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The Shining Hour (play)

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Written by
  
Keith Winter

Original language
  
English

Playwright
  
Keith Winter

Adaptations
  
The Shining Hour (1938)

Date premiered
  
February 13, 1934

First performance
  
13 February 1934

Genre
  
Drama

Place premiered
  
Booth Theatre

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Setting
  
Elizabethan farmhouse living room in Yorkshire

The Shining Hour is a 1934 Broadway three-act drama written by Keith Winter, produced by Max Gordon and staged by Raymond Massey with scenic design created by Aubrey Hammond. It ran for 121 performances from February 13, 1934 to May 1934 at the Booth Theatre. This was Gladys Cooper's Broadway debut. Raymond Massey and Adrianne Allen were a married couple at this time.

The play was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1933-1934.

It was adapted into the 1938 film The Shining Hour directed by Frank Borzage and starring Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Margaret Sullavan and Melvyn Douglas.

Cast

  • Adrianne Allen as Judy Linden
  • Gladys Cooper as Mariella Linden
  • Marjorie Fielding as Hannah Linden
  • Raymond Massey as David Linden
  • Cyril Raymond as Henry Linden
  • Derek Williams as Mickey Linden
  • References

    The Shining Hour (play) Wikipedia