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The White Falcon

Summary
BBC Television production of Neilson Gattey and Jordan Lawrence’s tragic romantic drama The White Falcon. Paul Rogers and Jeanette Sterke had also played the characters of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII at the Old Vic two years earlier, and the Radio Times reports that they had been keen to play the same leading parts in this tragic love-story (3 February 1956, p. 5).
Theatre play
The White Falcon by Neilson Gattey and Jordan Lawrence [more information]
Date of transmission
Sunday 5 February 1956
Time
8.15pm (90 mins)
Series
Sunday-Night Theatre
Channel
BBC Television
Production company
BBC

Credits

Producer
Rudolph Cartier
Playwright
Neilson Gattey
Playwright
Jordan Lawrence
Composer
Edward German (music for the dances)
Composer
Elisabeth Lutyens (incidental music)
Designer
Stephen Taylor
Choreographer
Tutte Lemkow
Dancer
Louis Conrad
Dancer
Shirley Dixon
Dancer
Stanley Fleet
Dancer
Zohorah Gilbar
Dancer
John Gregory
Dancer
Geraldine Hill
Dancer
Olwen Hought
Dancer
Jennifer Kelly
Dancer
Rae Landor
Dancer
Barbara Lane
Dancer
Julian Pepper
Dancer
David Reynolds
Dancer
Arthur Salaman
Dancer
Joanna Seddons
Dancer
Terry Skelton
Dancer
Anatole Smirnoff
Dancer
Ken Tillson
Dancer
Barbara Viner
Dancer
Selina Wylie
Cast
Jennifer BrowneJane Seymour
Rupert DaviesThomas Cromwell
Roger DelgadoMark Smeaton
Marius GoringDoctor Cranmer
Julia JamesThe Duchess of Suffolk
Kevin KendallPage
Eric LanderSir Thomas Wyatt
Enid LindseyMistress Saville
Paul RogersHenry VIII
Margaretta ScottCatherine of Aragon
Cyril ShapsMaster Salmon
Jeannette SterkeAnne Boleyn
Patrick TroughtonCardinal Wolsey
Grace WebbGentlewoman
Paddy WebsterMaid-in-Waiting
Julian YardleyPage

Additional details

Play tags
16th-century setting; royalty; tragedy

Audiovisual sources

Title
The White Falcon (BBC, 1956)
Archive
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Access

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Print sources

Title
American Fantasy (Newspaper review)
Author/creator
Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
Reference
The Observer, 12 February 1956, p. 10
Title
BFI Screenonline: The White Falcon (1956) (Website)
Author/creator
Oliver Wake (Author)
Reference
BFI Screenonline at http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1218638/index.html (accessed 12 November 2012)
Title
Jam Mañana (Magazine review)
Author/creator
Philip Hope-Wallace (Reviewer)
Reference
The Listener, 9 February 1956, pp. 226-27
Title
Radio Times, 3 February 1956 (Magazine)
Linking notes
article on p. 5 and listing illustrated with b&w image from the production on p. 12

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