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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/969
Title'A Dead Secret' by Rodney Ackland
Extent1 file
Date1957
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'A Dead Secret' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programme with cast list and typescript dates 1957; printed flyer on front cover [1957]; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; cuttings mention 'A Dead Secret' is a revised and re-written version of the television play 'The Seddons' also by Rodney Ackland and based on a famous murder case of 1911

Performed at The Piccadilly Theatre, London, 30 May 1937, closing performance 30 Nov 1937; presented by Tennent Productions Ltd; directed by Frith Banbury; decor by Reece Pemberton
Also performed at The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, 22 Apr 1957

Casts: Madge Brindley, Dinsdale Landen, Megs Jenkins, Yvonne Bedford, Harold Scott, Jane Henderson, Paul Scofield, Harry Bowers, Gretchen Franklin, Anthony Wilson, Arthur Lowe, Maureen Delany, William Peacock, Laidman Browne, John Saunders, Susan Street, Alan Gunter, Rupert Marsh, Walter Ginel, Olive Sloane
Access StatusOpen

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