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Red Peppers (TV Play)
''Red Peppers'' is a 1962 Australian TV play based on the play ''Red Peppers''. It aired with the play ''Family Album''. Each play went for half an hour. James Upshaw produced. They were broadcast on Wednesday July 25, 1962 at 8.30 p.m. on ABM 2. ''Red Peppers'' a telerecording was short first and the live production ''Family Album'' followed. It was the first time Noel Coward had been adapted for Australian television, mostly because "it was hard to get the rights," according to Upshaw. Cast ''Red Peppers'' *Lorrae Desmond as Lily *Colin Croft as George *Neva Carr Glyn *Murray Foy *Henry Gilbert *Brigid Lenihan ''Family Album'' *Lorrae Desmond as Jane Featherways *Colin Croft as Jasper Featherways Production It was Desmond's debut in a straight stage production and followed airing of her own variety show, ''The Lorrae Desmond Show ''The Lorrae Desmond Show'' was an early black and white, Australian television music and variety show, produced by James Upshaw which aired fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noël Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what ''Time'' magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise"."Noel Coward at 70" ''Time'', 26 December 1969, p. 46 Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage début at the age of eleven. As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would be set. Coward achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards. Many of his works, such as '' |
James Upshaw
James Upshaw, an Australian producer and director, best known for his work in TV in the 1960s including early variety show ''The Lorrae Desmond Show'', which garnered its hostess Lorrae Desmond as the fist female recipient of the '' Gold Logie Award'' Select Credits *'' Hit Parade'' (1957) (TV series) *''Bolshoi Ballet'' (1959) *''Make Ours Music'' (1959) (TV variety show) *'' The Scent of Fear'' (1960) (TV movie) *''The Lorrae Desmond Show'' (1960) (TV series) *'' The Big Client'' (1961) (TV movie) *''Red Peppers'' (1961) (TV documentary) *'' The Red Moore Show'' (1961) (TV movie) *''Don't Listen Ladies'' (1963) (TV movie) *''Four for the Show'' (1963) (TV variety series) *Spanish dance theatre special (1963) *'' The Gordon Boyd Show'' (1964) (TV series) *'' The Four-Poster'' (1964) (TV movie) *'' On Stage'' (1964) (TV movie) *'' The Big Killing'' (1965) (TV movie) *'' Off the Peg'' (1965) (TV Series) *''Petrushka'' (1966) (TV ballet) *''Three Cornered Hat'' (1966) (ballet) Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Peppers
''Red Peppers'', described as "an interlude with music", is a short comic play in two scenes by Noël Coward. It is one of ten short plays that make up '' Tonight at 8.30'', a cycle written to be performed in groups of three plays across three evenings. The original production, starring Coward and Gertrude Lawrence played in a pre-London tour, and then the West End, and finally New York, in 1935–1937. ''Red Peppers'' has been revived periodically and has been adapted for the cinema and television. The play depicts a second-rate music hall double act, a husband and wife team, who perform two musical numbers, in between which they bicker in their dressing room and quarrel with colleagues. Background In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Coward wrote a succession of hits, ranging from the operetta '' Bitter Sweet'' (1929) and the epic ''Cavalcade'' (1931), requiring a large cast, gargantuan sets and a complex hydraulic stage, to the intimate comedies ''Private Lives'' (1930), in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorrae Desmond
Lorrae Desmond (2 October 1929 – 23 May 2021) born as Beryl Hunt, was an Australian Gold Logie-award-winning singer, recording artist, radio and television presenter, character actor, and playwright, with a career that spanned over 55 years both locally and the United Kingdom. She started her career in England, in the vein of entertainer Cicely Courtneidge. She carved out a career as a variety performer, as a singer and radio/television presenter, primarily at the BBC, where she had her own shows during the years of World War II. Returning to Australia she became a popular presenter and remains best known to early local television audiences as hostess of the musical variety program ''The Lorrae Desmond Show'' from 1960 until 1964, while as a variety entertainer and vocalist she made numerous cabaret and TV appearances including ''In Melbourne Tonight'', ''The Graham Kennedy Show'', '' The Kamahl Show'', ''The Ted Hamilton Show'' and appeared on ''Parkinson in Australia'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neva Carr Glyn
Neva Carr Glyn or Neva Carr Glynn (born Neva Josephine Mary Carr Glyn, 10 May 1908 – 10 August 1975) was an Australian stage, film and radio actress born in Melbourne to Arthur Benjamin Carr Glyn (died 16 January 1923), a humorous baritone and stage manager born in Ireland, and Marie Carr Glyn (late Mola), née Marie Dunoon Senior (10 June 1874 – 24 December 1953), an actress with the stage name "Marie Avis".Lane, Richard ''The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama'' Melbourne University Press 1994 She had one half-sister Gwendoline Arnold O'Neill and two half-brothers Sacheverill Arnold Mola and Rupert Arnold Mola. She was named "Neva" after a great-aunt, who was a contralto of some quality. Both spellings of her surname appear in print roughly equally and apparently arbitrarily. Early career Neva was born while her parents were with the Fred Niblo company touring the J. C. Williamson circuit. Her theatrical debut was four months later, in New Zealand, when Fred Niblo carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lorrae Desmond Show
''The Lorrae Desmond Show'' was an early black and white, Australian television music and variety show, produced by James Upshaw which aired from 1960 to 1964 on the ABC hosted by singer and entertainer Lorrae Desmond, later best known for her role as Shirley Gilroy in soap opera/serial ''A Country Practice'', who won the Gold Logie for the program. ''The Lorrae Desmond Show'' was a similar to ''The Dinah Shore Show'' in the US, with emphasis on live performances and dance numbers. The final episode aired on 27 April 1964. Over 20 episodes of the series are held by the National Film and Sound Archive Desmond at the time had been described as a talent in the vein of a young Cicely Courtneidge. Cast Cast: * The Channel 2 singers * Jim Gussey and the ABC dance band * John Lasen and the Squires * Colin Croft * Michael Cole * Ted Hamilton Edward Leslie "Ted" Hamilton ( OAM) (born 1937), is an Australian singer, composer, playwright, entrepreneur, and actor. He is known for pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Television Plays
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