When We Are Married

When We Are Married (1938)


  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 1938-11-16
  • Runtime: 2h 25min
  • Production Company: BBC
  • Director: Philip Dorté

Summary

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.

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  • Mae Bacon

    as Lottie Grady

  • Ernest Butcher

    as Herbert Soppitt

  • George Carney

    as Henry Ormonroyd

  • Ethel Coleridge

    as Clara Soppitt

  • B. Marsh Dunn

    as Mayor of Clecklewyke

  • Betty Fleetwood

    as Nancy Holmes

  • Muriel George

    as Maria Helliwell

  • Alexander Grandison

    as Fred Dyson

  • Raymond Huntley

    as Councillor Albert Parker

  • Lloyd Pearson

    as Alderman Joseph Halliwell

  • Helena Pickard

    as Annie Parker

  • Beatrice Varley

    as Mrs. Northrop

  • Richard Warner

    as Gerald Forbes

  • Norman Wooland

    as Rev. Clement Mercer

  • Patricia Hayes

    as Ruby Birtle
Production Basil Dean Producer
Directing Philip Dorté Director
Writing J. B. Priestley Writer

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