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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/3283
Title'The First Gentleman' by Norman Ginsbury
Extent1 file
Date1945-1957
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The First Gentleman' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; includes printed flyer; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The New Theatre, London, 18 Jul 1945; presented by Henry Sherek; produced by Norman Marshall; scenery by Laurence Irving; costumes by Elizabeth Haffenden; music arranged by Herbert Griffiths
Transferred to: The Savoy Theatre, London [27 Aug 1945, closing performance [553rd] [16 Nov 1946]; The Opera House, Manchester
America: May 1957; staged by Tyrone Guthrie; produced by Alexander Cohen, Ralph Alswang and Arthur Twitchell

Casts: Robert Morley, Wendy Hiller, Geoffrey Toone, Wilfred Walter, Una Venning, Robert Beaumont, Brown Derby, Ian Sadler, Frances Waring, Amy Frank, Guy le Feuvre, Madge Compton, Sigris Landstad, Christine Lindsay, Christina Horniman, Helen Stirling, Walter Slezak, Inga Swebson, Isobel Elsom
Access StatusOpen

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