Sir Lewis Casson
Standard Name: Casson, Sir Lewis
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Clemence Dane | Among CD
's many friends were Sybil Thorndike
, Lewis Casson
, Noël Coward
, and Alfred Hitchcock
. Coward valued her friendship and her perceptive criticism of his work very highly, and used her... |
| Friends, Associates | Dora Russell | During this period, the Russells' friends and associates included Sybil Thorndike
and Lewis Casson
, Ottoline Morrell
, T. S. Eliot
, W. B. Yeats
, G. B.
and Charlotte Shaw
, Desmond MacCarthy
... |
| Textual Production | Clemence Dane | Another of her plays of the thirties that she mentions is Mariners, based on the local clergyman of her childhood and the private tragedy of his wife. The couple were played by Lewis Casson |
| Textual Production | Clemence Dane | Thorndike and her husband Lewis Casson
, who had been in other plays by CD
, both appeared in this drama set in a home for the elderly. The character of Blanche Carroll was based... |
| Textual Production | Anne Ridler | Henry Bly was written for Martin Browne
's Mercury Theatre
, but only got as far as a read-through by the Poets Theatre Guild
before Browne's tenure of the theatre lapsed. Another of these plays,... |
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