Word: cheyney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Frederick Lonsdale, 73, prolific British playwright (about 20 plays), best known in the U.S. for his 1925 Broadway hit, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney; of a heart attack; in London...
...sophomore year and enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, explaining glibly to her puzzled mother that the voice training would help her to become a teacher. Graduating in the spring of 1929, Rosalind was impressive enough in the school's production of The Last of Mrs Cheyney to interest a badly coordinated pair of producers from a summer theater at Saranac Lake. One partner hoped to get her for $40 a week, but Ros talked the other partner into an offer of $150, and hastily accepted...
...Lady (MGM) is the third movie version of The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Frederick Lonsdale's 1925 stage comedy of larceny in the drawing room. Inspired by the time-tested Hollywood axiom, "if at first you succeed, try, try again," the latest cinemadaptation comes off well enough to suggest that even now movie-goers may not be seeing the last of Mrs. Cheyney...
Died. Peter Cheyney, 55, British crime novelist (Your Deal My 'Lovely, Dark Interlude), who began writing thrillers about U.S. gangsters and "private eyes" to win a ?5 bet, eventually sold millions of copies, earned close to $1,000,000; of a heart attack; in London...