhoda's presence from nosy domestic staff and his in-laws, with the help of his cousin Clive. Eventually all is explained, Gerald and his wife are reconciled, and Clive pairs off with Rhoda. Cast *Gerald Popkiss – Ralph Lynn* *Clive Popkiss – Tom Walls* *Rhoda Marley – Winifred Shotter* *Mrs Leverett – Mary Brough* *Harold Twine – Robertson Hare* *Gertrude Twine – Ethel Coleridge* *Putz – Griffith Humphreys* *Poppy Dickey – Doreen Bendix *Clara Popkiss – Margot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rookery Nook (1953 TV Drama)
''Rookery Nook'' was a 1953 British live television production of the comedy play by Ben Travers broadcast on 23 May 1953. Featuring in this version were Peter Cushing, David Stoll, and Lally Bowers. It was based on Travers' play '' Rookery Nook'', one of the Aldwych Farces, and is believed not to have been telerecorded as it was transmitted and is therefore lost. lostshows.com Cast * ... Poppy Dickie * ... Rhoda Marley * |