£32.50
Date 12/01/1944
London Savoy Theatre – My Sister Eileen – 1944 – Max Bacon
An original wartime theatre programme for My Sister Eileen at the Savoy Theatre, London, dated 12 January 1944.
The cast includes Max Bacon, Coral Browne, Virginia Winter, Carl Lacey, Dorothy Vernon and Ian Fleming in Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov’s comedy about two Ohio sisters chasing success in New York.
Programmes printed in the middle of the Second World War are evocative survivors of West End history and much-loved examples of old theatre programmes.
| Production | My Sister Eileen |
|---|---|
| Venue | Savoy Theatre – London |
| Cast | Max Bacon – Coral Browne, Virginia Winter – Carl Lacey, Dorothy Vernon – Ian Fleming. |
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Condition: V Good, vlcr
Did you know?
- Max Bacon was a dance band drummer with Ambrose’s orchestra before becoming a comic actor known for his comic mangling of English.
- Coral Browne later married Vincent Price and won a BAFTA for An Englishman Abroad, playing herself.
- The comedy later inspired the Leonard Bernstein musical Wonderful Town (1953).
SKU: T02714
