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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 AyerUS Deputy-Marshal Farrell
Shirley CooklinIrma Potash
Jacqueline CurtissMiss Levin
Kitty DaviesMrs Potash
Harry GreenMawruss Perlmutter
Roland GreenMozart Rabiner
Madi HeddMiss Cohen
Charles IrwinUS Deputy-Marshal Ferguson
Lillemor KnudsenMiss Nelson
Mayne LyntonBook Agent
Launce MaraschalHenry Steurman
John McLarenHenry D. Feldman
Howard PaysExpressman
Robert RiettyBoris Andrieff
Michael SegalSidney
Eleanor SummerfieldRuth Snyder
Meier TzelnikerAbe Potash
C. Denier WarrenSenator Murphy
Joy WebsterMiss O’Brien
Vic WiseMark 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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