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Book by Archie Menzies and Max Kester.
Adapted and produced for television by Jack Hulbert.
[Starring] Cicely Courtneidge in a television version of the musical play.
with Thorley Walters
(The television production by arrangement with Jack Hulbert, Val Parnell, and Bernard Delfont and prior to transferring from the Hippodrome to the Saville Theatre)

Contributors

Book by:
Archie Menzies
Book by:
Max Kester
Music:
Manning Sherwin
Music:
Harry Parr-Davies
Adapted and produced for television by/Dances arranged by:
Jack Hulbert
Dances arranged by:
Bert Stimmel
Settings re-designed for television by:
Stephen Bundy
Original designs:
Charles Reading
Dress designs:
Berkeley Sutcliffe
Musicians:
Saville Theatre Orchestra
Musicians directed by:
Robert Probst
Producer in charge:
Kenneth M. Buckley
British Embassy Staff - Ward:
Douglas Quayle
British Embassy Staff - Pitman:
Peter Ducrow
British Embassy Staff - Miss Fothergill:
Dorothy Stuart
British Embassy Staff - Counsellor Thomas Blore:
John Stevens
Mrs. Payne:
Letty Craydon
Jimmy Denham, the Commercial Attache:
Thorley Walters
Wilson, a footman:
John Baker
Mary Cresset, Denham's secretary:
Margaret McGrath
Senor Riazza, the meat king:
Austin Trevor
Margaretta, his daughter:
Sandra Martin
Her Excellency Lady Frances Maxwell:
Cicely Courtneidge
Valese, her maid:
Joyce Cornish
Labour Permit:
David Birks
Martin Nash, the American Ambassador:
Patrick Barr
A woman reporter:
Letty Craydon
Bill, a Texan:
John Probert
The Bull:
Billy Dainty
Principal Dancer:
Louisa Lewis
Dancer:
Hazel Coward
Dancer:
Pat Britten
Dancer:
Eleanor Fazan
Dancer:
Diane Holland
Dancer:
Arlette Vann
Dancer:
Letitia Montford
Dancer:
Aleta Morrison
Dancer:
Mavis Peterson
Dancer:
Brenda Ralston
Dancer:
Joan Charlton
Dancer:
Daphne Johnson
Dancer:
Billy Dainty
Dancer:
John Gregory
Dancer:
Frank Ward
Dancer:
George Baron

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