Learning on ScreenL’Aiglon
- Summary
- 1953 BBC live studio presentation of Edmond Rostand’s historical drama L’Aiglon.
- Theatre play
- The Eaglet [L’Aiglon] by Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 12 April 1953
- Time
- 8.40-approx. 10.40pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Rudolph Cartier
- Playwright
- Edmond Rostand (1868-1918)
- Adapted for Television by
- Clemence Dane (1888-1965)
- Translator
- Clemence Dane (1888-1965)
- Music
- Richard Addinsell
- Conductor
- Muir Mathieson
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Choreographer
- Tutte Lemkow
- Dancer
- Robert Harrold
- Dancer
- Tutte Lemkow
- Dancer
- Norman McDowell
- Dancer
- Ronald Yerrell
- Cast
Maxine Audley The Archduchess Ann Cherry Ian Colin French Attaché William Devlin (1911-1987) General Hartmann Gavin Dyer John Gabriel Gentz Ann Gow Charles Hodgson Tiburce de Lorget Wilfred [or Wilfrid] Lawson Flambeau Frank Lloyd Eric Messiter Marmont Alexis Milne Henry Oscar (1891-1969) Count Sedlinsky Eileen Peel Marie-Louise Conrad Phillips Officer Roderick Robertson Milton Rosmer Franz I Sheila Shand-Gibbs Thérèse de Lorget Neil Sieler Peggy Simpson Fanny Elssler Martin Starkie Franz, Duke of Reichstadt MacGregor Urquhart Old Peasant Margot van der Burgh Countess Camerata André Van Gyseghem Metternich Peter Wyngarde Prokesch Raymond Young Count Bombelles
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Later transmissions
- Presented again at 7.00pm on Thursday 16 April 1953.
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 19th-century setting; France, as theme or setting; French drama; historical drama
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 10 April 1953 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and photo, p. 14; article by Clemence Dane, ‘L’Aiglon After Fifty Years’, p. 7
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