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The Little Woman
''The Little Woman'' is a 1961 Australian comedy TV play written by Patricia Hooker and broadcast on the ABC. It starred Sophie Stewart who had also been in the ABC's live play '' Fly by Night''. Plot In a plush suburb on Sydney's North Shore, Marjorie, a young bride arrives home to find a series of surprises in store for her: her husband Henry, a Sydney businessman, keeps his wives instead of divorcing him, and they live together in a state of bliss; the new bride is his sixth. The household is run by Vera, his first wife. The others are a beatnik, a secretary, a glamour girl and a cook. Cast *Sophie Stewart as Vera *Wendy Blacklock as Majorie *Moya O'Sullivan as Kay *Brigid Lenihan as a beatnik Estella *Janice Copeland as Vernoica *Valerie Hughes as Estella *Brian Anderson *Edward Hepple *Kerry Francis Background Hooker was working as a shorthand typist in a city office in 1959 when she wrote the story at home in the evenings. She wrote it as a stage play and it was included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Hooker
''Patricia Hooker'' (17 February 1933 – 2001) was an Australian writer who worked extensively in England. She wrote for TV, radio and the stage. She wrote ''The Golden Road'', the first play on British television that was both written by a woman and about a lesbian relationship. Biography She grew up in the town of Port Lincoln in South Australia and trained as a stenographer. She began writing in her spare time and her work began appearing in amateur theatres. She worked as a secretary at the Stevedoring Commission in Sydney and also as a court reporter. Hooker was working as a shorthand typist in a city office in 1959 when she wrote the story for ''The Little Woman'' at home in the evenings. She wrote it as a stage play and it was included in a night of one-act plays at the Genesian Theatre. To help it reach a wider audience, Patricia studied a book on TV technique and decided to revise the script as a TV play. The ABC produced it in 1961 by which time she was at the ABC as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Bain (director)
Bill Bain (18 December 1929 in Wauchope, New South Wales, Australia – 21 February 1982 in London, England) was an Australian television and film director. Biography Australia Bill Bain originally trained as a school teacher, but became a pioneer of Australian television after he joined the fledgling Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the 1950s. In Australia, he directed the country's first TV pantomime for Christmas in 1959. He also directed the TV plays '' Corinth House'' (1961) and ''Funnel Web'' (1962). Britain He left Australia in 1963 for Europe and directed numerous episodes of British television series, including ''Harpers West One'', ''Emerald Soup'', '' The Avengers'', ''Callan'', ''Redcap'', '' Upstairs Downstairs'', ''The Duchess of Duke Street'', '' Enemy at the Door'', ''The Brack Report'', and ''Armchair Theatre''. It was noteworthy that "For many, ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' and ''The Duchess of Duke Street'' typify excellence in British television dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Canberra Times
''The Canberra Times'' is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media. It was founded in 1926, and has changed ownership and format several times. History ''The Canberra Times'' was launched in 1926 by Thomas Shakespeare along with his oldest son Arthur Shakespeare and two younger sons Christopher and James. The newspaper's headquarters were originally located in the Civic retail precinct, in Cooyong Street and Mort Street, in blocks bought by Thomas Shakespeare in the first sale of Canberra leases in 1924. The newspaper's first issue was published on 3 September 1926. It was the second paper to be printed in the city, the first being ''The Federal Capital Pioneer''. Between September 1926 and February 1928, the newspaper was a weekly issue. The first daily issue was 28 February 1928. In June 1956, ''The Canberra Times'' converted from broadsheet to tabloid format. Arthur Shakespeare sold the paper to John Fairfax Lt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fly By Night (TV Play)
''Fly By Night'' is a 1962 Australian TV play broadcast on the ABC and filmed in London. Written expressly for television, it starred Sophie Stewart who was also in ''The Little Woman''. Plot In London near the Thames, Miss Tyrell, an elderly vagrant, meets a middle aged suburban housewife and her husband, Mr and Mrs Dexter, in a dockside cafe. Miss Tyrell prompts the Dexters to rebel against their life. Cast *Dorothy Dunckley as Miss Tyrell *Sophie Stewart as Mrs Dexter, suburban housewife * Michael Duffield as her husband, Mr Dexter *John Ewart as taxi driver *Stewart Ginn *Peter Morris *Lou Vernon as Seamus *James Elliott as seaman *Olive Walker *Nat Levison Production The play had originally been filmed for British TV in 1961. Reception The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' wrote that "sensitive acting from a small but extremely competent cast triumphed... over rudimentary camera techniques to produce one of the most absorbing plays to appear on Channel 2 for a very long time.... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigid Lenihan
Brigid Lenihan (1929–1970) was a New Zealand actor who worked extensively in Australia on stage and screen. She died in her sleep aged 41. Select TV Credits *'' The Face of Love'' (1954) *''The Little Woman'' (1961) *'' A Night Out'' (1961) *''Lola Montez'' (1962) *''Red Peppers'' (1962) *''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1962) *'' My Three Angels'' (1962) *''Jonah'' (1962) *'' The Right Thing'' (1963) *''The Hungry Ones'' (1963) *''The Mavis Bramston Show'' (1965) *'' Goodbye, Gloria, Hello!'' (1967) Select Theatre *''Six Characters in Search of an Author'' (1949) *''Boeing Boeing'' (1964) *''A Cat Among the Pigeons'' (1970) References External linksBrigid Lenihanat IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... New Zealand actresses 1929 births 1970 deaths {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Television Plays Broadcast On Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1960s)
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AustLit
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration between researchers and librarians from Australian universities, led by the University of Queensland (UQ), designed to comprehensively record the history of Australian literary and story-making cultures. AustLit is an encyclopaedia of Australian writers and writing. BlackWords is a landmark research project by and within AustLit that details the lives and work of Indigenous Australian authors, which includes Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers. History AustLit was founded in 2000, when several independent databases on a variety of themes related to literary studies was created from work done by research groups at eight universities. The first dataset comprised about 300,000 fairly simple biographical and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s Australian Television Plays
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