Village Wooing (1962 film)

Village Wooing is a 1962 Australian television play directed by William Sterling and starring Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray who were touring Australia at the time. It was based on the play by George Bernard Shaw.[3][4]

Village Wooing
Directed byWilliam Sterling
Based onplay by George Bernard Shaw
StarringMichael Denison
Dulcie Gray
Production
company
ABC
Release date
18 July 1962 (Melbourne)[1]
26 September 1962 (Sydney)[2]
Running time
60 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Ad from SMH dated 26 Sep 1962 p22

Plot

In the 1930s a young woman, an assistant in a village shop, determines to marry a man she meets on an ocean liner. She fails, but the two meet again when the writer is on a walking tour. She sets out to convince the man she has wifely qualities.

Cast
  • Michael Denison
  • Dulcie Gray

Production

In June 1962 it was announced the ABC would broadcast an adaptation of the play with Michael Denison and Duclie Gray.[5] Denison was touring Australia at the time in a production of My Fair Lady; his wife Gray flew out to Australia at the end of June to meet him and to appear in the play (she was not in the production of My Fair Lady).[6]

It was the first production at the ABC of a play by Shaw. It was produced in the ABC's Melbourne studios.[7]

Reception

The TV critic of The Sydney Morning Herald thought Denison "gave his part fluency and charm, bringing more poetry to the closing moments than one might have hoped for from the astringent Shaw" but thought Gray "was less suited to her role; she is the kind of English actress who cannot she! her trim upper-class charn, and her rural accent was unconvincing" and said Sterling's production was "quietly appropriate".[8]

References
  1. "TV Guide". The Age. 12 July 1962. p. 33.
  2. "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 15.
  3. "Boyd, Q.C., is Dulcie Gray's pin-up". The Australian Women's Weekly. 30 (9). 1 August 1962. p. 2 (Television). Retrieved 15 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  5. "Visiting Actor in TV Comedy". The Age. 2 June 1962. p. 3.
  6. ""Mrs Higgins" here Next Month". The Age. 16 June 1962. p. 8.
  7. "Untitled". The Age. 12 July 1962. p. 25.
  8. "Comedy By Shaw On Television". Sydney Morning Herald. 27 September 1962. p. 11.


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