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unusual facts about Duchess Theatre


Leontine Sagan

She also directed Mädchen in Uniform (translated as "Children in Uniform") in 1932 at the Duchess Theatre in London, featuring Jessica Tandy and Cathleen Nesbitt.


Georgina Cookson

That same decade saw her in Love Goes to Press, with Irene Worth, at the Embassy and Duchess Theatre (1946) and briefly on Broadway the following year; School for Spinsters (Criterion Theatre, 1947), Portrait of Hickory (Embassy, Swiss Cottage, 1948) and opposite Jack Buchanan in Don’t Listen, Ladies! at the St James's Theatre in 1949.

Imogen Hassall

After having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and enjoyed an appearance in the William Douglas-Home comedy "The Reluctant Peer" at the Duchess Theatre in 1964, she appeared in British TV adventure series of the 1960s such as The Saint, The Avengers, The Persuaders!.

Jonathan Guy Lewis

His most notable work as a writer is the award-winning play Our Boys, which was staged at the Donmar Warehouse in 1995 and revived at the Duchess Theatre in 2012.

Peter Whelan

It was first produced at the RSC's The Other Place theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1996 and was revived at The Duchess Theatre from April to October 1997.


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