The French Mistress

Subtitle: A LIGHT-HEARTED AFFAIR. The Windsor run was attended by the Queen and Princess Margaret on Thursday 9th April.

The show’s Adelphi opening was originally set for Thursday 4th June. Sonnie Hale, its star and (as Robert Monro) author, was hospitalised that morning with a virus infection. He died the following Tuesday in St George’s Hospital, London. The play finally opened on Saturday the 13th, with Richard Bird playing Hale’s role.

Cast & Crew

Cast

Baines
Brian Orton
Colonel Edmunds
Edmunds
John Crawley
Lisette Latour
Mrs Barlow
Peter Crawley
Robert Martin
Slater
Wigram
Baines
  (started June 1959)
Brian Orton
  (started June 1959)
Colonel Edmunds
  (started June 1959)
John Crawley
  (started June 1959)
Lisette Latour
  (started June 1959)

Crew

Director
Settings by (West End)
Settings designed and painted by (Windsor)
Settings painted by (assistant: Windsor)

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