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Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan CBE (10 June 1911 – 30 November 1977) was a British dramatist and screenwriter. He was one of England's most popular mid-20th-century dramatists.
Terence Rattigan is one of Britain’s greatest playwrights. He was born on 10 June 1911 and educated at Harrow (Scholar) from 1925-1930 and Trinity College, Oxford (History Scholarship) to 1933. By 1934 he had become a full-time playwright.
May 20, 2019 · The first author ever to have had two plays (French Without Tears and While the Sun Shines) run for more than one thousand performances each on London’s West End, Terence Rattigan (10 June 1911 – 30 November 1977) was one of the most commercially successful playwrights in theater history.
Terence Rattigan. Writer: Separate Tables. Terence Mervyn Rattigan was born in London on June 10, 1911, the son of a career diplomat and serial philanderer whose indiscretions resulted in his being cashiered by the Foreign Office.
Based on his television play written four years earlier, Rattigan examines the life of Horatio Nelson, in particular his spectacular win at the Battle of Trafalgar and the relationship between himself and his wife and his mistress.
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.
Nov 3, 2022 · Sir Terence Rattigan was one of Britain's greatest playwrights, renowned for his well-crafted dramas of upper-class manners and repressed sexuality. He was...
Sir Terence Rattigan was a British playwright, dramatist and screenwriter. His themes were often set in an upper middle class context and detailed themes of sexual frustration, failed relationships and repression.
The Terence Rattigan Society was founded in Sir Terence Rattigan’s centenary year, 2011, to celebrate, enjoy and study the work and life of one of the Twentieth Century’s greatest playwrights.
Sir Terence Rattigan (1911-77) was a British playwright, whose well-structured plays enjoyed enormous success in the years before and after World War
