Love for Love
- Summary
- 1947 live studio production of William Congreve’s Restoration comedy Love for Love.
- Theatre play
- Love for Love by William Congreve [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 10 August 1947
- Time
- 8.30-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Royston Morley
- Playwright
- William Congreve
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
Lilian Arland Jenny George Benson Ben Elwyn Brook-Jones Tattle Erik Chitty (1907-1977) Buckram Molly Hamley-Clifford Nurse Joyce Heron Angelica Seymour Hicks Mr Betterton Vida Hope Miss Prue Richard Hurndall Valentine Christine Lindsay Mrs Foresight Pamela Matthews Mrs Frail Victor Platt Servant Kynaston Reeves Sir Sampson Legend Ernest Thesiger Foresight Irene Vanbrugh Mrs Bracegirdle Guy Verney Jeremy Mackenzie Ward Scandal
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 3.00pm on Tuesday 12 August 1947.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 17th-century setting; comedy; Restoration drama
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 8 August 1947 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 31; illustrated article, p. 29
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