The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 9 of 11

"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde

A 1985 TV broadcast featuring the formidable and hilarious Lady Bracknell by Dame Wendy Hiller.

link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "The Importance Of Being Earnest":
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=749CF199F94D9B7F

Jeremy Clyde ... Algernon Moncrieff
Ann Thornton ... Cecily Cardew
Gabrielle Drake ... Gwendolen Fairfax
Sydney Arnold ... Merriman
Gary Bond ... John Worthing, JP

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

This production 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.

from Oscar Wilde's "The Decay of Lying":

"The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society."

"We are a degraded race and have sold our birthright for a mess of facts."

"No great artist ever sees things asa they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

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• Oscar-Wilde
• Wendy-Hiller
• Ann-Thornton
• Gary-Bond
• Jeremy-Clyde
• Gabrielle-Drake
• play
• theatre
• comedy
• wit

[ornleifs]

This play is the greatest ever, brilliantly written and overflowing with wonderful wit and irony.

[phantomroxsox]

they have been eating muffins.... that must be a sign of repentance.

[dongjunh]

I simply worship Wendy Hiller!

[ShmelevJr]

..vaccination, legislation, confirmation - and the measles. The English and German varieties.

[goodluckpeace44]

yeah I like her stress and unstress

[minhlefellinatree]

<3  .

[DanTheMan9886]

Have to Admire Lady Bracknell's articulation and pronuciations is great but I see what you mean...it's lkike she is not acting like the proper manner should of that time she is not as 'strict in her manner f speaking...it's more fluent than I believe was originally conceived! sorry I am music and theater major.

[Mysteriousbox]

lady bracknell is poorly acted in this version