Let Them Eat Cake [scenes]
- Summary
- 1959 BBC presentation of scenes from the comedy Let Them Eat Cake by Frederick Lonsdale, televised direct from the Cambridge Theatre, London, by arrangement with Emile Littler.
- Theatre play
- Let Them Eat Cake by Frederick Lonsdale (1881-1954) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Tuesday 2 June 1959
- Time
- 8.00-8.45pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Television Presentation by
- John Vernon
- Theatre Director
- Wallace Douglas
- Playwright
- Frederick Lonsdale (1881-1954)
- Designer
- Doris Zinkeisen
- Cast
Patricia Burke Molly Michael Denison Johnny Eunice Gayson Liz Pleydell Dulcie Gray Nancy Claude Hulbert Archie Henry Kendall Hugo Humphrey Lestocq Eric Linden MP Jean Lodge Dorothy Austin Melford Morton Guy Middleton Reggie Phyllis Neilson-Terry Emily Cyril Raymond Charles Pleydell James Sharkey Paul Geoffrey Wren Footman
Additional details
- Play tags
- adultery / infidelity; comedy
Print sources
- Title
- A Lonsdale Play Refurbished: Dulcie Gray in Country House Comedy (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Manchester Guardian, 7 May 1959, p. 7
- Linking notes
- n.b. this is a review of the stage production, not the televised excerpt.
- Title
- Radio Times, 29 May 1959 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing, p. 15
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