The Cure for Love

Summary

1964 studio production of Walter Greenwood’s comedy.

Theatre play

The Cure for Love by Walter Greenwood [more information]

Play synopsis

Comedy. ‘Sergeant Jack Hardacre left a safe job to join the Army in the recent war; he fought with the Eighth Army from Alamein to Italy, he won three medals, he was wounded... [Back in] Lancashire, his mother, Sarah Hardacre, would never think of letting her son know how proud she is of him ... And the neighbours are all too ready to start managing the affairs of their returning hero; his particular problem here is that before going away, Jack had become engaged to Janey Jenkins. What with Janey’s persistence and her pressing mother, Jack would probably take the line of least resistance as he had done before, but for two facts. One is that in the Army he acquired a mind of his own; the other is that in his absence his mother acquired a pretty lodger from the south called Milly.' (Peter Forster, Radio Times, 22 October 1954, p. 14.)

Production history

Premiered at the Westminster Theatre, London, in July 1945.

Date of transmission

Thursday 15 October 1964

Time

9.00-10.15pm

Channel

BBC2

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

John Gorrie

Producer

Cedric Messina

Playwright

Walter Greenwood

Designer

Eileen Diss

Costumes

Susan Wheal

Make-up

Cherry Alston

Story Editor

Rosemary Hill

Cast

June Barry	Milly Southern
Norman Bird	Harry Lancaster
Terence Edmond	Jack Hardacre
Helen Fraser	Janey Jenkins
Daphne Heard	Mrs Dorbell
Joan Hickson	Mrs Jenkins
Kathleen O’Hagan	Lady pianist
Robin Parkinson	Charlie Fox
Joan Pickering	Barmaid
Marjorie Rhodes	Sarah Hardacre
Graham Rigby	Ted Munter
Jack Smethurst	Joe Truman

Additional details

Origination

Recorded in studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Repeated at 9.15pm on Thursday 21 January 1965.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

comedy; military / army / navy / air-force; Second World War, as theme or setting