The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (play)

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney is a 1925 play by British playwright Frederick Lonsdale. A popular success in London, it was adapted four times as a film, three times in the United States from 1929 to 1951, and the last, in 1961, as a German production.

Play

Frederick Lonsdale's play, about a jewel thief who passes herself off as a society lady, opened at the

St. James's Theatre in London on 22 September 1925 and ran for 514 performances. Reviewing the opening night for The Sunday Times, critic James Agate wrote: "It is not a good sort of play, but it is a very good play of its sort."^[1] It was included in Burns Mantle

's The Best Plays of 1925–1926.

Movie adaptations

The first movie version of

Academy Award in 1930 for Best Writing, Achievement for Hanns Kräly

.
A second movie adaptation of the same name was released in 1937, starring Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery, Benita Hume and Frank Morgan.
The final American movie version of the Lonsdale play starred Greer Garson and was titled The Law and the Lady (1951).
A German film version was released as The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1961), starring Lilli Palmer.

Notes

^ Agate, James. Red Letter Nights, Jonathan Cape (1944)

External links

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney at the Internet Broadway Database

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney at Faded Page (Canada)

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) at
IMDb

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937) at
IMDb

The Law and the Lady (1951) at
IMDb

Frau Cheneys Ende (1961) at
IMDb

1946 Theatre Guild on the Air radio adaptation of play at Internet Archive

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Musicals and plays by Frederick Lonsdale

King of Cadonia (1908, libretto)

The Balkan Princess (1910, libretto)

Betty (1915, libretto)

The Maid of the Mountains (1917, libretto)

Monsieur Beaucaire (1919, libretto adaptation)

Madame Pompadour (1923, libretto adaptation)

Aren't We All? (1923)

The Street Singer (1924, libretto)

The Fake (1924)

Spring Cleaning (1925)

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1925)

On Approval (1926)

The High Road (1927)

Canaries Sometimes Sing (1929)

But for the Grace of God (1946)

The Way Things Go (1950)

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[1] Agate, James. Red Letter Nights, Jonathan Cape (1944)

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