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2 unusual facts about Summer of the Seventeenth Doll


Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

After continuing to tour Australia through 1958, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll was adapted by Leslie Norman for Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions – whose first film had been Marty with Ernest Borgnine – for United Artists in 1959.

The female leads were played by Anne Baxter and Angela Lansbury, though the film featured many Australian actors.



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Ray Lawler

In 1972, he visited Australia for the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of The Man Who Shot the Albatross, a version of the Governor Bligh story; and then in 1975 returned to settle in Australia as associate director of the Melbourne Theatre Company, with an agreement to complete a trilogy based on Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.