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A play for television by Robert H. Webber and Guy Elmes.
[Starring] Andrew Osborn, Mark Dignam and Sonia Holm

The action of the play, which is based on a story by Robert H. Webber, takes place in Milan. Mantua, and Genoa at the end of the 15th century.

(Second performance on Thursday at 8.30 p.m.)
(Sonia Holm appears by permission of J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd.; Andrew Osborn of Maurice Ostrer)

Contributors

Writer:
Robert H. Webber
Writer:
Guy Elmes
Producer:
Michael Barry
Assisted by:
Basil Adams
Production designer:
Barry Learoyd
Incidental Music:
James Hartley
Duke Ludovico Sforza, tyrant of Milan:
Ballard Berkeley
Leonardo da Vinci:
Mark Dignam
Lucrezia Crevelli, a mistress of the Duke:
Sonia Holm
Cecilia Gallerani:
Rosamund Greenwood
Bellincioni, a court poet:
Harold Young
The Duchess of Mantua:
Elsa Palmer
Duchess Maria Fortunato Gonzaga, her daughter:
Sheila Shand Gibbs
Gian Donato, a young Genoese:
Andrew Osborn
Father Angelo:
Stanley Drewitt
Andrea Salai, da Vinci's servant:
Victor Baring
Mario D'Oggionno:
John Benson
Ambrogio Preda/City Councillor:
Richard Hurndall
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio:
John Garley
City Councillor:
John Garley
Vicomte de Tassigny, a French officer:
Hugh Latimer
Maid-in-Waiting to Maria:
Maria Brooks
Tavern keeper/City Councillor:
Victor Platt
A Milanese Nobleman:
William Mervyn
A priest:
Leslie Wright
Other parts played by:
Patrick Keogh
Other parts played by:
Robert Berkeley
Other parts played by:
Edna Fryer
Other parts played by:
Pamela Skiff
Other parts played by:
Musetta Fonnereau
Other parts played by:
Marguerite Young

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