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| studio = [[Australian Broadcasting Commission]] |
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| distributor =ABC |
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| released = 31 October 1962 (Melbourne)<ref name="age">{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ETpVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RpUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7100%2C4101618|date=25 October 1962|page=14|title=Happy People Supply Conflict in 2 Plays}}</ref> |
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==Plot== |
==Plot== |
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Lysette returns to London after three unsuccessful marriages to look up her cousin's husband, publisher Felix Pilgrim. He is married to Virgilia, but has an affair with Lysette. |
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==Cast== |
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*[[Walter Sullivan (actor)|Walter Sullivan]] as Felix Pilgrim |
*[[Walter Sullivan (actor)|Walter Sullivan]] as Felix Pilgrim |
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*[[Patricia Kennedy (actress)|Patricia Kennedy]] as Virgilia Pilgrim |
*[[Patricia Kennedy (actress)|Patricia Kennedy]] as Virgilia Pilgrim |
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*[[Mary Ward (actress)|Mary Ward]] as Lysette |
*[[Mary Ward (actress)|Mary Ward]] as Lysette Eggerton |
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*Moira Carleton as Chrissie, the Piglrims' retained |
*Moira Carleton as Chrissie, the Piglrims' retained |
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*Beverley Dunn |
*Beverley Dunn as Peggy, Felix's secretary |
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*Joy Mitchell |
*Joy Mitchell |
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*[[Campbell Copelin]] |
*[[Campbell Copelin]] |
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Revision as of 11:42, 3 May 2020
| Marriage Lines | |
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| Produced by | Christopher Muir |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | ABC |
Release date | 31 October 1962 (Melbourne)[1] |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Marriage Lines is a 1962 Australian television play which was directed by Christopher Muir. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[2]
Plot
Lysette returns to London after three unsuccessful marriages to look up her cousin's husband, publisher Felix Pilgrim. He is married to Virgilia, but has an affair with Lysette.
Cast
- Walter Sullivan as Felix Pilgrim
- Patricia Kennedy as Virgilia Pilgrim
- Mary Ward as Lysette Eggerton
- Moira Carleton as Chrissie, the Piglrims' retained
- Beverley Dunn as Peggy, Felix's secretary
- Joy Mitchell
- Campbell Copelin
Reception
The Australian Woman's Weekly TV critic called the production "a half-and-half job. Christopher Muir's production was satisfyingly polished; the play itself was woeful. The ABC decided to advertise this offering as a "sophisticated comedy." The theme—one woman trying to snaffle another's husband— can be funny, I suppose. But "Marriage Lines" was a melodrama of mothball manners... the cast had to battle with curiously dated dialogue... [a] sheer waste of good production and a goodish cast. "Marriage Lines" should have been murdered. Preferably at the dress rehearsal, if not before."[3]
References
- ^ "Happy People Supply Conflict in 2 Plays". The Age. 25 October 1962. p. 14.
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
- ^ "GOOD PRODUCTION, GOOD CAST, BAD PLAY". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 30, no. 28. 12 December 1962. p. 19. Retrieved 8 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
External links
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