£28.50
Date 12/01/1944
London Savoy Theatre – My Sister Eileen – 1944
An original wartime theatre programme for My Sister Eileen at the Savoy Theatre, London, dated 12 January 1944.
Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov’s comedy follows two sisters from Ohio trying to make it in New York’s Greenwich Village. The cast includes Coral Browne, Max Bacon, Virginia Winter, Carl Lacey, Dorothy Vernon and Ian Fleming.
West End programmes printed during the Second World War are evocative survivors 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, cfld, lcr, nof
Did you know?
- The play is based on Ruth McKenney’s humorous New Yorker stories about life with her sister Eileen.
- It was later turned into the Leonard Bernstein musical Wonderful Town (1953).
- The Ian Fleming in this cast is the Australian-born character actor, who played Dr Watson in 1930s Sherlock Holmes films, not the James Bond author.
SKU: T02704
