| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Hotel Paradiso', translated by Peter Glenville; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programmes 1956, 1957 with cast lists and typescript dates; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; magazine article from 'Plays and Players' [1956] on playwright Georges Feydeau, written by Peter Glenville
Performed at The Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, 2 May 1956, closing performance, 3 Nov 1956; presented by H. M. Tennent and Peter Glenville; directed by Peter Glenville; settings and costumes by Osbert Lancaster
Previously presented at: The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, 10 Apr 1956 (as 'Free Exchange at the Hotel Paradiso')
Revived at:The Streatham Hill Theatre, 15 Jul 1957; produced by William Chappell; settings and costumes by Osbert Lancaster; The Theatre Royal, Windsor, 18 Nov 1957; directed by Joan Riley; settings by Hal Henshaw
America: New York [May] 1957; presented by Richard Myers, Julius Fleischmann, Bowden, Barr and Bullock; directed by Peter Glenville
Casts: Alec Guinness, Martita Hunt, Irene Worth, Frank Pettingell, Kenneth Williams, Billie Whitelaw, Douglas Byng, Cyril Wheeler, John Grant, Michael Malnick, Leslie Kyle, Thomas Elliott, Jale Davaz, Ann Warren, Alanna Boyce, Virginia Holt, Ronald Radd, Michael Bates, Phyllis Montefiore, Douglas Stewart, John Salew, Irene Browne, Frankie Howerd, Heather Chasen, Michael Logan, Michael Danvers Walker, Margo Jenkins, Peter Stephens, Ernest Woodford, Peter Lamsley, Anthony Selby, Mary Richards, Angela Crow, Ann Beach, Peggy Ann Taylor, John Gordon, Rose Power, Patrick Newell, George Benson, Daphne Newton, Diana King, Keneth Thornett, Kenneth Fortescue, Shirley Cooklin, Malcolm Russell, Stephen Croft, John Hamblin, Robert Desmond, George Little, Margo Andrew, Jeanne Elvin, Lorna Henderson, Pamela Cross, David Lawton, Robert Desmond, Greta Borg, Bruno Barnage, Bert Lahr, Angela Lansbury, John Emery, Vera Pearce, Sondra Lee |