Don't Listen Ladies

Don't Listen Ladies is a 1963 Australian TV movie. It starred Margo Lee and was directed by James Upshaw.[3] Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[4]

Don't Listen Ladies
Directed byJames Upshaw
Produced byJames Upshaw
Written bySacha Guitry (Fr.),transl. Stephen Powys and Guy Bolton.
Based ona play of three acts translated from French
StarringMargo Lee
Neil Fitzpatrick
Release date
10 April 1963[1]
12 June 1963 (Melbourne)[2]
Running time
80 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Plot

In a French antique shop, Daniel and his second wife Madeleine have marital adventures. She finds a letter that makes her think he is having an affair. She encourages the love of Daniel's assistant, Blandinet. Also involved are Daniel's first wife Valentine, a former girlfriend called Julie, a young man called Michel who Madeleine thinks of marrying, and a customer Baron de Charancy.

Cast

  • Alex Archdale as Daniel Archelete
  • Margot Lee as Madeleine
  • Neva Carr Glynn as Julie
  • Noel Brophy as Baron
  • Neil Fitzpatrick as Blandinet
  • Owen Weingott as Michel
  • Audrey Teasdale
  • Ronald Morse

Reception

The Bulletin called it "harmless, tolerable entertainment."[5]

The Sydney Morning Herald praised Archdale's performance.[6]

See also

  • List of television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1960s)

References

  1. "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 8 April 1963. p. 19.
  2. "Untitled". The Age. 6 June 1963. p. 10.
  3. "COMEDY SET IN ANTIQUE SHOP". The Canberra Times. 37 (10, 507). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 10 April 1963. p. 29. Retrieved 1 March 2017 via National Library of Australia.
  4. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  5. The bulletin, John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880, retrieved 6 April 2019
  6. "Guitry Play on TV". Sydney Morning Herald. 11 April 1963. p. 12.


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