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Fantastic Summer
1955 British TV series or programme From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fantastic Summer is a 1955 British television play based on a novel by Dorothy Macardle adapted by Barry Learoyd.[1][2]
It was Marilyn James' first television appearance.[3] It was also Fay Compton's "first full scale TV appearance" since The Foolish Gentleman in 1953.[4]
Compton called the script "exceptionally good."[5]
Mairlyn James broke her ankle during filming after she tripped over a cable, but she continued the performance without the audience being aware.[6]
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Cast
- Fay Compton as Virgilia Wilde
- Margaret Boyd as Brigid Reece
- Ian Fleming as Dr. Bernard Franks
- Ronald Lewis as Perry Franks
- Marilyn James as Nan Wilde
- Peter Murphy as Timeen
- Mary Laura Wood as Sal Vaughan
- Simon Lack as Garret Ingram
- Jessica Dunning as Pamela Ingram
- Derek Sydney as Carlo Ferrari
Reception
The Guardian called it "easy to watch, exciting at times."[7]
The Manchester Evening News called it "flatly written and too slight."[8]
The Daily Telegraph felt "this was a play so disjointed, so flatly written and so long to working up to any sort of situation that it seemed to be double its length."[9]
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