Dorothy Brandon

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Dorothy Brandon was a British playwright active in the interwar years. Her greatest West End success was the 1923 medical drama The Outsider [1] which was revived several times, and adapted into films on three occasions. [2]

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An earlier hit was 1917's Wild Heather which ran at the Strand Theatre for 79 performances. [3] It was also made into a film. [4] A 1926 play Blind Alley was less successful, running for thirteen performances. [5]

Selected plays

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References

  1. Wearing The London Stage 1920-1929. p.231-32
  2. Goble p.899
  3. Gale p.198
  4. Goble p.1017
  5. Gale p.206

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