| The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 2 of 11 "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde A 1985 TV broadcast featuring the formidable and hilarious Lady Bracknell by Dame Wendy Hiller. link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "The Importance Of Being Earnest": http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=749CF199F94D9B7F Gary Bond ... John Worthing, JP Jeremy Clyde ... Algernon Moncrieff Alan Hay ... Lane Gabrielle Drake ... Gwendolen Fairfax Directed by Michael Attenborough (stage) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (TV) Richard Ross asked Wilde about 'Earnest' "What sort of play are we to expect?" the playwright answered: "It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy." "Its philosophy?" "That we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality." This production was broadcasted on US television in 1985 (when I recorded in on this VHS tape), and that is the date given in several references, but it was originally produced in 1981. Tags: Oscar-Wilde Wendy-Hiller Gary-Bond Jeremy-Clyde play Gabrielle-Drake |