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The Shining Hour (play)

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The Shining Hour
Written byKeith Winter
Date premieredFebruary 13, 1934
Place premieredBooth Theatre
New York City, New York
Original languageEnglish
GenreDrama
SettingElizabethan farmhouse living room in Yorkshire

The Shining Hour is a 1934 Broadway three-act drama written by Keith Winter, produced by Max Gordon and staged by Raymond Massey with scenic design created by Aubrey Hammond. It ran for 121 performances from February 13, 1934, to May 1934 at the Booth Theatre. This was Gladys Cooper's Broadway debut. Raymond Massey and Adrianne Allen were a married couple at this time.

The play was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1933–1934.

It was adapted into the 1938 film The Shining Hour directed by Frank Borzage and starring Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Margaret Sullavan and Melvyn Douglas.

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