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Nigel Bruce
- Gladys Cooper both produced and starred in the London premiere of the play in 1927 at the Playhouse Theatre where it ran for 60 weeks, including a tour of the provinces. The part of the husband was played by Nigel Bruce.
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"W. Somerset Maugham" The Letter (TV Episode 1969) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The Letter is a 1927 play by W. Somerset Maugham, dramatised from a short story that first appeared in his 1926 collection The Casuarina Tree.
- W. Somerset Maugham
- 1927
With Eileen Atkins, André Morell, Peter Bowles, Ric Young. A planter's wife shoots down a family friend, claiming that he tried to rape her. But someone very close to the dead man holds a letter, in the woman's handwriting, that casts a very different light on the fatal night's events.
- Christopher Morahan
- 1969-06-24
- Drama
- 50
The Letter - Full Cast & Crew. Best Picture nominee is an adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham play about the wife of a rubber-plantation owner in Malaysia who commits a crime of passion,...
- William Wyler
Jun 28, 2012 · Somerset Maugham’s stage adaptation of The Letter debuted in London in 1927, starring Gladys Cooper as rubber plantation wife Leslie Crosbie and Nigel Bruce as plantation manager Robert Crosbie. The play premiered on Broadway later that year starring Katharine Cornell.
Jun 8, 2016 · Maugham's play was last given an airing in the mid-1990s, suggesting something of a revival of interest in Maugham's work, as well as the significance of the plum female role. But, essentially, the play doesn't enthuse or really engage us because it portrays the kind of stereotypical British reserve that belongs to the dim and distant past.
In the middle of the twentieth century, Somerset Maugham's play was the kind of star vehicle that attracted top actresses such as Gladys Cooper in the London premiere, Bette Davis on film and Celia Johnson on TV.
