Michael Clayton Hutton

Michael Clayton Hutton was a British author and playwright notable for several plays that appeared in the West End during the post-Second World War era.^[1] He died in 1953 at the age of thirty three.^[2] He was reportedly suffering from depression when he committed suicide.^[3] Several of his plays were adapted for film and television including The Happy Family that was turned into a 1952 film of the same title.^[4] He had a posthumous success in the West End with his comedy Silver Wedding in 1957.^[5]

Michael Clayton Hutton
Died	21 August 1953 England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Playwright

Selected works

• Power Without Glory (1947)
• The Happy Family (1951)
• Dead Secret (1952)
• Starlight (1956)
• Silver Wedding (1957)