Almost a Honeymoon (play)

Almost a Honeymoon is a 1930 play by Walter Ellis.^[1] It debuted at the Garrick Theatre in London and later enjoyed a successful run at the Apollo Theatre.^[2] A farce it concerns a young man who has secured a lucrative post in the colonial service. His problem is that the post requires him to be married, and he has just a day to find a woman to be his wife.

Original cast

• Charles – Hylton Allen/George Relph
• Bailiff – Christopher Steele
• Basil Dibley – Gerald Pring
• Cuthbert de Grey – Lamont Dickinson
• Mr. Dixon – Edward Thane
• Taxi Driver – Barry Lyndon
• Margaret Brent – Grace Lane
• Rosalie Quilter – Renee Kelly/Mercia Swinburne

Adaptations

The play was twice adapted for film. In 1930 Almost a Honeymoon directed by Monty Banks and starring Clifford Mollison and Dodo Watts and in 1938 Almost a Honeymoon directed by Norman Lee and starring Tommy Trinder and Linden Travers.^[3][4]

References

1. Wearing, J. P. (15 May 2014). The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810893047 – via Google Books.
2. Smith p.232
3. "Almost a Honeymoon (1930) - | Cast and Crew". AllMovie.
4. "Almost a Honeymoon (1938) - Norman Lee | Cast and Crew". AllMovie.

Bibliography

• Smith, Leslie. Modern British Farce. Barnes and Noble, 1989.