The Two Mrs Carrolls

Summary

1957 BBC Television production of Martin Vale’s thriller The Two Mrs Carrolls, from the BBC’s North of England television studio, Manchester.

Theatre play

The Two Mrs Carrolls by Martin Vale [more information]

Play synopsis

A thriller in which portrait painter Geoffrey and his second wife Sally’s new life in a villa in the South of France seems as if it is going to be idyllic. He plans, however, to murder her by slow-poisoning; he is discovered in the attempt and commits suicide. Time: the present.

Production history

First produced at the St Martin’s Theatre, London, on 12 June 1935; published London: Allen 1936.

Date of transmission

Thursday 10 October 1957

Time

8.02pm (88 mins)

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

George R. Foa

Playwright

Martin Vale

Designer

Kenneth Lawson

Cast

Petra Davies	Sally Carroll
Michael Gough	Geoffrey Carroll
Noël Hood	Mrs Latham
Blanaid Irvine	Cecily Harden
Hattie Jacques	Clemence
Pauline Jameson	Harriet Carroll
William Lucas	Pennington
Donald Price	Dr Tuttle

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

art world; France, as theme or setting; thriller

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 4 October 1957 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article and listing on p. 21; mentioned also on p. 5