Cynara

Summary

1959 Associated-Rediffusion production of Cynara by H. M. Harwood and R. Gore Browne.

Theatre play

Cynara by H. M. Harwood and R. Gore Browne [more information]

Play synopsis

A play about a happily married man, Jim Warlock, who meets a girl at a beauty competition who wishes to kill herself when she realises she can not break up his marriage.

Production history

A West End success from 1930.

Date of transmission

Tuesday 20 October 1959

Series

Play of the Week

Channel

ITV

Production company

Associated-Rediffusion (1955-1964)

Credits

Director

Joan Kemp-Welch (1906-1999)

Playwright

R. Gore Browne

Playwright

H. M. Harwood

Adapted for Television by

Diana Morgan

Set Designer

Henry Federer

Cast

Phyllis Barker	Maid
Richard Cuthbert	Police Inspector
Michael Ely	First Police Sergeant
Coral Fairweather	Merton
Walter Horsbrugh	Foreman of Jury
Pauline Innes	Alice Fish
Ellis Irving	Coroner
Avice Landone	Clemency Warlock
Mary Law	Gillian Miltes
Don Mathews	Second Police Sergeant
Maria Nermi	Mme Ducette
Sally Nesbitt	Kay Brody
Vic Oliver	Jim Warlock
Sylvia Osborne	Woman Juror
Steve Plytas	Joseph
Pat Sandys	Doris Lea
Hugh Sinclair	Sir John Tring
Robert Young	Waiter

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

adultery / infidelity

Print sources

Title

TV Times, 16 October 1959 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article, p. 16; listing, p. 37