The Laughing Woman
- Summary
- 1958 BBC Television production of Gordon Daviot’s The Laughing Woman.
- Theatre play
- The Laughing Woman by Gordon Daviot (1896-1952) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Friday 12 December 1958
- Time
- 8.45pm (90 mins)
- Series
- Sunday-Night Theatre
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- John Jacobs
- Playwright
- Gordon Daviot (1896-1952)
- Designer
- John Cooper
- Artist
- Sydney Harpley (credited with ‘sculpture and drawings’)
- Cast
Ronald Adam (1896-1979) Sir Cuthbert Graham Lally Bowers Laura Gadd Peter Bull Smith Angela Crow Doll Simmons Rosalie Crutchley Magda Kletzka Brenda Dunrich Madame Grumier John Falconer Butler Michael Golden O’Brien Nan Marrion-Watson Washerwoman Martin Miller Hergesheimer Peter O’Toole René Latour Dorothea Phillips MArion Slade Marian Spencer Mrs Smith Gabriel Toyne Burched Jennifer Wilson Hazel Graham
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- art world; wartime, as theme or setting
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 12 December 1958 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, image and article on p. 9
- Title
- The Book Man Travels: Deserved Promotion (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 16 December 1958, p. 5
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