She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night
- Summary
- 1939 BBC live studio production of Oliver Goldsmith’s comedy She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night.
- Theatre play
- She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night by Oliver Goldsmith [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 26 March 1939
- Time
- 9.05-10.35pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Desmond Davis
- Playwright
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Cast
Denys Blakelock Hastings Newton Blick Harvey Braban Sir Charles Marlow Renée de Vaux Mrs Hardcastle Lionel Dixon Maurice Harvey Mr Hardcastle James Hayter Tony Lumpkin Leueen MacGrath Miss Hardcastle Barbara Nixon Nancy O’Neil Miss Neville Eric Portman Young Marlow Christopher Steele
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Monday 3 April 1939.
- Notes
- The same cast performed a modern version of the play, written for television by Giles Playfair, on 16 and 24 April 1939.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 18th-century setting; class issues / differences; comedy
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 24 March 1939 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 12
- Title
- Today’s Home Programmes (Newspaper listing)
- Reference
- The Times, 26 March 1939, p. 26
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