The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (also known as Gilbert & Sullivan and The Great Gilbert and Sullivan) is a 1953 British musical drama film dramatisation of the collaboration between Gilbert and Sullivan. Librettist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, portrayed by Robert Morley and Maurice Evans, co-wrote fourteen extraordinarily successful comic operas, later referred to as the Savoy Operas, which continue to be popular today.[3]
The film, directed by Sidney Gilliat, is based on Leslie Baily's The Gilbert and Sullivan Book, and Baily co-wrote the screenplay with Gilliat. Shot in Technicolor, it was produced by Gilliat and Frank Launder for London Films in time to mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The film was a box-office failure.
^"Gilbert & Sullivan". British Board of Film Classification. 6 April 1953.
^Porter, Vincent. "The Robert Clark Account", Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 20, No. 4 (2000), p. 499
^Hewett, Ivan.
"The Magic of Gilbert and Sullivan". The Telegraph, 2 August 2009, accessed 14 April 2010.
and 21 Related for: The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan information
GilbertandSullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership ofthe dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) andthe composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)...
GilbertandSullivan have pervasively influenced popular culture in the English-speaking world. Lines and quotations from theGilbertandSullivan operas...
The International GilbertandSullivan Festival was founded in 1994 by Ian Smith and his son Neil and is held every summer in England. The two- or three-week...
(1955);TheStoryofGilbertandSullivan (1953), (acting in a segment featuring The Mikado); and I'm All Right Jack (1959) as an announcer, without the director...
(uncredited) TheStoryofGilbertandSullivan (1953) (or The Great GilbertandSullivan in the US) – Charlotte Street Corner (1953, Both Sides ofthe Law 1954...
music by Arthur Sullivan. It is a fantasy retelling oftheGilbertandSullivanstory, in which images and characters from Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice...
leading patter roles oftheGilbert & Sullivan comic operas in the 1930s and 1940s, and for his career in America from the 1950s to the 1970s. After army...
in TheStoryofGilbertandSullivan (1953) andthe film version of Inadmissible Evidence (1968). In 1953, Dean married writer William Fairchild; the couple...
Master (uncredited) Cosh Boy (1953) – Registrar (uncredited) TheStoryofGilbertandSullivan (1953) – Usher in 'Trial by Jury' Grand National Night (1953)...
The Man Between (also known as Berlin Story) is a 1953 British thriller film directed by Carol Reed and starring James Mason, Claire Bloom and Hildegard...
The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivanand libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic...
(1953), and The Story of GilbertandSullivan (1953). Cry, the Beloved Country (1951), directed by Zoltan, was acclaimed. The Sound Barrier (1952) from...
Woman's Story", one of W. S. Gilbert's Bab Ballads, written in 1870. TheGilbertandSullivan opera H.M.S. Pinafore was also based, in part, on this story. For...
Westminster, London, at the age of 80. The Secret of Stamboul (1936) – Arif State Secret (1950) – Dr. Poldoi TheStoryofGilbertandSullivan (1953) – Smythe...
"Credits: TheStoryofGilbertandSullivan", GilbertandSullivan Archive, 16 April 2009, accessed 8 May 2019 British cinéma ofthe 1950s: the decline of deference...
Global Information