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Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger.
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John Gervase Dighton was a British playwright and screenwriter. His most famous play is The Happiest Days of Your Life which he later adapted for the screen starring Alistair Sim and Margaret Rutherford. He was a long-time screen writer with Ealing Studios. He collaborated on some of the studio’s most celebrated films including, Whent the Day ...
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The play was first seen on BBC Television in its early post-war days, screened live on 4 February 1947 and again on 6 February. [2] It was staged for a single Sunday-night try-out at the Strand Theatre, London , on 3 November 1947, [ 3 ] and opened at the Apollo Theatre , London, on 29 March 1948 where it ran for 605 performances, [ 4 ] until 10 September 1949.
Box office. £278,502 (UK) [ 1 ] The Happiest Days of Your Life is a 1950 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder, based on the 1947 play of the same name by John Dighton. [ 2 ] The two men also wrote the screenplay. It is one of a stable of classic British film comedies produced by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat for British Lion Film ...
Summary. The short story “The Happiest Days of Your Life” by Penelope Lively begins with Mr and Mrs Manders driving through Sussex with their son, Charles. They are on their way to visit St Edwards Preparatory School, where they are thinking of enroling Charles. Mr and Mrs Manders discuss the headmaster’s background and the school’s fees.
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That must be the start of the game. No, no, no, no, three, three short blasts for that. Well now, gentlemen, if you're finished with your tea,...perhaps we can start on our little circumambulation. Now we're going to see the miming class. They're doing the death of Charles I.
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