Mary Rose (BBC Radio, 20/Feb/1940)
The second radio adaptation of J.M. Barrie's melancholic play "Mary Rose" to star Nova Pilbeam in the title role, following the 85-minute 1938 adaptation.
As well as Pilbeam, this adaptation featured a number of actors who had worked with director Alfred Hitchcock in the 1930s: Derrick de Marney, A. Bromley Davenport, Mary Jerrold, Nova Pilbeam, Stephen Haggard and John Laurie.
Pilbeam went on to play the role in a further BBC radio adaptation in 1947.
Broadcast Details
- broadcast on BBC Radio (Home Service)
- date: 20/Feb/1940, 7:30pm
- length: 60 minutes
Synopsis
The play covers a period of over thirty years. It opens in a small manor house in Sussex, passes to an island in the Hebrides, and back to the house again.[1]
Credits
- Barbara Burnham - producer
- J.M. Barrie - original play
Cast
- Jean Cadell — Mrs Otery
- Derrick de Marney — Harry
- A. Bromley Davenport — Rev George Amy
- Hubert Harben — Mr Morland
- Mary Jerrold — Mrs Morland
- Nova Pilbeam — Mary Rose
- Stephen Haggard — Simon
- John Laurie — Cameron
