When We Are Married

  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 145 min
  • Premiere: 1938. November 16.

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. The first play in history to ever be televised complete and unedited direct from the theatre. It is now believed to be lost. The BBC would make another television film version of this play in 1949 with several of the same actors from this film including Raymond Huntley, Ernest Butcher, Patricia Hayes, George Carney and Lloyd Pearson.

Discover

Mae Bacon

Lottie Grady

Ernest Butcher

Herbert Soppitt

George Carney

Henry Ormonroyd

Ethel Coleridge

Clara Soppitt

B. Marsh Dunn

Mayor of Clecklewyke

Betty Fleetwood

Nancy Holmes

Muriel George

Maria Helliwell

Raymond Huntley

Councillor Albert Parker

Lloyd Pearson

Alderman Joseph Halliwell

Helena Pickard

Annie Parker

Beatrice Varley

Mrs. Northrop

Richard Warner

Gerald Forbes

Norman Wooland

Rev. Clement Mercer

Patricia Hayes

Ruby Birtle

Directing

Philip Dorté

Director

Production

Basil Dean

Producer

Writing

Directing

Philip Dorté

Director

Production

Basil Dean

Producer

Writing