Magyar Melody
- Summary
- 1939 BBC live broadcast from the Her Majesty’s Theatre of the musical romance Magyar Melody which was ‘televised in its entirety’ and billed in Radio Times as ‘the longest West-End production ever shown to viewers’.
- Theatre play
- Magyar Melody by Eric Maschwitz and Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Monday 27 March 1939
- Time
- 8.15-11.10pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- William Mollison
- Playwright
- Guy Bolton
- Playwright
- Eric Maschwitz
- Playwright
- Fred Thompson
- Music
- Bernard Grun
- Music
- George Posford
- Lyrics
- Eric Maschwitz
- Lyrics
- Harold Purcell
- Orchestra Directed by
- Walford Hyden
- Dances Arranged by
- Joan Davis
- Dances Arranged by
- Cleo Nordi
- Dancer
- Betty Bucknell
- Dancer
- Pierre
- Cast
Anne Allan Susan Townsend Lawrence Anderson Duke of Firth Stella Arbenina The Empress Elizabeth Sara Fischer Jimmy Godden Bardos Binnie Hale Roszi Belvary Maggie Jarvis Peasant Girl Arthur Margetson Count Ferenc Jimmy Miller Istvan Leo Morest The Bosniak Peter Mosley Captain Szermay Isobel Ohmead Flora, Lady Herriot Jeanne Planas Red Rowna Barbara Spicer Mrs Townsend Roger Treville Michael Herriot Jerry Verno Jarvis Betty Warren Julika Ivor Watt Robins Alan Bourne Webb Major Lonay Josephine Yorke
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from theatre
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- Hungary, as theme or setting; musical
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 24 March 1939 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and photograph, p. 12
- Title
- Television: Theatre or Studio? (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Grace Wyndham Goldie (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 6 April 1939, p. 755
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