Late Love

Summary: 1957 Associated-Rediffusion production for ITV of the comedy Late Love by Rosemary Casey.
Theatre play: Late Love by Rosemary Casey [more information]
Play synopsis: 'A famous female portraitist moves into the country home of a prominent widower-writer to paint his portrait. Almost at once she discovers the premises to be dominated by the writer’s mother, an impossible woman who won’t permit smoking, radios or liquor in the house, who insists on punctuality at meals, and otherwise browbeats everyone into a state of timorous dejection. But of course the painter is a lady of great charm and perception. In no time she has fostered the romance of her subject’s daughter and his male secretary, a young scholar not considered suitable by the father. At the same time she is herself the centre of a growing romance with the father and his other guest, a humorous broker. She has also the leisure to charm the bonnet off the grandmother, get the portrait painted, and eventually pull together all the scattered affairs.' Slightly adapted from http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/1489/late-love.
Production history: Wolverhampton Repertory Company performed the play from 23 July 1956 at the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton.
Date of transmission: Wednesday 17 July 1957
Time: 9.00-10.15pm
Series: Play of the Week
Channel: ITV
Production company: Associated-Rediffusion (1955-1964)