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Secrets (1922 play)

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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.

It was also adapted for Australian radio in 1925.

London cast (partial)

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Produced by John Eugene Vedrenne

Broadway cast (partial)

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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

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  1. ^ (13 August 1922). The London Stage, The New York Times
  2. ^ (8 October 1922). London Notes, The New York Times
  3. ^ a b Corbin, John (26 December 1922). The Play, The New York Times
  4. ^ 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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