Almost a Honeymoon is a 1930 play by Walter Ellis.[1] It debuted at the Garrick Theatre in London and later enjoyed a successful run at the Apollo Theatre.[2] A farce it concerns a young man who has secured a lucrative post in the colonial service. His problem is that the post requires him to be married, and he has just a day to find a woman to be his wife.
Original cast
edit- Charles – Hylton Allen/George Relph
- Bailiff – Christopher Steele
- Basil Dibley – Gerald Pring
- Cuthbert de Grey – Lamont Dickinson
- Mr. Dixon – Edward Thane
- Taxi Driver – Barry Lyndon
- Margaret Brent – Grace Lane
- Rosalie Quilter – Renee Kelly/Mercia Swinburne
Adaptations
editThe play was twice adapted for film. In 1930 Almost a Honeymoon directed by Monty Banks and starring Clifford Mollison and Dodo Watts and in 1938 Almost a Honeymoon directed by Norman Lee and starring Tommy Trinder and Linden Travers.[3][4]
References
edit- ^ Wearing, J. P. (15 May 2014). The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810893047 – via Google Books.
- ^ Smith p.232
- ^ "Almost a Honeymoon (1930) - | Cast and Crew". AllMovie.
- ^ "Almost a Honeymoon (1938) - Norman Lee | Cast and Crew". AllMovie.
Bibliography
edit- Smith, Leslie. Modern British Farce. Barnes and Noble, 1989.
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