Dream Girl

Summary: 1960 BBC production of Dream Girl by Elmer Rice.
Theatre play: Dream Girl by Elmer Rice (1892-1967) [more information]
Play synopsis: Georgina Allerton’s ‘efforts to run a bookstore are undermined severely by her tendency to drift off into Walter Mitty-like flights of fancy on a regular basis. The play’s time span covers a single day of her life, during which several successive extravagant and often comic daydreams are portrayed’. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Girl_%28play%29.
Production history: 'The Broadway production, directed by the playwright, opened on December 14, 1945 at the Coronet Theatre, where it closed exactly one year later following a run of 348 performances. [...] A 1948 screen version, directed by Mitchell Leisen, starred Betty Hutton, Macdonald Carey, Peggy Wood, and Walter Abel. In 1965, it was adapted for the Broadway musical stage under the title Skyscraper’. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Girl_%28play%29.
Date of transmission: Saturday 13 August 1960
Time: 8.40-10.10pm
Series: Saturday Playhouse
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

Eric Fawcett

Playwright

Elmer Rice (1892-1967)

Designer

Roy Oxley

Cast

Natalie Benesch	Lucy Allerton / Nurse
Richard Cuthbert	Bert
Barbara French	Miss Delehanty
Rosemary Garfield	Usher
Alan Gifford	George Hand
Edmund Glover	District Attorney
Nellie Hanham	Customer in Bookshop
Helen Horton	Claire Blakeley
Dermot Palmer	Jim Lucas
Joy Shelton	Miriam Lucas / Arabella
William Sherwood	George Allerton / Dr Percival / Obstetrician / Judge / Theatre Manager / Ezra Billings / J. P.
Frank Sieman	Luigi
Judith Stott	Georgina Allerton
David Stuart	Radio Announcer
Wiliam Sylvester	Clark Redfield / Mexican
David Tearle	Policeman

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