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MASTERPIECE THEATRE: CAKES AND ALE {EPISODE 1} (TV)
Summary
Part one of this three-part dramatization of the novel by W. Somerset Maugham about a promiscuous English barmaid named Rosie Gann and the men in her life. In this portion, Rosie is fondly recalled in flashbacks by Willie Ashenden, a playwright who was a rural adolescent when he first met Rosie and her new husband, a struggling young novelist named Edward Driffield. After the flashback, Edward's second wife, Amy Driffield, asks Roy Kear to write a biography of the recently departed Edward Driffield. Roy and Amy worry that Willie may also write a biography, one that will mention Rosie and her unconventional behavior. (This copy of this program does not include commentary by Alistair Cooke.)
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: April 4, 1976 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:51:38
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T81:0941
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1971-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Richard Beynon … Producer
- Bill Hays … Director
- W. Somerset Maugham … Based on the Novel by
- Harry Green … Adapted by
- Bill Southgate … Music by
- Michael Hordern … Cast, Willie Ashenden
- Judy Cornwell … Cast, Rosie Gann
- Peter Jeffrey … Cast, Alroy Kear
- Paul Aston … Cast, Young Willie
- James Grout … Cast, Lord George Kemp
- Mike Pratt … Cast, Edward Driffield
- Lynn Farleigh … Cast, Amy Driffield
- Barbara Atkinson … Cast, Miss Fellowes
- Eileen Helsby … Cast, Mary-Ann
- Kevin Stoney … Cast, Vicar
- Elizabeth Stewart … Cast, the Vicar's Wife
- Ken Wynne … Cast, the Pub Landlord
- Barry Booth … Cast, the Pianist