Quality Street

Summary: 1947 BBC live studio production of J. M. Barrie’s comedy Quality Street.
Theatre play: Quality Street by J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) [more information]
Play synopsis: Comedy. Set at the time of the Napoleonic wars, the play tells of two sisters who open a school for "genteel children". They do this following the departure of Dr Brown, the suitor of one of the sisters. Ten years later, the suitor returns and there is a great ball at which everyone is entranced by a young, mysterious beauty. But will Captain Brown chose return to his former love?
Production history: Opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York on 11 November 1901, and then at the Vaudeville Theatre in London on 17 September 1902.
Date of transmission: Thursday 28 August 1947
Time: 8.30-10.15pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

Campbell Logan

Playwright

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937)

Dances Arranged by

Charlotte Bidmead

Cast

Maxine Audley	Patty
Bruce Belfrage	Narrator
Donald Clive	Ensign Blades
David Cole	Master Arthur Wellesley Tomson
Bryan Coleman	Valentine Brown
Valentine Dunn	Miss Willoughby
Margaret Goodman	Miss Henrietta Turnbull
Jennifer Grey	Miss Fanny Willoughby
Philip Holles	An Old Soldier
Thea Holme	Miss Phoebe Throssel
E. J. Kennedy	Recruiting Sergeant
Shirley Lorimer	Isabella
Diana Manship	Harriet
Jean Forbes Robertson	Miss Susan Throssel
Bill Shine	Lieut. Spicer
Ann South	Miss Charlotte Parratt

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