Madame Louise

Summary: This BBC production of Vernon Sylvaine’s farce Madame Louise, in a special performance from the Whitehall Theatre in London, was presented in the Brian Rix Presents series.
Theatre play: Madame Louise by Vernon Sylvaine [more information]
Play synopsis: Madame Louise loses her gown shop, situated off Bond Street in London, to a bookmaker who sets about devising new ways to run it but his elaborate schemes do not go to plan.
Production history: 1946
Date of transmission: Sunday 15 July 1956
Time: 8.30pm (90 mins)
Series: Sunday-Night Theatre; Brian Rix Presents
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Director

Wallace Douglas

Television Presentation by

Alan Chivers

Playwright

Vernon Sylvaine

Sets / Settings

Rhoda Gray

Cast

Title: 1956 Rehearsal For TV Production of Madame Louise [image] (Website: image)
Reference: https://www.argentaimages.com/image/view/q/Rios/id/EDS1346285086KSZVMA/name/1956+Rehearsal+For+TV+Production+of+%22Madame+Louise (27 September 2013)

Title: Madame Louise (Audience Research Report)
Archive: BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) [more information]
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Reference: Report reference VR/56/371, held in file R9/7/23

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