Sir John Gielgud

She finished this novel while living in the house of her friend Ursula Vaughan Williams (its dedicatee) after leaving Kingsley Amis . She was invited to write the script for its filming by Randal Kleiser

JT wrote several plays under the name Gordon Daviot. Her first, Richard of Bordeaux, was by far her greatest critical success. Its immediate successors had much shorter runs, and most of her later...

The West End production was a major success for everyone involved. The first two nights were slow, but the first matinee saw an unexpected rush on seats, and the show became a smash hit....

MK 's next play (again in collaboration with Perry and directed by Gielgud ) was Ducks and Drakes, 1941, published the following year.

This play was considerably less successful than Richard of Bordeaux, and ran for only a few weeks.John Gielgud turned down the male lead, which he felt was too young for him...

The other volumes of the set appeared in 1954. Her plays were a special focus of her concern for posthumous publication: her will instructed her agent to pay for their printing out of her estate...

EC 's articles on theatre include Producing a Play in Munsey's Magazine (June 1907) and Notes on the Costumes in The Kensington (undated). An essay entitled Ellen Terry and Henry Irving (28 June 1939)...

It was an inauspicious time for an opening, because of gathering war-clouds. Anne Ridler later wrote, it was a great pity that Eliot had refused to offer the part [of Harry, the pivotal character] to...

Peter Davies posthumously published the first of a three-volume collection of Plays by Gordon Daviot (also known as JT ), with a foreword by Sir John Gielgud (though without any overview of Daviot's career to...

The play opens in Hollywood, with Mrs Patrick Campbell regaling a new, American generation with her memories. It centres on her relationship with George Bernard Shaw , but her life and career are also...

The play grew out of an argument with Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (Daviot's friend since they met on the set of Richard of Bordeaux) about Mary Stuart 's character. (At that time Daviot sided with Elizabeth of England

Daviot wrote this play in 1936, and sent the script to John Gielgud , who liked [it] very much except for the last act, but this she was not willing to change. It was...

She used the pseudonym M. J. Farrell when the play was published by Collins the same year. The play opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. Perry had urged her to write it, against...

Kennedy co-wrote this play with producer Basil Dean . Opening night in London was a smashing success and a production in New York followed shortly afterwards, to similar acclaim. The star-studded cast included Noël Coward

Following its success on Broadway, EB 's play The Chalk Garden, began its impressive twenty-three-month run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket , directed by John Gielgud and starring Peggy Ashcroft and Edith Evans .