When We Are Married

When We Are Married — Plot

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. The first play in history to ever be televised complete and unedited direct from the theatre. It is now believed to be lost. The BBC would make another television film version of this play in 1949 with several of the same actors from this film including Raymond Huntley, Ernest Butcher, Patricia Hayes, George Carney and Lloyd Pearson.

• Release date
• November 16, 1938
• Runtime
• 145 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Philip Dorté

When We Are Married — Cast

M

Mae Bacon Lottie Grady Ernest Butcher Herbert Soppitt George Carney Henry Ormonroyd

E

Ethel Coleridge Clara Soppitt

B

B. Marsh Dunn Mayor of Clecklewyke

B

Betty Fleetwood Nancy Holmes

M

Muriel George Maria Helliwell

A

Alexander Grandison Fred Dyson