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1958 plays
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The list 1958 plays includes
Five Finger Exercise, Blue Denim, The Pleasure of His Company, The Marriage-Go-Round and Once More, with Feeling!.
The list consists of 45 members
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Five Finger Exercise
1962 film by Daniel Mann
Overview: Five Finger Exercise [sic] is a 1962 American drama film directed by Daniel Mann and produced by Frederick Brisson from a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett based on the play by ...
Release date: 19 April 1962Genre: DramaDirector: Daniel MannProducer: Frederick BrissonWriter: Frances Goodrich, Albert HackettA long-married couple are at war with each other and with their teenage son and daughter. The presence...
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Blue Denim
1958 Broadway play by James Leo Herlihy adapted to film in 1959
Overview: Blue Denim is a 1959 American drama film based on a Broadway play by writer James Leo Herlihy. It starred Carol Lynley and Warren Berlinger who reprised their stage roles. 17-year-old Brandon deWilde ...Release date: 30 July 1959Genre: DramaDirector: Philip DunneProducer: Philip Dunne, James Leo HerlihyArthur Bartley and Janet Willard are fairly typical 1950s teenagers. Their lives are turned upside down however when Janet becomes pregnant... 0
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The Pleasure of His Company
1961 comedy film directed by George Seaton
Overview: The Pleasure of His Company is a 1961 comedy film starring Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds and Tab Hunter directed by George Seaton and released by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the 1958 play of ...Release date: 1 June 1961Genre: ComedyDirector: George SeatonProducer: Cornelia Otis Skinner, Samuel A. TaylorSan Francisco debutante, Jessica Poole, is marrying Napa Valley cattle rancher, Roger Henderson, and hopes her peripatetic father... 0
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The Marriage-Go-Round
1961 American comedy film
Overview: The Marriage-Go-Round is a 1961 DeLuxe Color CinemaScope American comedy film directed by Walter Lang and written by Leslie Stevens. It is based on the 1958 play The Marriage-Go-Round, also penned by ...
Release date: 6 January 1961Genre: ComedyDirector: Walter LangProducer: Leslie StevensWriter: Leslie StevensA Swedish woman wants her American host to father her baby. 0
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Once More, with Feeling!
1960 film by Stanley Donen
Overview: Once More, with Feeling! is a 1960 British comedy film starring Yul Brynner and Kay Kendall in her final film appearance and directed and produced by Stanley Donen from a screenplay by Harry Kurnitz, based ...Release date: 11 February 1960Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: Stanley DonenProducer: Harry Kurnitz, Stanley DonenYul Brynner plays a musical genius whose eccentricities are kept in check by his wife, until she discovers him "auditioning" a sultry young pianist ... 0
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Jungle Fighters
1961 British film
Overview: The Long and the Short and the Tall (released as Jungle Fighters in the US and Canada) is a 1961 British war film directed by Leslie Norman and starring Richard Todd, Laurence Harvey and Richard Harris ...Release date: 28 February 1961Genre: Drama, WarDirector: Leslie NormanProducer: Michael Balcon, Hal MasonWriter: Willis Hall, Wolf MankowitzIn 1942, a group of British soldiers is sent on a mission in the Malaysian jungle and gets lost into the Japanese controlled zone. 0
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A Taste of Honey
British 1958 play by Shelagh Delaney
Overview: A Taste of Honey is the first play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written when she was 19. It was adapted into an award-winning film of the same title in 1961. 0
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Suddenly Last Summer
play written by Tennessee Williams
Overview: Suddenly Last Summer is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, written in New York in 1957. It opened off Broadway on January 7, 1958, as part of a double bill with another of Williams' one-acts, Something ... 0
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Say, Darling
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Overview: Say, Darling is a three-act comic play by Abe Burrows and Richard and Marian Bissell about the creation of a Broadway musical. Although the play featured nine original songs with lyrics by Betty Comden ... 0
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Quaint Honor
1958 play by Roger GellertOverview: Quaint Honour is a 1958 play by Roger Gellert whose subject is homosexuality in a school for young men. 0
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Not in the Book
play by Arthur Watkyn
Overview: Not in the Book is a comedy thriller play by the British writer Arthur Watkyn. It was first performed at the Theatre Royal in Brighton before transferring to the Criterion Theatre in London's West End ... 0
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12.Overview: The Big Tickle is a 1958 comedy play by the British writer Ronald Millar. A respectable woman who finds herself short of money, turns to robbery. 0
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Flowering Cherry
Australian play and television filmOverview: The Flowering Cherry is a 1958 play written by Robert Bolt. 0
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The Gazebo (play)
play written by Alec CoppelOverview: The Gazebo is a play by Alec Coppel based on a story by Coppel and his wife Myra. 0
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Epitaph for George Dillon
play written by Anthony Creighton
Overview: Epitaph for George Dillon is an early John Osborne play, one of two he wrote in collaboration with Anthony Creighton (the other is Personal Enemy). It was written before Look Back in Anger, the play which ... 0
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16.Overview: The Unexpected Guest is a 1958 play by crime writer Agatha Christie. 0
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Verdict (play)
play written by Agatha ChristieOverview: Verdict is a 1958 play by British mystery writer Agatha Christie. It is unusual for Agatha Christie plays in more than one way: for example, it is an original play, not based on a story or novel; and though ... 0
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J.B. (play)
play by Archibald MacLeishOverview: J.B. is a 1958 play written in free verse by American playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish, and is a modern-day retelling of the story of the biblical figure Job. The play is about J.B. (a stand-in for ... 0
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The Fire Raisers (play)
play by Max Frisch
Overview: The Arsonists (German: Biedermann und die Brandstifter), previously also known in English as The Firebugs or The Fire Raisers, was written by the Swiss novelist and playwright Max Frisch in 1953, first ... 0
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Krapp's Last Tape
1958 British theatrical play by Samuel Beckett
Overview: Krapp's Last Tape is a 1958 one-act play, in English, by Samuel Beckett. With a cast of one man, it was written for Northern Irish actor Patrick Magee and first titled "Magee monologue". It was inspired ... 0
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