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Almost a Honeymoon (play)

Almost a Honeymoon is a 1930 play by Walter Ellis. It debuted at the Garrick Theatre in London and later enjoyed a successful run at the Apollo Theatre. A farce it concerns a young man who has secured a lucrative post in the colonial service. His problem is that the post requires him to be married, and he has just a day to find a woman to be his wife.

Original cast

  • Charles – Hylton Allen/George Relph
  • Bailiff – Christopher Steele
  • Basil Dibley – Gerald Pring
  • Cuthbert de Grey – Lamont Dickinson
  • Mr. Dixon – Edward Thane
  • Taxi Driver – Barry Lyndon
  • Margaret Brent – Grace Lane
  • Rosalie Quilter – Renee Kelly/Mercia Swinburne

Adaptations

The play was twice adapted for film. In 1930 Almost a Honeymoon directed by Monty Banks and starring Clifford Mollison and Dodo Watts and in 1938 Almost a Honeymoon directed by Norman Lee and starring Tommy Trinder and Linden Travers.

References

Bibliography

  • Smith, Leslie. Modern British Farce. Barnes and Noble, 1989.