A Woman of No Importance- February 1953

Title: A Woman of No Importance
Date: February
Type: Play
Company: N/A
Location: Savoy Theatre, London, England
Playwright: Oscar Wilde
Director: Michael Benthall
Collection Folder: Folder 12

Cast

Lady Caroline Pontefract: Jean Cadell
Miss Hester Worsley: Frances Hyland
Sir John Pontefract: William Mervyn
Lady Hunstanton: Athene Seyler
The Ven. Archdeacon Daubeny, D.D.: Aubrey Mather
Gerald Arbuthnot: Peter Barkworth
James, Footman: Paul Anstee
Mrs Allonby: Isabel Jeans
Lady Stutfield: Joan Benham
Mr Kevil, M.P.: Philip Burton
Lord Illingworth: Clive Broom
Lord Alfred Rufford: Charles Perry
Farquhar, Butler: Stringer Davis
Francis, Footman: Peter Bayliss
Mrs Arbuthnot: Nora Swinburne
Alice, Maid: Daphne Newton

Crew

For A Woman of No Importance

Producer: H.M. Tennent
Editor: Paul Dehn
Sets and Costumes: Loudon Sainthill
Scenery Building: Brunskill & Loveday Ltd.
Scenery Painting: Alick Johnston

For Tennent Productions Ltd.

General Manager: Bernard Gordon
Manager & Stage Director: Anthony Chardet
Stage Manager: Helen Lowry
Assistant Stage Managers: Jane Shirley, Paul Anstee
Production Manager: Ian Dow
Chief Engineer: Joe Davis
Chief Wardrobe Supervisor: Lily Taylor
Press Representative: Vivienne Beverley

For the Savoy Theatre

Licensee: Hugh Wontner
General Manager: Frederic Lloyd
Manager: Kenneth Brodie
Box Office Manager: A.L. Skinner

Programme Printed By: John Waddington Ltd.

Notes

Production ran February-July 1953. Specific date determined by advertising for shows. Programme advertises show opening on 20th March 1953, and a show that closed in February 1953.

Editor credited as script was reportedly cut down.