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Dodie Smith

DODIE SMITH

  (1896 - 1990)
Nationality:    English
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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.

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below is a list of Dodie Smith's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Amateur Means Lover         Autumn Crocus         Bonnet Over the Windmill         British Talent         Call It A Day         Dear Octopus         I Capture the Caste         Letter From Paris         Lovers and Friends         Service         these People, Those Books         Touch Wood

Amateur Means Lover

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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1st Produced:
Liverpool    1961

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1962   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Autumn Crocus

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.

Notes:
by Dosie Smith. Originally produced under the pseudonym C L Anthony

1st Produced:
-    1931

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1st Published:
Samuel French Ltd, London   -

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Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Bonnet Over the Windmill

Synopsis:
Three aspiring actresses try to get the attention of a playwright

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1st Produced:
-    1937

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British Talent

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1st Produced:
Three Arts Club, London    1924

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Genre:
One act

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Call It A Day

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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1st Produced:
-    1935

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1st Published:
(French's Acting Edition No. 1830), 1937   -

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Genre:
Comedy in Three Acts Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  11            Other:  -

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Dear Octopus

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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1st Produced:
-    1938

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1939   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy in Three Acts Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  12            Other:  -

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I Capture the Caste

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

Notes:
from her novel

1st Produced:
Grand, Bac Kpool    19 Jan 1954

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
2 act romantic comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 54.57

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Letter From Paris

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"

Notes:
Based on the novel: "the Reverberator" by Henry James

1st Produced:
Theatre Royal, Brighton    12 Aug 1952

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Heinemann (1954)   B0006D9796

Music:
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Genre:
3 act play

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 52.222

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Lovers and Friends

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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1st Produced:
-    1943

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1st Published:
Samuel French Ltd, London 1947   -

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Service

Synopsis:
How the Service family owners of a large department store cope with the Great Depression

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1st Produced:
Wyndhams Theatre, London    1932

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Famous Plays of 1932 -1933" published by Victor Gollancz 1933   -

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Genre:
Drama

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these People, Those Books

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1st Produced:
Leeds    1958

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Touch Wood

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
-    1934

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Three Plays by Dodie Smith" published by Heinemann 1939   -

Music:
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