Learning on ScreenMarco Millions
- Summary
- BBC studio production of Eugene O’Neill’s Marco Millions, based on the current production running at the Westminster Theatre, London.
- Theatre play
- Marco Millions by Eugene O’Neill [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 8 January 1939
- Time
- 9.05-10.35pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Television Presentation by
- Lanham Titchener
- Television Production by
- Michael MacOwan
- Playwright
- Eugene O’Neill
- Set Designer
- Malcolm Baker-Smith
- Decor
- Peter Goffin
- Cast
Max Adrian Michael Denison Robert Emhardt Robert Harris Kublai Kaan Vera Hodson George Howe Griffith Jones Marco Polo Catherine Lacey Princess Kukachin Stephen Murray Rosanna Seaborn George Woodbridge
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- 13th-century setting; exploration; Italy, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 6 January 1939 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- mentioned in an article by ‘The Scanner’ on p. 15; listing on p. 16, illustrated with a photograph of Jones and Lacey in costume
- Title
- Television (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- E. H. R. (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 8 January 1939, p. 21
- Title
- The Higher Fudge: A Very Serious Play (Theatre review)
- Author/creator
- James Agate (Author)
- Reference
- The Sunday Times, 1 January 1939, p. 4
- Notes
- A detailed review of the stage production on which this broadcast was based.
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