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Wodehouse in Hollywood

15/12/2008

Tony Staveacre - Wodehouse in Hollywood

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PG Wodehouse is taken to Hollywood by a major studio. Is it a match made in heaven?

Writer PG Wodehouse is taken to 1930s Hollywood by a major movie studio. Is it a match made in heaven? Stars Tim McInnerny.

In 1930 MGM shipped PG Wodehouse out West and thrust $104,000 into his hand - in return for zilch. The stories and novels that Wodehouse created out of his Hollywood experience were his satiric riposte to those that had made a dishonest man out of him. Comedy combining Wodehouse's own writing with dramatised fictional scenes by Tony Staveacre. 

PG Wodehouse......Tim McInnerny 
Ethel Wodehouse.....Fenella Woolgar
Sam Marx......Rowe David McClelland 
Dorothy......Fiona Clarke 
Clarence......Declan Wilson
Thalberg/Bobby......Paul Ryder

Directed by Stefan Escreet.

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