| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme extract inside front cover gives cast list and has typescript dates and change in cast member; includes photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; also includes photographs of stills from the MGM film version of the play 1934
Performed at The Queens Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 23 Sep 1930, closing performance, 2 Jan 1932; presented by Barry Jackson; produced by H. K. Ayliff; costumes and scenery by Paul Shelving
Originally at: The Malvern Theatre, 20 Aug 1930 (as part of the Malvern Festival)
Revived at The Piccadilly Theatre, London, 22 Jan 1935, closing performance, 9 Mar 1935; presented by Barry Jackson; produced by H. K. Ayliff; costumes and scenery by Paul Shelving; The Garrick Theatre, London, 6 May 1948; presented by Emile Littler; produced by H. K. Ayliff
On tour: 1931: The New Theatre, Oxford; The Royal Theatre, Birmingham; The Royal Theatre, Nottingham; The Royal Theatre, Halifax; The Perth Theatre; 1932: The Kings Theatre, Hammersmith; The Palace Theatre, Manchester; The Opera House, Northampton; The Pleasure Gardens, Folkstone; The Royal Theatre, Plymouth; 1933: The Kings Theatre, Portsmouth; The Winter Gardens Theatre, New Brighton; The Princes Theatre, Manchester; 1949: The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
America: The Empire Theatre, New York, 9 Feb 1931 (370 performances); presented by Katharine Cornell; staged by Guthrie McClintic; scenery and costumes by Jo Mielziner; The Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, 1945; directed by Guthrie McClintic; scenery and costumes by Jo Mielziner
Casts: Aubrey Mallalieu, Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, Eileen Beldon, Marjorie Mars, Susan Richmond, Barry K. Barnes, Bryan Coleman, Hugh Moxey, Leonard Bennett, Douglas Quayle, Anthony Marshall, Cedric Hardwicke, Joan Barry, Oliver Johnstone, Scott Sunderland, Wilfrid Caithness, Harry Wilcoxon, Valentine Dyall, Holland Bennett, Guy Verney, Douglas Wells, F. Thornton Bassett, Kenneth Fraser, Wilfred Lawson, Joan White, Ronald Waters, Margaret Johnson, Alec Clunes, Patricia Raine, Sarah Churchill, Tom Walls snr, Tom Walls jnr, Christopher Calthrop, Alban Blakelock, Rita Daniel, Charles Laughton, Norma Shearer, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frederic March, Brian Aherne, Margalo Gillmore, Joyce Carey, Katharine Cornell, George Riddell, Margaret Barker, John Halloran, John Buckler, Brenda Forbes, Dorothy Mathews, Henry Bevan, Oswald Marshall, McKay Morris, Basil Rathbone, Charles Waldron, Morini Olson, Margot Stevenson, John Hoysradt, John Emery, Reynolds Evans, Irving Morrow, Robert Champlain, Emmie Arthur Williams, Ion Swinley, Chris Castor, Nora Delany, Corinne Bouchier, E. Bellenden Clarke, Molly Leuw, Nell Carter, Doris Griffiths, Wilson Coleman, Ronald Kerr, Virginia Isham, Owen Griffith, Rex De Vigne, Philip Howard, Herbert Conyer, Yvar Nicholls, Edward Grosvenor, Douglas Wells, H. Lockwood West, Richard Fisher, May Romney, Leonard Downhill, William Southey, Patrick Vyvyan, Robert Forsyth, Arthur Claremont, Robert Manning, Frederick Ring, Julian D'Albie, Daphne Heard, Donald Wolfitt, Prudence Magor, Sophie Stewart, A. Caton Woodville, Molly Hartley Milburn, Peggy Surtees, Jon Brown, Ellis Irving, Cyril Renison, Olga Murgatroyd, Bellenden Powell, Vivienne Jefferies, Margaret Grimsdale, Elmer Waters, Barbara Babington, A. P. Hill, Reginald George, George Moore, Frank Leslie, Douglas Freear, Stephen Arlen, E. Dunscombe Branson, Arthur Bowers, Irene Ouston, Sidney Rennif, Blake Gifford, John Warwick, Oswald Mosley, Derek Birch, Walter Dibb, Myrtle Rowe, Norris Stayton, Pamela Page, Hazel Bainbridge, Wilfrid Caithness, Sheelah Wilcock, Griffith Moss, Robert Weeden, Jack Hine, John McBennett, Keith Cooke, Frederick Payne, Frederick Davies, Ellen Martin, David Ashman, Maurice Michel
Cast for film version: Norma Shearer, Frederic March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan |