The Happy Hypocrite
Lord George Hell brings his debauched ways to an abrupt end after he is struck by cupid’s arrow while out on the town with his lover La Gambogi. His new heart’s desire is a young dancer called Jenny Mere, who says she will only marry a man with the face of a saint. Lord George subsequently purchases a mask to disguise his ugliness and discards his distinctly un-saintly ways in order to marry Jenny, casting La Gambogi aside in the process.
Cast & Crew
Cast
1st flunkey / A jarvey | C Jervis Walter |
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2nd flunkey / A Woodman | Kenneth Howell |
A Spy / A Citizen | Malcolm Russell |
A Violoncellist / Waiter | George Burn |
Amor | John Denis |
Aphoschadz | Raymond Farrell |
Beau Brummell | Charles Lefeaux |
Captain Tarleton | Peter Graves |
Count Karaloff | Godfrey Kenton |
Garble | William Dewhurst |
Governess / An Old Woman / Country Lover / | Vania Praagh |
Hymen | Mervyn Saunders |
Jenny Mere | Vivien Leigh |
Julius | Tony Halfpenny |
La Gambogi | Isabel Jeans |
Lady Barrymore | Dorothy Batley |
Lady Coleraine | Dorothy Day |
Lady Otterton | Deirdre Sherriff |
Lord Barrymore | Kenneth Buckley |
Lord George Hell | Ivor Novello |
Lord Otterton | Geoffrey Gunn |
Mercury | Carl Harbord |
Mr Aeneas | Quinton McPherson |
Mr Fitzclarence | Clive Donald |
Mr Ripsby | Philip Pearman |
Mrs Ripsby | Yollande Terrell |
Mrs Walpole (tour) / Miss Coleraine (London) | Jocelyn Metcalfe |
Nissarah / country lover | Hugh Laing |
Orange Seller | Betty Lambert |
Sir Follard Follard | Philip Desborough |
The Bishop of St Aldred’s | C Haviland-Burke |
The Harpist | Peggy Dunbar |
Amor (replacement) | Marius Goring
(started 8th April 1936) |
Lady Barrymore (replacement) | Joan Swinstead
(started 8th April 1936) |
Lady Otterton (replacement) | Viola Tree
(started 8th April 1936) |
Miss Tarleton | Deirdre Sherriff
(started 8th April 1936) |
Mr Aeneas (replacement) | Stafford Hilliard
(started 8th April 1936) |
The Bishop of St Aldred’s (replacement) | Fewlass Llewellyn
(started 8th April 1936) |
Crew | |
Composer | Richard Addinsell |
Costumes | Motley |
Director | Maurice Colbourne |
Producer | Richard D Rose |
Producer | Ivor Novello |
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- Isabel Jeans, Ivor Novello, Vivien Leigh & Marius Goring in The Happy Hypocrite 1936, Other public domain
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