The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 1 of 11

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'The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde

Gary Bond ... John Worthing, JP
Jeremy Clyde ... Algernon Moncrieff
Alan Hay ... Lane

Directed by Michael Attenborough (stage) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (TV)

It was broadcasted on US television in 1985 (when I recorded in on this VHS tape), and that is the date given in several references, but it was originally produced in 1981.

This production has never been commercially available for purchase in any media format.

Oscar Wilde was famous as a dazzling personality and sparking conversationalist, but he wasn't described by his contemporaries as acting like one of his characters in his plays, tho.

Max Beerbohm told S.N. Behrman: "Well, in the beginning he was the most enchanting company, don't you know. His conversation was so simple and natural and flowing--not at all epigrammatic, which would have been unbearable. He saved that for his plays, thank heaven."

W.H. Auden writes (reviewing a collection of Wilde's letters):

The post-prison letters are more interesting than the pre-prison. To begin with, Wilde is now a lonely man, without an audience of his social and intellectual equals, so he puts into his letters what in happier times he would have expressed in talk, and the reader gets glimpses of what his conversation must have been like:

"I assure you that the type-writing machine, when played with expression, is not more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or a near relation. Indeed many, among those most devoted to domesticity, prefer it."

"The sea and sky one opal, no horrid drawing-master's line between them, just one fishing boat, going slowly, and drawining the wind after it."

"Cows are very fond of being photographed, and, unlike architecture, don't move."

"The automobile was delightful, but, of course, it broke down: they, like all machines, are more wilful than animals--nervous, irritable, strange things: I am going to write an article on "nerves in the inorganic world."

"....the Blessed St. Robert of Phillimore, Lover and Martyr--a saint known in 'Hagiographia' for his extraordinary power, not in resisting, but in supplying temptations to others. This he did in the solitude of great cities, to which he retired at the comparatively early age of eight."

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[LEGOMANIAC419]

"Don't touch the cucumber sandwiches! Their for Aunt Augusta!"

"You've been chompin' 'em down."

"That's different--she's MY aunt."

Lol'd.

[Romeowasbleeding1]

@Nerdzz100

Boring??????

This is fantastic!

[ReindeerOfTheRoc123]

@ElGingerNinja GCSE last year.

[SivVulk]

if anyone would like a copy of this particular edition on DVD I can make one for you!

[ElGingerNinja]

whos doing this for AS level drama?

[DamnHotChocolate]

@TheLightsandcandy im playing cecily in my school play, too! :D

[Sword1479]

We just started reading this in Drama. Oscar Wilde was a genius.

[Sixalienasa]

@burf69 Locoweed surely!



[cooliosurfer1]

I got high as fuckkkk and I just kept imagining that they stewie saying all this with his friends lol

[MrSaqr98]

thank you

[TheLightsandcandy]

@anonymoussourceLOL im playing Cecily in *my* school play! :D