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C B GILFORD
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Any Body For Tea? Bull In A China Shop Jury Room Lost Flight Who Dunit? Widow's MiteAny Body For Tea?
Synopsis:
Detective Dennis O'Finn, investigating the death of an elderly lady, discovers that he is the motive for murder. Six sweet but slightly balmy ladies are all in love with their bachelor neighbor, the handsome, forty-ish, O'Finn. To lure him to visit, they stage a homicide. But to keep him around, they must do it again!
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Bakers Plays, Boston, Ma, -
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Genre:
Mystery Comedy, 30 min Mystery
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Male: 3 Female: 6 Other: -
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Top of PageBull In A China Shop
Synopsis:
When a houseful of sweet little old ladies discover that a handsome bachelor lives across the street, they are delighted. When they learn that he is none other than Detective Dennis O'Finn, of Homicide, they are faced with the problem of how to attract his attention. The answer is simplicity itself: a nice, genteel homicide with a cup of tea as the murder weapon. When a brash young woman reporter begins to suspect the truth, she becomes the next target. O'Finn is terribly embarrassed when at last he discovers that he himself is the motive for these madcap goings-on, and, in desperation, manages to solve the case. But the dear old ladies are too fond of him and in the end they turn the tables on him! First a short story in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, later a success on alfred Hitchcock Presents, and now a stage veteran of hundreds of performances around the country, Bull in a China Shop continues to enchant audiences everywhere!
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Bakers Plays, Boston, Ma, -
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Genre:
Mystery Comedy Mystery
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Male: 5 Female: 7 Other: -
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Top of PageJury Room
Synopsis:
Twelve jurors gather to decide the innocence or guilt of a young girl. Did she stab her uncle in cold blood? Eleven jurors say Yes - one, a student actress, says No. The jurors agree to her request to re-enact the crime right there. Props are brought in - including the actual murder weapon. The actress becomes the accused. The foreman takes the part of the murdered man, and as the re-enactment proceeds, some people begin to lose themselves in their parts. It's a tense situation, for if the girl did not kill her uncle - who did? Could it even be one of the characters on stage? The verdict, the solution, and the climax of the play arrive together in a single, smashing conclusion!
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Play/Drama
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Top of PageLost Flight
Synopsis:
all of the action occurs in the lounge section of an airliner on a night flight
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Genre:
3 acts Play/Drama
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Male: 7 Female: 7 Other: -
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Top of PageWho Dunit?
Synopsis:
It first ran as a short story in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and was later a hit on alfred Hitchcock Presents , translated into a dozen foreign languages, reprinted in several anthologies. What happens when a famous mystery writer is murdered, goes to Heaven and discover's that not even St. Michael knows who murdered him? There's only one answer: Saint Michael sends him back to earth to relive the past twenty-four hours of his life in order to solve the murder before it is committed. The writer discovers everybody he knows has a good reason to kill him! and then - is he just going to sit there and let it happen a second time? So the writer must outwit both the murderer and the archangel Michael.
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Genre:
Mystery Comedy Mystery
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Male: 5 Female: 7 Other: -
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Top of PageWidow's Mite
Synopsis:
Mrs. Owen is not only tired of the rundown boarding house where she has lived since her husband's death, but she is also fed up with the nagging landlady, and sure that she cannot get down another mouthful of the boiled codfish that passes for dinner each evening. Withdrawing her last two hundred odd dollars from the bank (and packing up the million dollars in worthless "Kingdom of albania" bonds which her late husband has bought for five hundred dollars), she moves out, takes a cab to the posh Lakeside Hotel, and strides up to the desk like a great lady. Making a considerable show of seeing to it that her "securities" are sealed in an envelope and locked in the safe, she passes herself off as a woman of wealth-and the management is only too glad to extend whatever credit she desires. This proves to be quite a bit, and when the manager confronts her with the need to cash in her supposedly valuable bonds and pay up, she deftly puts him off by making him, and the others on the staff who have befriended her, her equal heirs. She advises them that the time to sell is not yet ripe, but as her debts grow steadily larger they begin to lose their nerve-and cannot resist steaming open the envelope containing her bonds, much to their shock and dismay. Obviously she must go-but where? To a rival hotel, of course, to repay them for the time when they referred a destitute Maharajah to the Lakeside. after that, who knows but there are plenty of hotels in town, and lots of impression-able people just waiting to be taken in by such a nice little old lady.
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written by C.B. Gilford And Elizabeth Gibson. Based on A story by C.B. Gilford
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Genre:
Comedy One act
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Male: 5 Female: 4 Other: -
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