Dorothy Brandon
Dorothy Brandon was a British playwright active in the interwar years. Her greatest West End success was the 1923 medical drama The Outsider[1] which was revived several times, and adapted into films on three occasions.[2]
An earlier hit was 1917's Wild Heather which ran at the Strand Theatre for 79 performances.[3] It was also made into a film.[4] A 1926 play Blind Alley was less successful, running for thirteen performances.[5]
Selected plays
- Wild Heather (1917)
- Araminta Arrives (1921)
- The Outsider (1923)
- Blind Alley (1926)
References
- Wearing The London Stage 1920-1929. p.231-32
- Goble p.899
- Gale p.198
- Goble p.1017
- Gale p.206
Bibliography
- Gale, Maggie. West End Women: Women and the London Stage 1918 - 1962. Routledge, 2008.
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
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