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Jeannie

Summary
1954 live BBC studio production of Aimée Stuart’s comedy Jeannie.
Theatre play
Jeannie by Aimée Stuart (1885-1981) [more information]
Date of transmission
Sunday 4 April 1954
Time
8.40-10.10pm
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Director
David Macdonald
Producer
Dennis Vance
Playwright
Aimée Stuart (1885-1981)
Music
Malcolm Rayment
Sets / Settings
John Cooper
Cast
Frank AtkinsonPorter
Michael BarberPage
Cecil BrockSecond Waiter
[W.] Thorpe DevereuxMaître d’hôtel
Olga DickieJeannie’s Mistress
Diana Fairfax
Hilda FenemoreMrs Whitelaw
Margaret GordonBessie
John G. HellerAttendant / First Waiter
Lesley Jackson
Carl Lacey
John LaurieFather
Peter Morny
Barbara MullenJeannie
Katherine PageMaggie
Mila ParelyBlonde
Eric PortmanStanley Smith
Hedi Schnabel
Paul SheridanHotel Clerk
Robert Stead
Nickola Sterne
André Van GyseghemCount

Additional details

Origination
Live from studio
Vision original
Monochrome
Later transmissions
Presented again at 9.10pm on Thursday 8 April 1954.
Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
comedy; Scotland, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 2 April 1954 (Magazine)
Linking notes
listing and extended picture caption, p. 14
Title
Wee Jeanie (Magazine review)
Author/creator
Philip Hope-Wallace (Author)
Reference
The Listener, 8 April 1954, pp. 624-25

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