An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (1969 TV) -- part 2/8

a fine production featuring charming performances by Margaret Leighton and Jeremy Brett.


Margaret Leighton ... Mrs. Cheveley
Keith Michell ... Sir Robert Chiltern
Jeremy Brett ... Vicount Goring
Dinah Sheridan ... Lady Chiltern
Susan Hampshire ... Mabel Chiltern
Charles Carson ... The Earl of Caversham
Zena Dare ... Lady Markby
Magda Miller ... Lady Basildon
Penelope Lee ... Mrs. Marchmont
Michel Fauré ... Vicomte de Nanjac
Erik Chitty ... Phipps
Raymond Graham ... Mason

Bernard Shaw defended Oscar Wilde in 1895, when critics went after "An Ideal Husband". Shaw wrote in "The Saturday Review" (January 12) that the critics assumption that Wilde's

"epigrams can be turned out by the score by any one light-minded enough to condescend to such frivolity. As far as I can ascertain, I am the only person in London who cannot sit down and write an Oscar Wilde play at will.... In a certain sense Mr. Wilde is to me our only thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audience, with the whole theatre".

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• Oscar
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• Ideal
• Husband
• Margaret
• Leighton
• Jeremy
• Brett

[1854wssh]

Thank you so much! One can never get enough of the lovely Jeremy Brett!

[frostylunetta]

I truly adore Margaret Leighton's acting and classy charm.

[081035jb]

@frostylunetta

any possibility of getting the whole production , with this cast of course.?

joe

[lisajason111]

omg the phantasmic brooch disappeared so suddenly... 4:55

[changingowl10]

"I like looking at geniuses" (swings head to stare at Jeremy) "and listening to beautiful people speak."

LOL!! Don't we all? She chose her "beautiful people" well. :DD

[Hartbeat4us]

Margaret Leighton is brilliant ...exceptional actress!

[ningcute2004]

Oh Jeremy...you're such a darling!

[SlakeDragon]

Jeremy Brett looks so hot! xD Seriously, and really skinny too. xDDDDD

[Lytton333]

I love the way the ladies waft their gloved-arms gracefully through the air in a kind of seductively poetic semaphore..