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Terence Rattigan wrote many screenplays, including a number of adaptations of his own plays. For the film of The Browning Version, he won the 1951 Cannes Film Festival Award for best screenplay.In ...
Oct 21, 2016 · After a career in the theatre spanning five decades, Terence Rattigan is now recognised as one of the finest playwrights of the 20th century. Having written ...
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Cause Célèbre or A Woman of Principle is a 1975 radio play, and the final play by the English author Terence Rattigan. It was inspired by the trial of Alma Rattenbury and her teenage lover in 1935 for the murder of her third husband Francis Rattenbury and first broadcast by the BBC on 27 October 1975. Alma was played by Diana Dors.
Sep 18, 2013 · Terence Rattigan is an acclaimed British playwright whose work spanned the middle of the 20 th century, when British tastes and politics were changing dramatically. Born in London in 1911 to Frank and Vera Rattigan, an influential diplomat and his wife, Rattigan’s early years were spent in considerable luxury, a lifestyle that would echo in Rattigan’s plays.
Separate Tables. First edition (publ. Hamish Hamilton, 1955) Separate Tables is the collective name of two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, both taking place in the Beauregard Private Hotel, Bournemouth, on the south coast of England. The first play, titled Table by the Window, focuses on the troubled relationship between a disgraced Labour ...
Flare Path. Flare Path is a play by Terence Rattigan, written in 1941 and first staged in 1942. [1] Set in a hotel near an RAF Bomber Command airbase during the Second World War, the story involves a love triangle between a pilot, his actress wife and a famous film star. The play is based in part on Rattigan's own wartime experiences, [2] and ...
A Clifton Productions and Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions, 1958. Co-adapted from his own play with John Gay, Rattigan was nominated for his second Academy Award for Best Screenplay for 'Separate Tables'. However, two of its stars, David Niven and Wendy Hillier, both won Academy Awards for their acting performances.
