Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners.
Starring Edith Evans as Lady Bracknell, Joan Greenwood as The Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax, Dorothy Tutin as Cecily Cardew, Michael Redgrave as John Worthing,
Michael Denison as Algernon Moncrieff
with Margaret Rutherford as Miss Prism, Miles Malleson as Canon Chasuble

Two wealthy bachelors, John and Algernon, use the imaginary name 'Ernest' when courting Gwendolen and Cecily, but are shocked when both girls fall for 'Ernest's' charms. In the subsequent confusion it is revealed which man is really 'earnest'.