Learning on ScreenHer Excellency
- Summary
- 1949 BBC live studio production of the musical play Her Excellency by Archie Menzies and Max Kester. A television version of the original stage production produced prior to a transfer from the Hippodrome to the Saville Theatre, London, presented by arrangement with Jack Hulbert, Val Parnell and Bernard Delfont.
- Theatre play
- Her Excellency by Archie Menzies and Max Kester [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 20 September 1949
- Time
- 9.15-10.30pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Jack [John Norman] Hulbert (1892-1978)
- Producer in Charge
- Kenneth Milne Buckley
- Adapted for Television by
- Jack [John Norman] Hulbert (1892-1978)
- Book by
- Max Kester
- Book by
- Archie Menzies
- Music
- Harry Parr-Davies
- Music
- Manning Sherwin
- Orchestra Directed by
- Robert Probst
- Sets / Settings
- Stephen Bundy
- Sets / Settings
- Charles Reading
- Costumes
- Berkeley Sutcliffe
- Dances Arranged by
- Jack [John Norman] Hulbert (1892-1978)
- Dances Arranged by
- Bert Stimmel
- Dancer
- George Baron
- Dancer
- Pat Britten
- Dancer
- Joan Charlton
- Dancer
- Hazel Coward
- Dancer
- Billy Dainty
- Dancer
- Eleanor Fazan
- Dancer
- John Gregory
- Dancer
- Diane Holland
- Dancer
- Daphne Johnson
- Dancer
- Louisa Lewis (Principal Dancer)
- Dancer
- Letitia Montford
- Dancer
- Aleta Morrison
- Dancer
- Mavis Peterson
- Dancer
- Brenda Ralston
- Dancer
- Arlette Vann
- Dancer
- Frank Ward
- Cast
John Baker Wilson Patrick Barr Martin Nash David Birks 'Labour Permit’ Joyce Cornish Valese Cicely Courtneidge Lady Frances Maxwell Letty Crayden Mrs Payne / Woman reporter Billy Dainty The Bull Peter Ducrow Pitman Sandra Martin Margaretta Margaret McGrath Mary Cresset John Probert Bill Douglas Quayle Ward John Stevens Counsellor Thomas Blore Dorothy Stuart Miss Fothergill Austin Trevor Senor Riazza Thorley Walters Jimmy Denham
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- South America, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 16 September 1949 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 42; article and photograph, p. 40
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