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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2757
Title'Bet Your Life' by Alan Melville
Extent1 file
Date1951-1953
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Bet Your Life' with photographs of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programme with cast list and handwritten dates 1953; magazine extract with photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical

Performed at The London Hippodrome, London, 18 Feb 1952, closing performance (361st) 25 Oct 1953; presented by Jack Hylton by arrangement with John Buckley; directed by Richard Bird; production staged by Alec Shanks; music by Kenneth Leslie Smith and Charles Zwar; sets by George Ramon; costumes by Erte and Clere; dance direction by George Carden
Originally at: The New Theatre, Oxford, 4 Dec 1951

Casts: Aletha Orr, William Stewart, Julie Wilson, Brian Reece, Arthur Gomez, Arthur Askey, Sally Ann Howes, Norman Claridge, Tom Gill, John Blythe, John Moore, Pat Marlowe, Noele Gordon
Access StatusOpen

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