''Secrets'' is a 1922 play by
Rudolf Besier
Rudolf Wilhelm Besier (2 July 1878 – 16 June 1942) was a Dutch/English dramatist and translator best known for his play ''The Barretts of Wimpole Street'' (1930). He worked with H. G. Wells, Hugh Walpole and May Edginton on dramatisations.
Ear ...
and
May Edginton
May Edginton (originally Helen Marion Edginton, 20 December 1883 – 17 June 1957) was an English writer who had over 50 popular novels published in London. She also wrote plays, collaborating with Rudolf Besier on two of them.Virginia Blain, Pat ...
.
The play first opened in London at the
Comedy Theatre
The Harold Pinter Theatre, known as the Comedy Theatre until 2011, on September 7, 1922, starring
Fay Compton
Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie, (; 18 September 1894 – 12 December 1978), known professionally as Fay Compton, was an English actress. She appeared in several films, and made many broadcasts, but was best known for her stage per ...
and
Leon Quartermaine
Leon Quartermaine (24 September 1876 – 25 June 1967) was a British actor whose stage career, in Britain and the United States, extended from the early 1900s to the 1950s.
He was born in Richmond, London, and educated at the Whitgift School i ...
.
[(13 August 1922)]
The London Stage
''The New York Times
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''[(8 October 1922)]
London Notes
''The New York Times
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''Secrets'' opened in New York at the
Fulton Theatre
The Fulton Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 210 West 46th Street in Manhattan, New York City, that was opened in 1911. It was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre in 1955. The theatre was demolished in 1982. Since the former Little Theatre be ...
on December 25, 1922, and ran through May 1923, for 168 performances.
[Corbin, John (26 December 1922)]
The Play
''The New York Times
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''[Bordman, Gerald]
American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama 1914-1930
p. 198 (1995)("The play's five-month run silenced pundits who sneered that Broadway would never accept so gentle, undramatic an evening.")
The play was also adapted for films released in
1924 and
1933.
London cast (partial)
Produced by
John Eugene Vedrenne
John Eugene Vedrenne (July 13, 1867-February 12, 1930), often known as J. E. Vedrenne, was a West End theatre producer who co-managed the Savoy Theatre with Harley Granville-Barker, and then (from 1904 to 1907, also with Granville-Barker) the Ro ...
*
Fay Compton
Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie, (; 18 September 1894 – 12 December 1978), known professionally as Fay Compton, was an English actress. She appeared in several films, and made many broadcasts, but was best known for her stage per ...
as Lady Carlton
*Doris Mansell as Lady Lessington
*
Margaret Scudamore
Margaret Scudamore (13 November 1881 – 5 October 1958) was an English theatre and film actress who began in '' ingenue'' roles before achieving a prolonged career in stage and screen support roles. She and her first husband, Roy Redgrave ...
as Mrs. Marlowe
*
Hubert Harben
Leonard Hubert S Harben (12 July 1878 – 24 August 1941) was an English stage and film actor. He was married to the actress Mary Jerrold and father of celebrity chef Philip Harben.
Selected filmography
* '' Mr. Pim Passes By'' (1921)
* ''Every ...
as William Marlowe
*Bobbie Andrews as John Carlton
Broadway cast (partial)
Directed by Sam Forrest and produced by
Sam H. Harris
*
Margaret Lawrence as Lady Carlton
*Barbara Allen as Lady Lessington
*Mrs. Edmund Gurney as Mrs. Marlowe
*Orlando Daly as William Marlowe
*Tom Nesbit as John Carlton
*Allan Jenkins as Briggs
*
Beatrice Kay
Beatrice Kay (April 21, 1907– November 8, 1986) was an American singer, vaudevillian, music hall performer, and stage and film actress.
Background
Born in New York City as Hannah Beatrice Kuper, Kay performed as Honey Kuper and Honey Day fo ...
as Blanche
References
External links
* {{IBDB show, 7833, Secrets
1922 plays
Plays by Rudolf Besier
West End plays