Sun Up
- Summary
- 1939 BBC studio production of Lula Wollmer’s American folk drama Sun Up, which was Sybil Thorndike’s television debut.
- Theatre play
- Sun Up by Lula Wollmer (1898-1955) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Saturday 14 May 1949
- Time
- 9.05-10.30pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
- Theatre company
- [choose none of these]
Credits
- Producer
- George More O’Ferrall (1907-1982)
- Playwright
- Lula Wollmer (1898-1955)
- Cast
Finlay Currie Pap Todd Harry Hutchinson Preacher Betty Jardine Emmy André Morell Rufe Cagle Anthony Quayle Stranger Sybil Thorndike Widow Cagle Edmund Willard Sheriff Weeks
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Monday 22 May 1939.
- Notes
- A photograph in the Radio Times shows Sybil Thorndike with producer George More O’Ferrall. The caption notes that this production is Sybil Thorndike’s television debut.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- America, as theme or setting; American drama; First World War, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 12 May 1939 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and photograph on p. 14
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