Wild Heather is a 1917 play by the British writer

Dorothy Brandon Dorothy Brandon was a British playwright active in the interwar years. Her greatest West End success was the 1923 medical drama '' The Outsider'' which was revived several times, and adapted into films on three occasions. An earlier hit was 191 ...

. A woman looking to marry has to choose between two very different men. After debuting at the Gaiety Theatre in

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in August 1917, it transferred for a West End run at the Strand Theatre lasting 79 performances between October 1917 and January 1918. The cast included

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and

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had one of his earliest roles in the production.

Film adaptation

In 1921, it was turned into a silent film ''

Wild Heather ''Wild Heather'' is a 1921 British drama film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Chrissie White, Gerald Ames, James Carew and George Dewhurst. It was based on the 1917 play ''Wild Heather'' by Dorothy Brandon. Cast *Chrissie White as "W ...

'' directed by

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.Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999, p.1017

References

1917 plays Plays by Dorothy Brandon British plays adapted into films West End plays {{1910s-play-stub