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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/1001
Title'Queen Elizabeth Slept Here' by Talbot Rothwell
Extent1 file
Date[1940]-1951
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Queen Elizabeth Slept Here', adapted from 'George Wahsington Slept Here' by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast; includes programme with cast list and script dates 1949; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play with cast list

Performed at The Strand Theatre, London, 3 Nov 1949, closing performance (350th) 2 Sep 1950; presented by Stanley French and Firth Shephard Ltd by arrangement with Gordon Stewart; directed by Richard Bird; settings by Henderson Storie
On tour: 1950: The Grand Theatre, Leeds; 1951: The Embassy Theatre, Peterborough
America: The Lyceum, New York, [1940] (as 'George Washington Slept Here')

Casts: Kenneth Connor, Dulcie Gray, Michael Denison, Joy Hodgkinson, Gordon Bell, Daisy Bindley, Susan Richmond, Max Helpmann, Winifred Melville, Julie Boas, Stanley Foreman, Frank Tilton, Julien Mitchell, Rosalyn Boulter, Jimmy Hanley, Carol Tennant, Sonnie Hale, Charles Heslop, Victoria Hopper, Ronald Marsh, Sheila Wynn, Joan Harding, Hope Carr, Elizabeth Howarth, Monica McLeod, Neil Crawford, Geoffrey Denton, Peter Cozens, Sean Lynch, Fred Kitchen jnr, Dodo Watts, Michael Binton, Ernest Truex, Jean Dixon, Dudley Digges
Access StatusOpen

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