Anastasia
- Summary
- 1953 BBC Television production of Marcelle Maurette’s Anastasia, which won the Daily Mail’s Best TV Play of the Year award for 1953-54 (source: Jason Jacobs, The Intimate Screen, p. 13).
- Theatre play
- Anastasia by Marcelle Maurette (1909-1972) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 12 July 1953
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producers
- John Counsell, Rosemary Hill
- Playwright
- Marcelle Maurette (1909-1972)
- Sets / Settings
- Barry Learoyd
- Cast
Charles Cameron Sergei Bryan Coleman Prince Paul Peter Cushing Piotr Petrovsky Ruth Goddard Lady in Waiting Michael Godfrey Felix Oblensky Everley Gregg The Charwoman Helen Haye The Dowager Empress of Russia Anthony Ireland (1902-1957) Prince Bounine Mary Kerridge Anna Broun Malcolm Russell Boris Chernov Jacqueline Squire Antonia Geoffrey Tyrrell The Sleigh Driver
Additional details
- Notes
- Cast and credits taken from the BBC archive recording.
- Play tags
- Germany, as theme or setting; inheritance; royalty; Russia (Soviet Union etc), as theme or setting
Audiovisual sources
- Title
- Anastasia (BBC, 1953)
- Archive
- BBC Information and Archives [more information]
Address
White City
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Websitehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/
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Print sources
- Title
- Television Notes (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- C. A. Lejeune (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 26 July 1953, p. 11
- Title
- The Intimate Screen: Early British Television Drama (Book)
- Author/creator
- Jason Jacobs (Author)
- Reference
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
- Linking notes
- p. 13
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