Will Any Gentleman?

Summary

1961 BBC production of Will Any Gentleman?, the farce by Vernon Sylvaine.

Theatre play

Will Any Gentleman? by Vernon Sylvaine [more information]

Play synopsis

Farce. ‘Vernon Sylvaine thought up the idea of having poor, meek, Henry Stirling called up on to a stage, hypnotised, his character changed, and accidentally let loose again to behave in the most extraordinary Jekyll-and-Hyde fashion to his wife, his maid, his boss - in fact anyone within sight’ (Radio Times, 21 December 1961, p. 30).

Production history

First staged at the Strand, London in September 1950. Source: The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume 3, edited by George Watson, Ian R. Willison (1969).

Date of transmission

Tuesday 26 December 1961

Time

8.00-9.30pm

Series

Brian Rix Presents

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Wallace Douglas

Television Presentation by

Mary Evans

Playwright

Vernon Sylvaine

Sets / Settings

Rhoda Gray

Cast

Jeanne Cook	Dancer
Hazel Douglas	Beryl
Fabia Drake	Mrs Whittle
Leo Franklyn	Dr Smith
Helen Jessop	Honey Camden Brown
Jacqueline Jones	Angel
Basil Lord	Charley Stirling
Peter Mercier	Mendoza
Sheila Mercier	Florence Stirling
Larry Noble	Albert Boyle
Brian Rix (1924-)	Henry Stirling
Terry Scott	Stanley Jackson
Stuart Sherwin	Det.-Insp. Martin

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

comedy; farce; hypnosis

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 21 December 1961 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article, with image, p. 30; listing, p. 33