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Hotel Paradiso

Summary
1962 BBC production of the farce Hotel Paradiso by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres.
Theatre play
Hotel Paradiso by Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) and Maurice Desvallieres [more information]
Date of transmission
Friday 21 December 1962
Time
9.25-10.40pm
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producer
Rosemary Hill
Playwright
Maurice Desvallieres
Playwright
Georges Feydeau (1862-1921)
Translator
Peter Glenville
Designer
Stephen Bundy
Costume Supervisor
Dorothea Wallace
Make-up Supervisor
Elizabeth Blattner
Cast
Geoffrey BayldonMartin
Robert GillespieGeorges
Patrick GodfreyMaxim de Winter
Frances GuthrieViolette
William KendallCotta
Reginald MarshInspector Bouchard
Julia McCarthyPaquerette
Patricia PactMarguerite
Joan SandersonAngélique
Cyril ShapsBoniface
Sandra SkermerPervenche
June WhitfieldMarcelle
Josephine WoodfordVictoire, who plays Lucille Desmoulins
Peter WyattPoliceman

Additional details

Extant status
No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags
19th-century setting; adultery / infidelity; farce; French drama

Print sources

Title
Radio Times, 13 December 1962 (Magazine)
Linking notes
article with image, p. 45; listing, p. 47

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