The Red Headed Blonde

Summary

1957 BBC Television production of The Red Headed Blonde.

Theatre play

The Red Headed Blonde by Val Guest [more information]

Play synopsis

In this farcical comedy, an American starlet, booked to play the lead in an English musical, astounds the author and director by announcing that she can neither sing nor dance. It is too late to pull out, so all sorts of schemes are devised to hide this fact from the public.

Production history

Produced in Wolverhampton in 1956, and possibly elsewhere earlier.

Date of transmission

Sunday 24 November 1957

Time

8.00pm (90 mins)

Series

Sunday-Night Theatre

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Gerard Glaister

Playwright

Val Guest

Adapted for Television by

Ada Kay

Designer

Stephen Taylor

Cast

Terence Alexander	Jim Henderson
Brian Alexis	Ronnie
Vera Day	Surrey Smith
William Fox	'Banner’ Brown
Tom Gill	Paul Rivers
Francis Matthews	Ken Wilson
Fred McNaughton	Liftman
Warren Mitchell	Tom Weldon
Harry Moore	Fridge Man
Charles Lloyd Pack	Jonathan Maxwell
Edevain Park	Columnist
Henry Soskin	Ambulance Man
Gillian Vaughan	Mavis

Additional details

Play tags

comedy; farce; theatre or acting, as theme

Audiovisual sources

Title

The Red Headed Blonde (BBC, 1957)

Archive

BBC Information and Archives [more information]

Address

White City
London
UK

Telephone

+44 (0)20 8008 2288

Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/

Access

BBC Information and Archives is not open to the public.

Print sources

Title

BBC Television: The Red Headed Blonde (Newspaper review)

Reference

The Times, 25 November 1957, p. 3

Title

Private Life of the Screen (Newspaper review)

Reference

The Manchester Guardian, 25 November 1957, p. 5

Title

Radio Times, 22 November 1957 (Magazine)