Work 1950s

(In progress. Details to be put in soon)

1950

Random Harvest
(Theatre) 
Christine Finn plays Kitty North
Play produced by Peter Croswell-
Nottingham Theatre Royal
February
 -
Theatre Royal Bath
Monday March 20th and the week
 
 
 
Wednesday Matinee: 3.15 app. 'MEN
OF THE WORLD'   
(BBC Home Service) 
A play by Eric Roberts   
A radio comedy by Dudley Hoys     
Play produced by Hugh Stewart
Contributors
Play by: Eric Roberts
Comedy by: Dudley Hoys
Produced by: Hugh Stewart
Rex: Carl Bernard
Irene: Betty Baskcomb
Burglar: Hamilton Dycs
Fanshaw: Martin Lewis
Tribe: Richard Williams
Isobel: Christine Finn
Barbara: Denise Bryer
Tim: John Drake
 
First broadcast:Wed 14th Jun 1950, 15:00 
on BBC Home Service Basic


Summer's Day Dream 
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
Christine Finn plays ROSALIE DAWLISH, the grand daughter of STEPHEN DAWLISH
-  
August 29th- September 3rd




Male Animal
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
 Christine Finn plays PATRICIA STANLEY
 -
September 26th to October 21st



New Gossoon
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
October 24th to November 18th 
 
 
 
Ardele
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
 Christine Finn plays NATHALIE, the General's daughter-in-law
 -
November 21st to December 26th

Scene from Ardele with Christine seated on the chair on the left
Scene from Ardele with Christine presumably standing on the far left


The Bluebird
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
Christine Finn plays TYLTYL
-
 Wednesday 29th December for ten week
 
 
Tyltyl and Myltyl meet Bread and Sugar in the  Birmingham Repertory Theatre's production "The Blue Bird"- roles respectively
played by Christine Finn, Pat Pleasance, Paul Daneman, and Peter Burker


 

1951

Christine Finn kneeling on the floor in Thieves Carnival

Thieve's Carnival
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
Christine plays JULIETTE
-
March 6th until the 31st



Henry VI, Part 2
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
Christine Finn plays A SPIRIT
 -
April 3rd until the 28th


Princess of Pandemonia 
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
Christine Finn plays A COURT PAGE

May 1st until the 26th

Rent Day
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
Christine Finn plays POLLY BRIGGS
-
June 26th until July 21st

Release
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
Christine Finn plays LILY MILTON
-
September 4th until 29th


Confederacy 
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
Christine Finn plays CORINNA, daughter to Gripe by a former 
wife,  a good fortune, young, and kept close by her father
-
October 2nd until the 27nd 
 
 
Wild Duck
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
October 30th until November 17th

Christine Finn, 
Source: Birmingham Gazette, November 21, 1951
 
 
Oliver Twist
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
Christine Finn plays OLIVER TWIST
-
November 20th until December 15th

(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
Christine Finn plays MIKEY, the nephew of HODGE, the wizard
December 19th, until March 1st, 1952 
 
 


 1952 

(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
-
Opened March 4th until 31st


"Henry VI" Part III from (Henry VI - Parts I, II & III)
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
Christine Finn plays LADY GREY, afterwards Queen to Edward the Fourth.
-
Opened April 1st until the 26th
 


Penny For A Song
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
-
Opened April 29th to May the 24th

Opened May 27th to June the 21st



South Wind
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
Christin Finn plays ANGELINA
-
Opened June 24th to July 19th


"Henry VI" Part III from (Henry VI - Parts I, II & III)
(Theatre: Birmingham Rep)
-
Opened July 21st until August 2nd

Larger Than Life
(BBC Television) 
Christine Finn played Avis Criction
-
Broadcast Tuesday 2 September 1952

See also for more details: http://bufvc.ac.uk/screenplays/index.php/prog/2448

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
(Theatre: Arts Theatre) 
Opened October 23rd 1952 until November 16th
 
 

 

(Theatre: Mercury Theatre)
-
December 22nd 1952 until January 7th 1953 





1953
Boy David
(Theatre)
Opened March 17th until April 11th


Twelfth Night
(Theatre)
Opening May 20th till June 14th


Hamlet
(Theatre)
Opened May 26th


Angels In Love
(Theatre)
From August 24th 


The Large Rope
(Cinema)
Christine plays the role of May


The Tinder Box
(Bristol Old Voc Theatre:)

1954


Winter Journey
(Bristol Old Vic Theatre:)
Opened Tuesday, February, 23rd for three weeks


The Shoemakers Holiday
(Bristol Old Vic Theatre:)
Opened Tuesday, March 16th, 1954 until Saturday, April 3rd


The School for Wives
(Bristol Old Vic Theatre:)
    Opened Tuesday, April 6th until Saturday, May 1st


Murder in the Cathedral
(Bristol Old Vic Theatre:)
Opened Tuesday, May 11th until Saturday, May 29th

(Bristol Old Vic Theatre and then the Vaudiville Theatre:)
Opened Tuesday, June 1st until Saturday June 19th.
Relocated and reopened on August 5th

1955

The Explorer (The Journey Begins)
(BBC Children's television)
17th May
playerd : Mrs Winter


Value For Money
(Cinema)


Royal Variety Performance
(Theatre)
7th November, 1955

1956


Patrick Barr and Pauline Jameson in "'The Barlowes of Beddington"
 (BBC Light Programme, radio)
The story of a school seen through the eyes of the headmaster and his wife by Warren Chetham-Strode

Episode 9, 13th April . 7.30pm   
Production By:Audrey Cameron 
Robert Barlowe: Patrick Barr 
Kate Barlowe: Pauline Jameson 
John Tooting: David Enders 
Caroline Nicholls: Elizabeth London 
Henry Jobson: John Stevens 
Dennis Crewe: Ronald Simpson 
Mr Jefferson: Desmond Llewelyn 
Brigadier Evans: Richard Williams 
Annie: Freda Falconer 
Susan Logan: Christine Finn 
Doggert: Geoffrey Wincott 
Sergeant-Major Marden: Richard George 
Swan: Harold Reese 
Black: Glyn Dearman 
Johnson: Henry Davies 
Usher: Jonathan Swift 
Dixon: Richard Bellaers 
Armitage: Charles Crawford
 
 
 
Episode 10, 20th April.7.30pm    
Contributors  
Production By:Audrey Cameron  
Robert Barlowe: Patrick Barr 
Kate Barlowe: Pauline Jameson 
Henry Jobson: John Stevens 
Nigel Rankin: John Glen 
Annie: Freda Falconer 
Mr Stockfield: Gilbert Davis 
Susan Logan: Christine Finn 
Tim O'Connor: T St John Barry 
Swan: Harold Reese 
Black: Glyn Dearman 
Phipps: Peter Bartlett 
Tavistock: Peter Mallory 
Lingard: Peter Street 
Petter: Keith Lloyd 
Finlay: Cavan Malone 
First boy: Michael Caridia
Second boy: Douglas Hankin
 
 
 
 
Episode 12 , 4th May, 7.30pm
Contributors
Production by:Audrey Cameron 
Robert Barlowe:Patrick Barr 
Kate Barlowe:Pauline Jameson 
John Tooting:David Enders 
Caroline Nicholls:Elizabeth London 
Henry Jobson:John Stevens 
Arthur Holmes: Oliver Burt 
Dennis Crewe: Ronald Simpson 
Matron of School House: Molly Rankin 
Annie: Freda Falconer 
General Naseby: Anthony Shaw 
Mr Lambert: Leonard Trolley 
Susan Logan: Christine Finn 
Vicar of Beddington: Bryan Powley 
Mrs Black: Catherine Salkeld 
Sgt -Major Marden: Richard George 
Black:  Glyn Dearman 
Stifton: Wilfrid Downing 
Shoesmith: Donald McCorkindale



From Radio Times # 1721
-

Sunday Theatre presents Mary Wimbush in 'ON LOAN' 
(BBC Light Programme radio) 
First broadcast:
A play for radio by Jon Manchip White from a story by Giovanni Papini 
 
Contributors      
Production by: Michael Bakewell   
Sandrino:  Robert Rietty   
Novella: Christine Finn  
Bruno: Richard Bebb  
Princess Bernhardi: Mary Wimbush  
Krammerheim: Morris Sweden  
Count Laszlo: Cyril Shaps  
Hortense: Kathleen Helme  
Prince Rupert: Trevor Martin  
Prince Frederick: Patrick Godfrey  
Baroness von Chezy: Edith Savile 
Gerd: Frank Partington




1957

The Misanthrope
(BBC Third Progamme, radio)
26th February 

Uncertain Honours
(BBC TV)
12th March
plsyed Janet Baguely

Emergency Ward 10
(TV)

LES CAVES DU VATICAN'
(BBC Third Programme, radio)
17th September, 20:10


Armchair Theatre: An Inch From the Heart
(TV)
October 13th





No Hero
(BBC Home service Radio)
19th October, 14:00

The Wind Might Change
(Theatre)
November 25th

Women Are So Unreasonable
(BBC HOME SERVICE)
7th December

1958

(TV) 
19th January 1958 

The Road Not Taken
(BBC HOME SERVICE)
-
17th february, 1958

No Medals
(BBC Play of the week)
Christine Finn played Lolly Dacre
-
Wednesday 9 April 1958

See also: http://bufvc.ac.uk/screenplays/index.php/prog/546

Conningsby
(BBC HOME SERVICE)
-
Weekly series over nine episode starting 20th April, 1958

Flight of Fancy 
(BBC Third Programme, radio)  
-
 15th May, 21:20, 1958

And Her Romeo
(BBC TV play)
-
10th June 1958

HIGH PAVEMENT
(BBC HOME SERVICE)  
-
 16th October 1958


 
 
Christine Finn as Hermia finds Lysander, played by David Oxley, singularly unresponsive in this scene 
from Shakespeare's fantasy, "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
(TV)
Play written by William Shakespeare,  
Directed by Rudolph Cartiere
9th November 1958j
 


Photo for "Quatermass And The Pit"
André Morell, Christine Finn, and Cec Linder with director?
(TV)
-
22nd December 1958 to 29th January 1959
 
 
 
 
 

1959

 
(Theatre)
-
Opened March the 18th or February the 11th,  1959
 
 
 
 

 

Comedie Francaise in London.
Christine Finn (right) , of the Old Vic Company, pours a glass of champagne for Micheline Boudet (left), of the Comedie Française, for a toast in London yesterday after the French company's arrival at the Princes Theatre, London, last night with a performance of George Freydeau's play, Le Dindon. ( Birmingham Gazette, Tuesday March 17th 1959)

clearer image of the above
 
 
Opening the St Andrew School, North Harrow bazaar at St George's Hall, 18th March 1959
 
"Winning stall at St Andrew School, North Harrow bazaar at St George's Hall, Pinner view on Wednesday last week . It was called "Around the world in 80 days". Adrenne Gray (left) and Christine Ellinger are telling Miss Christine Finn (centre) the actress, who opened the bazaar, the countries they would like to visit" 
 
"I was more nervous doing this than at any first night", she told the Observer afterwards" 
(Photo from The Observer And Gazette, Thursday March 26th 1959)



 
Photo from The Observer And Gazette, Thursday March 26th 1959


 
The Tempest; or The Enchanted Island
(Theatre)
-
Opened 9th June until 27th July,  1959

See: Review for The Tempest from The Spectator 19th



Black Chiffon
(TV)
Broadcast on July 4th,  1959



The Juke Box
(BBC Home Service Radio) 
-
13th August,  1959

From September 14th ,  1959


The Importance Of Being Earnest
(Theatre)
Opened October 13th,  1959

Don Carlos
(Theatre / BBC Third Program Radio))
November 11th ,  1959

Lady Windermere's Fan
(Radio)
Broadcast December 19th,  1959
 
 
 
Publicity image for The Grass Is Greener. Source: Evening Express, March 15, 1960
 



(Theatre)
Opened December 2nd 1958 until May 1960

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