Name Ronald Jeans | ||
Ronald Jeans (10 May 1887 – 16 May 1973) was a British playwright with a career spanning nearly 50 years.
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Early life
Ronald Jeans was born in Oxton, Merseyside, the younger son of Sir Alexander Grigor Jeans (1849–1924), the founder and managing editor of the Liverpool Post and Mercury, and his wife, Ellen Gallon (d. 1889).
Career
According to his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "Between the 1930s and 1955 he was one of the West End's most reliable sources of undemanding, expertly crafted social comedy."
Selected plays
Personal life
On 6 June 1917, he married Margaret Evelyn Wise. They had a son and a daughter, Angela Jeans, an actress and model. She married Henry "Sam" Ainley, a merchant seaman, journalist and restaurateur, but they divorced. Their daughter Clarissa Dalrymple is an art curator.
Jeans died at 14 Eaton Gardens, Hove, on 16 May 1973.