''The First Mrs. Fraser'' is a 1929 play by the Irish writer

St. John Ervine St John Greer Ervine (28 December 1883 – 24 January 1971) was an Irish biographer, novelist, critic, dramatist, and theatre manager. He was the most prominent Ulster writer of the early twentieth century and a major Irish dramatist whose work in ...

. After his second wife leaves him for somebody else, a man returns to his true love - his first wife. The play has been revived a number of times and is one of Ervine's best-known works.

Adaptations

In 1932 the play was turned into a British film '' The First Mrs. Fraser'' directed by Sinclair Hill.Oakley p.112 It was followed by a 1950 television film and a 1955 German film which drew heavily on the plot.

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Bibliography

Oakley, Charles Allen. ''Where We Came In: Seventy Years of the British Film Industry''. Routledge, 2013. 1929 plays British plays adapted into films Plays set in England {{1920s-play-stub