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unusual facts about Ladies in Retirement


Arthur Lithgow

A nomad all his life, Lithgow was in Rochester, NY near the end of World War II, where he appeared in amateur productions such as the glib cockney scoundrel in an amateur production of the English comic melodrama Ladies in Retirement, produced by the Rochester Community Players.


John Stephen Hill

Hill's West End work include his leading role debut in Deathtrap (Garrick Theatre), Ladies in Retirement (Fortune Theatre), and a tap-dancing Aggie footballer choreographed by Tommy Tune in the original UK production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane).

Lionel Banks

Banks was nominated for an Oscar seven times, for "Holiday" (1938), "Mr Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), "Arizona" (1940), "Ladies in Retirement" (1941), "The Talk of the Town" (1942), "Address Unknown" and "Cover Girl" (both 1944).


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