Good Luck (play)

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Good Luck
Written by Ian Hay
Seymour Hicks
Date premiered27 September 1923
Place premiered Drury Lane Theatre, London
Original languageEnglish
GenreComedy

Good Luck is a 1923 comedy play by Ian Hay and Seymour Hicks.

It ran for 260 performances at the Drury Lane Theatre in London's West End between 27 September 1923 and 10 May 1924. The cast included Claude Rains, Edmund Gwenn, Arthur Treacher, Claud Allister, Joan Maude and Joyce Carey. [1]

In 1926 it was adapted into a silent film The Sporting Lover by Hollywood studio First National Pictures, starring Conway Tearle and Barbara Bedford. [2]

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References

  1. Wearing p.249
  2. Goble p.963

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