| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Rebecca', adapted by Daphne du Maurier; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programme with cast list and photographs of cast members [1940]; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; printed flyer [1940]; programme with cast list for provincial production [1943]; also includes magazine extract photographs of scenes from the 1940 film version (produced by David Selznick; directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
Performed at The Queens Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 5 Apr 1940; presented by H. M. Tennent Ltd; directed by George Divine; decor by Roger Furse; The Opera House, Manchester, 11 Mar 1940
Revived at: The Strand Theatre, London, 21 May 1942, closing performance [5 Sep 1942]; presented H. M. Tennent Ltd; directed by George Divine; decor by Roger Furse
Transferred to: The Lyric Theatre, [Hammersmith], 12 Sep [1942], closing performance [176th] [24 Oct 1942]; The Scala Theatre, London, 26 Apr 1943, closing performance [33rd] [22 May 1943]; presented by Philip Barrett by arrangement with H. M. Tennent Ltd; produced by Philip Barrett; decor by Roger Furse
On tour: 1941: The Opera House, Leicester; The Grand Theatre, Blackpool; 1942: The Royal Theatre, Nottingham; The Royal Theatre, Norwich; 1943: The Wimbledon Theatre; The Golders Green [Hippodrome]
America: The Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, 18 Jan 1945, closing performance, 3 Feb 1945 and tour; directed by Clarence Derwent
Casts: Douglas Jeffries, Margaret Rutherford, Edith Sharpe, George Thorpe, Raymond Huntley, Peter Hicks, Grace Denbeigh Russell, Isolde Denham, Owen Nares, Celia Johnson, Ronald Ward, Theodore Meade, Ernest Hare, Dorothy Lane, C. V. France, Richard George, Clive Woods, Frank Tickle, Barbara Mullen, Jill Furse, Mary Merrall, Eric Cowley, Hugh Miller, Yvonne Owen, Stewart Granger, Michael Shepley, Louise Hampton, Philip Barrett, Eileen Herlie, Chloe Gibson, Henry Latimer, Hargreave Pawson, Patrick Desmond, Wilfred Stephens, Warburton Gamble, Peggy Ashcroft, Henry Worthington, Farren Soutar, Hubert Harben, Eric Maturin, Megan Latimer, Eileen Turner, Nina Gerrard, Richard Stapely, Michael Shannon, Paget Hunter, Royston Tickner, Ann Shore, Ricky Barr, Gwen Llewllyn, Frank Pettitt, Stanley Burgess, Bramwell Fletcher, Florence Reed, Diana Barrymore
Cast for film version: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontain, Judith Anderson, Aubrey Smith, George Saunders, Reginald Denny |