Sir John Gielgud

Standard Name: Gielgud, Sir John

Connections

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Performance of text Enid Bagnold
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 .
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin.
160-2
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
192
Performance of text Enid Bagnold
After touring the provinces, EB 's play The Last Joke opened at the Phoenix Theatre in London, starring John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson .
Bagnold, Enid. Four Plays. Little, Brown.
85
Friends, Associates Enid Bagnold
During the Second World War EB became friendly with photographer Cecil Beaton (with whom she exchanged plays), Lady Diana Cooper , and actress Dame Edith Evans . Later she also became a friend of MGM
death Enid Bagnold
She was cremated and her ashes interred at Rottingdean. At a memorial service held in November, John Gielgud read the lesson and Vita Sackville-West 's son Nigel Nicolson gave the address. EB 's papers...
Family and Intimate relationships Edith Craig
The actor John Gielgud was EC 's second cousin. On occasion he performed at her Barn Theatre in Kent.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
13
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
251
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...
Textual Production Edith Craig
EC 's articles on theatre include Producing a Play in Munsey's Magazine (June 1907) and Notes on the Costumes in The Kensington (undated).
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
233
An essay entitled Ellen Terry and Henry Irving (28 June 1939)...
Textual Production T. S. Eliot
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...
Textual Features Pam Gems
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...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jane Howard
She finished this novel while living in the house of her friend Ursula Vaughan Williams (its dedicatee) after leaving Kingsley Amis .
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan.
429
She was invited to write the script for its filming by Randal Kleiser
Friends, Associates Naomi Jacob
NJ said one of the greatest influences on her after her mother was the actress Gladys ffolliott .
Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson.
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Her friends in the music-hall and the theatre included a roster of distinguished and less distinguished...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Jennings
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...
Performance of text Molly Keane
She used the pseudonym M. J. Farrell when the play was published by Collins the same year.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
The play opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. Perry had urged her to write it, against...
Textual Production Molly Keane
MK 's next play (again in collaboration with Perry and directed by Gielgud ) was Ducks and Drakes, 1941, published the following year.
Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press.
131
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
114
Material Conditions of Writing Molly Keane
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
Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press.
130
four years later, when Gielgud and...

Timeline

1906: The Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, opened...

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1906

The Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue , opened as one of the tallest and architecturally most impressive theatres in London.

1929: The young actor John Gielgud, after success...

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1929

The young actor John Gielgud , after success in the West End (dating from his role in the stage version of Margaret Kennedy 's The Constant Nymph in 1926), took a cut in income to...

6 January 1931: Lilian Baylis re-opened Sadler's Wells Theatre...

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6 January 1931

Lilian Baylis re-opened Sadler's Wells Theatre in London with a performance of Twelfth Night, starring John Gielgud as Malvolio.

April 1952: John Gielgud directed a production of Macbeth,...

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April 1952

John Gielgud directed a production of Macbeth, starring Ralph Richardson , at .

Autumn 1953: The actor John Gielgud was convicted of persistently...

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Autumn 1953

The actor John Gielgud was convicted of persistently importuning male persons for an immoral purpose, and fined.

1997: The actor John Gielgud, well into his nineties,...

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1997

The actor John Gielgud , well into his nineties, appeared in three films this year.

Texts

Gielgud, Sir John. Early Stages. Falcon, 1948.
Gielgud, Sir John, and Josephine Tey. “Foreword”. Plays by Gordon Daviot, Peter Davies, 1954, p. ix - xii.