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The Late Christopher Bean is a comedy drama adapted from Prenez garde à la peinture by René Fauchois. It exists in two versions: an American adaptation by Sidney Howard (1932) and an English version by Emlyn Williams (1933).
Christopher Bean is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Sam Wood and written by Laurence E. Johnson and Sylvia Thalberg, based on the 1932 play, The Late Christopher Bean, by Sidney Howard. The film stars Marie Dressler, Lionel Barrymore, Helen Mack, Beulah Bondi, and Russell Hardie.
By contrast, she played a downtrodden maid in The Late Christopher Bean (1933), a deranged, impoverished old woman in The Whisperers (1967) and – one of her most celebrated roles – Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, which she played in four productions between 1926 and 1961.
Henry Miller's Theatre was most successful from the 1930s through 1950s. [52] In the early 1930s, the theater hosted The Good Fairy (1931), with Helen Hayes and Walter Connolly; [68] [69] The Late Christopher Bean (1932), with Pauline Lord; [68] [70] and Personal Appearance (1934), with Gladys George.
As a librettist Fauchois is probably best known for writing the " poème lyrique " for Fauré 's Pénélope (1913). His best-known play is Prenez garde à la peinture (1932), a comedy of bourgeois avarice, adapted for US and British stage and screen as The Late Christopher Bean.
One of his greatest successes on Broadway was an adaptation of a French comedy by René Fauchois, The Late Christopher Bean. Yellow Jack, an historical drama about the war against yellow fever, was praised for its high-minded purpose and innovative staging when it premiered in 1934.
Among the long-running productions were The Last of Mrs Cheyney (1925), Interference (1927), The Late Christopher Bean (1933) and Ladies in Retirement (1939). In January 1950 Laurence Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh took over the management of the theatre.
Career. In New York, Bean's first big acting roles were in the original Broadway productions of The Late Christopher Bean [2] and Eugene O'Neill 's Ah, Wilderness. [3] She worked as Herman Shumlin 's assistant on The Children's Hour.
She also considered acting as a career. She was a talented actress who played several roles for a summer stock company [8] in New London, New Hampshire, including the lead role in Sidney Howard 's, The Late Christopher Bean.
The following summer, she joined the Clinton Hollow Theatre in Poughkeepsie, New York. Her acting as the female lead in The Late Christopher Bean there was seen by a talent scout, and that led to her getting a contract with Fox Studios. [1]