Honour Bright

Summary: 1958 Associated Television production for ITV of Honour Bright, Donald Ogden Stewart’s adaptation of the French drama Le Secret des dieux by Léopold Marchand.
Theatre play: Honour Bright [Le Secret des dieux] by Léopold Marchand (1891-1952) [more information]
Play synopsis: 'The play introduces a blustering, bumbling Mayor of New York, Dante Corrigan, played by John Stone. He has a brilliant quiz-kid prodigy of a son, who writes all his speeches and lands him in a peace offensive at a time when votes are more important to him than world peace. The "error" occurs because the son [...] has fallen in love. His "amoureuse" is another genius’ (TV Times, 19 September 1958, p. 9).
Production history: First staged at the Théâtre Michel, Paris, 18 December 1948.
Date of transmission: Friday 26 September 1958
Time: 9.00-10.00pm
Series: Television Playhouse
Channel: ITV
Production company: Associated Television (ATV, 1955-1982)

Director

Phil Brown

Playwright

Léopold Marchand (1891-1952)

Adapted for Television by

Donald Ogden Stewart

Sets / Settings

Paul Mayo

Cast

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