Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Performance of text | Enid Bagnold | |
Performance of text | Enid Bagnold | Since it was directed by David O. Selznick
, who had recently produced Gone with the Wind (1939), the play drew a number of Hollywood stars and writers on the first night. It was not... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Baker | Sybil Thorndike
played the role of Thomas Scott's daughter Annie. The play was published the same year by Sidgwick and Jackson
. |
politics | Phyllis Bottome | After the war, PB
continued to be politically active, often writing letters to the editor of the Times on subjects like liberalism and human rights in South Africa. In the issue dated 14 December 1951... |
Textual Production | Vera Brittain | Her chief reason for writing these letters, said VB
, was the flow of correspondence coming to her from people asking how they could oppose the war, or making suggestions that women in particular should... |
Occupation | Edith Craig | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Edith Craig | Sybil Thorndike
presided over the dinner, and Queen Mary
sent her congratulations. EC
was presented with a cheque and a scroll signed by two hundred friends. Playwright Cicely Hamilton
was among the speakers who paid... |
Performance of text | Clemence Dane | One of CD
's last plays, Eighty in the Shade, written for Sybil Thorndike
, opened at the Globe Theatre
, London. Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research. 10: 133, 137 |
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... |
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 | For the first volume, she chose A Bill of Divorcement, Till Time Shall End, Scandal at Coventry, Granite, and Wild Decembers. In the preface to this volume she states: For... |
Friends, Associates | Pamela Frankau | Her aunt Eliza Aria
introduced the very young PF
to many of her older, god-like friends: first of all actress Sybil Thorndike
and writers Michael Arlen
and Osbert Sitwell
. Frankau, Pamela. I Find Four People. I. Nicholson and Watson. 133-4 |
Education | Irene Handl | IH
later said she went to hundreds of schools, all of them for about half an hour. I was rebellious. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (23 April 1973): 4 |
Textual Production | Molly Keane | MK
's Treasure Hunt, a comic play co-written with John Perry
, opened in London, starring Sybil Thorndike
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press. 131 Contemporary Authors. Gale Research. 114 |
Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | The friends of EN
's last years, both old and new, included Marshall Steele
, Edward Andrade
, actresses Athene Seyler
and Sybil Thorndike
, and writers Noël Coward
, G. B. Stern
, Lord Dunsany |
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