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by Lula Vollmer.
[Starring] Sybil Thorndike
The scene is Widow Cagle's cabin in the mountains of Western North Carolina - June, 1917.
(Sybil Thorndike and Betty Jardine appear by permission of Stephen Mitchell)
(to 16.25)

Contributors

Author:
Lula Vollmer
Production:
George More O'Ferrall
Widow Cagle:
Sybil Thorndike
Pap Todd:
Finlay Currie
Emmy:
Betty Jardine
Bud:
Frederick Peisley
Sheriff Weeks:
Edmund Willard
Rufe Cagle:
Andre Morell
The Preacher:
Harry Hutchinson
The Stranger:
Anthony Quayle

The Vic-Wells Ballet (under the direction of Ninette de Valois) present...
A ballet based on the fairy story by Perrault.
The Augmented BBC Television Orchestra
Leader, Boris Pecker
Conducted by Constant Lambert
(to 22.30)

Contributors

Author:
null Perrault
Original choreography:
Marius Petipa
Re-produced by:
Nicolai Sergueeff
Music:
null Tchaikovsky
Costumes:
Nadia Benois
Settings:
Malcolm Baker-Smith
Musicians:
The BBC Television Orchestra
Leader:
Boris Pecker
Conductor:
Constant Lambert
Narration:
Lydia Lopokova
Presentation:
Elizabeth Cowell
King Florestan XXIV:
William Chappell
The Queen:
Joy Newton
Master of Ceremonies:
Claude Newman
Princess Aurora:
Margot Fonteyn
Prince Charming:
Robert Helpmann
Carabosse (the Wicked Fairy):
Sheila McCarthy
The Lilac Fairy:
June Brae
The Diamond Fairy:
Pamela May
The Fairy Gold:
Jill Gregory
The Fairy Silver:
Jean Bedells
The Fairy Sapphire:
Julia Farron
Puss-in-Boots:
Frederick Ashton
The White Cat:
Molly Brown
The Blue Birds:
Mary Honer
The Blue Birds:
Harold Turner
Red Riding Hood:
Margaret Dale
The Wolf:
Frank Staff
Cinderella:
Elizabeth Miller
Prince Fortune:
Richard Ellis

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