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...
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,...