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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/924
Title'Dial 'M' for Murder' by Frederick Knott
Extent1 file
Date1952-1954
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Dial 'M' for Murder' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; includes programme with cast list, brief biographies of cast members and date 1952; magazine extract with photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The Westminster, London, 19 Jun 1952, closing performance (425th) 27 Jun 1953; presented by James P. Sherwood; directed by John Fernald; setting by Paul Mayo
On tour: 1953: The Lyceum, Edinburgh; 1954: The Opera House, Cheltenham
America: The Plymouth Theatre, New York, [1954]

Casts: Jane Baxter, Alan MacNaughton, Emrys Jones, Olaf Pooley, Andrew Cruickshank, Sheila Burrell, Edward Dane, Donald Price, John Downing, Campbell Copelin, Rosaline Haddon, Richard Grant, Maurice Evans, Gusti Huber, Richard Derr, John Williams

Cast for film version: Robert Cummings, Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, John Williams, Anthony Dawson
Access StatusOpen

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