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DODIE SMITH (1896 - 1990) |
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Nationality: English Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Laurence Fitch Ltd |
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright. Smith is best known for her novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians.
Plays by Dodie Smith
Amateur Means Lover | ||
| 1st Produced: | Liverpool | 1961 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1962 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32581 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | A London boarding house. A new tenant arrives Courtney Kemble. He is evasive about his past - hinting that for years he has been looking after an invalid mother. Courtney has a strange effect on the tenants and somehow sorts out there problems and love lives. It is then discovered that Courtney and his wife were great Shakespearean actors on the brink on stardom when she took ill and he had to nurse her for ten years until her death. | |||||
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Autumn Crocus | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1931 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Ltd, London | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95811 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 8 | ||
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Notes: | by Dosie Smith. Originally produced under the pseudonym C L Anthony | |||||
Synopsis: | A school teacher on holiday in the Austrian Tyrol falls in love with the owner of the hotel - not knowing that he is married with a child. | |||||
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Bonnet Over The Windmill | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1937 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131687 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Three aspiring actresses try to get the attention of a playwright | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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British Talent | ||
| 1st Produced: | Three Arts Club, London | 1924 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131688 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Call It A Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1935 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | (French's Acting Edition No. 1830), 1937 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32582 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy in Three Acts Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 11 | ||
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Synopsis: | Sixteen hours in the lives of Roger and Dorothy Hilton. He falls in love and out again with a client. She dallies with a rubber planter. The son with the girl next door. One daughter with a married artist and the other obtains a Rossetti drawing. | |||||
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Dear Octopus | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1938 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1939 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32583 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy in Three Acts Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 12 | ||
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Synopsis: | four generations arrive to celebrate golden wedding anniversary, the Family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor really wish to | |||||
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I Capture The Caste | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grand, Backpool | 19 Jan 1954 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32584 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act romantic comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 | ||
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Notes: | from her novel | |||||
Synopsis: | The Mortmain family are staying at a converted Norman castle. The new heir to the estate, Simon, an American arrives with friend Neil arrive to view his inheritance. Neill falls for one of the daughters, Rose, but decides against pursuing the matter because he does not want to be tied to England. Simon, however, does propose to Rose and she accepts as she believes his money will help her family. One day, Cassandra, the other daughter, is alone with Simon and she realises that she is in love with him. Just before her sister's wedding Rose arrives with Neil- they can no longer deny their love for each other and they plan to marry. Which leaves Simon and Cassandra to settle things between them | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 54.57 | |||||
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Letter From Paris | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal, Brighton | 12 Aug 1952 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Ltd, London | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95812 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Based on the novel: "The Reverberator" by Henry James | |||||
Synopsis: | A rich American family have gone to Paris for the season. They are befriended by another American a journalist who has a weekly gossip column called "Letter From Paris" | |||||
Further Reference: | Wearing 52.222 | |||||
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Lovers and Friends | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1943 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Ltd, London 1947 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131689 | |||
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Synopsis: | Two young people meet and get married in 1918. By 1930 the husband wants to get out of the marriage and remarry | |||||
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Service | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wyndhams Theatre, London | 1932 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Famous Plays of 1932 -1933" published by Victor Gollancz 1933 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131690 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | How the Service family owners of a large department store cope with the Great Depression | |||||
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These People, Those Books | ||
| 1st Produced: | Leeds | 1958 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32585 | |||
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Touch Wood | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1934 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Three Plays by Dodie Smith" published by Heinemann 1939 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131691 | |||
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