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When We Are Married (1938)
Directed by Philip Dorté
Comedy · 2h 25m
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. The first play in history to ever be televised complete and unedited direct from the theatre. It is now believed to be lost. The BBC would make another television film version of this play in 1949 with several of the same actors from this film including Raymond Huntley, Ernest Butcher, Patricia Hayes, George Carney and Lloyd Pearson.
Cast
M
Mae Bacon
Lottie Grady
Ernest Butcher
Herbert Soppitt
George Carney
Henry Ormonroyd
E
Ethel Coleridge
Clara Soppitt
B
B. Marsh Dunn
Mayor of Clecklewyke
B
Betty Fleetwood
Nancy Holmes
M
Muriel George
Maria Helliwell
A
Alexander Grandison
Fred Dyson
Raymond Huntley
Councillor Albert Parker
Lloyd Pearson
Alderman Joseph Halliwell
Helena Pickard
Annie Parker
Beatrice Varley
Mrs. Northrop
Crew
- Director
- Philip Dorté
- Writer
- J. B. Priestley
- Producer
- Basil Dean
Details
- Release date
- 1938-11-16
- Runtime
- 2h 25m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Production
- BBC