The Immortal Lady [scenes]

Summary: 1948 BBC live studio production for children of scenes from Clifford Bax’s The Immortal Lady, performed by the company of the Children’s Theatre, Ltd, under the management of Glyndebourne and Toynbee Hall, in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain.
Theatre play: The Immortal Lady by Clifford Bax (1886-1962) [more information]
Play synopsis: The romantic story of the eighteenth-century Jacobite courtier Winifred Maxwell, countess of Nithsdale.
Production history: First performed in 1931 and published in Valiant Ladies: Three New Plays by Clifford Bax, London: Victor Gollancx, Mundanus, 1931. Published in London as a French’s Acting Edition in 1932.
Date of transmission: Sunday 16 May 1948
Time: 4.15-5.00pm
Series: For the Children
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC
Theatre company: Children’s Theatre Ltd

Presented for Television by

Jan Bussell

Theatre Producer

John Allen

Playwright

Clifford Bax (1886-1962)

Narrator

John Allen

Cast

Bernard Archard	William Maxwell, Earl of Nithsdale
Morris Fishman
Charles Hubbard
Susan Kennaway	Mary Morgan
Vera Lindsay	Catherine Mills
Jean McConnell
Cameron Miller	Sergeant Jenkins
June Monkhouse	Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale
Rachel Order
Eugene Saunders
Peter Stephens	Venetian Ambassador

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