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PLAY OF THE WEEK [ITV, 1956-66]: The DEATH OF BESSIE SMITH
(1965)
- Copyright date
- Not available
- Production start date
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- Production end date
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Production countries
- Great Britain
- Notes
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NFA Catalogue
A televised version of the play by Edward Albee. One of the world's greatest blues singers, Bessie Smith, died on September 26th 1937 as the result of a car accident, on the outskirts of Memphis, Tennessee. Albee's play gives his version of the events that took place that evening.
Top five credits
- Director
- AMYES, Julian
- Production Company
- Granada Television
- Based on the play by
- ALBEE, Edward
- Designed by
- STONEHOUSE, Roy
Top five cast
- nurse
- ENGLISH, Patricia
- Jack
- CAMERON, Earl
- orderly
- SCOTT, Harold
- father
- AYRES, Robert
- intern
- SUTHERLAND, Donald