Secrets (1922 play)
Secrets is a 1922 play by Rudolf Besier and May Edginton.
The play first opened in London at the Comedy Theatre on September 7, 1922, starring Fay Compton and Leon Quartermaine.[1][2]
Secrets opened in New York at the Fulton Theatre on December 25, 1922, and ran through May 1923, for 168 performances.[3][4]
The play was also adapted for films released in 1924 and 1933.
London cast (partial)
Produced by John Eugene Vedrenne
- Fay Compton as Lady Carlton
- Doris Mansell as Lady Lessington
- Margaret Scudamore as Mrs. Marlowe
- Hubert Harben as William Marlowe
- Bobbie Andrews as John Carlton
Broadway cast (partial)
Directed by Sam Forrest and produced by Sam H. Harris
- Margaret Lawrence as Lady Carlton
- Barbara Allen as Lady Lessington
- Mrs. Edmund Gurney as Mrs. Marlowe
- Orlando Daly as William Marlowe
- Tom Nesbit as John Carlton
- Allan Jenkins as Briggs
- Beatrice Kay as Blanche[3]
References
- (13 August 1922). The London Stage, The New York Times
- (8 October 1922). London Notes, The New York Times
- Corbin, John (26 December 1922). The Play, The New York Times
- Bordman, Gerald. American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama 1914-1930, p. 198 (1995)("The play's five-month run silenced pundits who sneered that Broadway would never accept so gentle, undramatic an evening.")
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