Potash and Perlmutter
- Summary
- 1955 live BBC broadcast from the Television Theatre of Montagu Glass and Charles Klein’s Jewish comedy Potash and Perlmutter.
- Theatre play
- Potash and Perlmutter by Montagu Glass and Charles Klein [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Monday 1 August 1955
- Time
- 8.15-9.45pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Julian Amyes
- Playwright
- Montagu Glass
- Playwright
- Charles Klein
- Original Story by
- Montagu Glass
- Designer
- Stephen Bundy
- Cast
Harold Ayer US Deputy-Marshal Farrell Shirley Cooklin Irma Potash Jacqueline Curtiss Miss Levin Kitty Davies Mrs Potash Harry Green Mawruss Perlmutter Roland Green Mozart Rabiner Madi Hedd Miss Cohen Charles Irwin US Deputy-Marshal Ferguson Lillemor Knudsen Miss Nelson Mayne Lynton Book Agent Launce Maraschal Henry Steurman John McLaren Henry D. Feldman Howard Pays Expressman Robert Rietty Boris Andrieff Michael Segal Sidney Eleanor Summerfield Ruth Snyder Meier Tzelniker Abe Potash C. Denier Warren Senator Murphy Joy Webster Miss O’Brien Vic Wise Mark Pasinsky
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from theatre
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- America, as theme or setting; American drama; comedy; Jewish context or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Post Morten (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Author)
- Reference
- The Listener, 11 August 1955, p. 231
- Notes
- Of Caviar to the General: ‘Quite sportingly done and well, if rather timidly, directed’
- Title
- Radio Times, 29 July 1955 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing and caption, p. 20; article, ‘Harry Green - Human Cyclone’, by Rowan Ayers, p. 9; also brief article, p. 15
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