Sir John Gielgud

Milton had his first big London success in 1922, and before Royde-Smith married him she had praised his magnetic performance as Hamlet. Over the course of his career he also tried his luck as a...

The Charioteer's focus on homosexuality caused great concern to MR 's publishers. She had not published anything for five years, and this novel was a significant departure from her earlier work. In Britain her...

HP 's play No Man's Land opened at the National Theatre : a two-hander employing the theatrical eminences John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson , directed by Peter Hall .

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

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...

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

She was in the middle of writing a play when her husband died, and she found she could not go on with it. She was still pretty desolate four years later, when Gielgud and...

She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis . Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her...

NJ said one of the greatest influences on her after her mother was the actress Gladys ffolliott . Her friends in the music-hall and the theatre included a roster of distinguished and less distinguished...

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

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...

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...

The actor John Gielgud was EC 's second cousin. On occasion he performed at her Barn Theatre in Kent.

In addition to a memorial service and speeches, these annual tributes usually included scenes from Shakespeare performed by well-known actors such as John Gielgud and Sybil Thorndike . Playwright Clemence Dane gave a memorial speech...

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)...