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Michael Denison

Joan Greenwood

Edith Evans

Dorothy Tutin

Margaret Rutherford

Miles Malleson

Richard Wattis

Walter Hudd

Aubrey Mather

Ivor Barnard

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16/10/2004

BBC Two - The Importance of Being Earnest

Edith Evans and Margaret Rutherford star in the classic adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play.

Classic comic drama based on Oscar Wilde's play about two bachelors who each pretend to be the dashing but wholly imaginary Ernest when courting two ladies.

Two bachelors adopt the fictitious personae of the wealthy, eligible and entirely imaginary man named  Ernest in order to court the ladies Gwendolen and Cecily. But events take a confused turn when both girls fall for the charms of their respective Ernests.

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