Record

LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/201
Title'Lady Windermere's Fan' by Oscar Wilde
Extent1 file
Date1945-1947
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Lady Windermere's Fan' with photographs of members of the cast; includes printed flyers [1945]; magazine extracts with photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; programme with cast list for tour theatre 1945

Performed at The Haymarket Theatre, Piccadilly, London, 21 Aug 1945; presented by Tennent Plays Ltd in association with CEMA and by arrangement with the Frederick Harrison Trust Ltd; directed by John Gielgud; decor by Cecil Beaton
On tour: 1945: The Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House; The New Theatre, Oxford; 1946-1947: The Empire Theatre, Swansea; The Pavillion, Torquay; The Royal Theatre, Birmingham
America: The Cort Theatre, New York, 14 Oct 1946 and tour; presented by Homer Curran in assosiation with Russell Lewis and Howard Young; directed by Jack Minster; decor by Cecil Beaton

Casts: Isabel Jeans, Dorothy Hyson, Michael Shepley, Denys Blakelock, Athene Seyler, Griffith Jones, Geoffrey Toone, Deering Wells, Patricia Dickson, Stuart Bull, Phyllis Relph, Hugh Stewart, Hilda Bruce Potter, Phyllis Thomas, Thomas Hutcheson, Gladys Wykeham Edwards, Diana Marshall, Antony Massie, Mabel Terry Lewis, Lee Fox, Philip Pearman, Betty England, Douglas Wells, Alan Browne, Michael O'Halloran, John Cross, Ernest Hare, Anthony Marlowe, Cornella Otis Skinner, Penelope Dudley Ward, David Manners, John Buckmaster, Rex Evans, Rex O'Malley, Estelle Winwood, Cecil Beaton, Henry Daniell, Sally Pearson, Peter Evan Thomas, Jack Merivale
Access StatusOpen

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