Coral Browne
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Coral Browne was an Australian-American stage and screen actress.
, a suburb of Melbourne
, where she studied at the National Gallery Art School
. Her amateur debut was as Gloria in Shaw
's You Never Can Tell, directed by Frank Clewlow
.
Gregan McMahon
snapped her up for her professional debut as "Margaret Orme" in Loyalties at Melbourne's Comedy Theatre
on 2 May 1931 (she was still billed as "Brown", the "e" being added in 1936), aged 17.
At the age of 21, with just £50 and an introduction to famed actress Marie Tempest
from Gregan McMahon, she emigrated to England where she became established as a stage actress, notably as leading lady to Jack Buchanan
in Frederick Lonsdale
's The Last of Mrs Cheyney, W Somerset Maugham's Lady Frederick and Alan Melville's Castle in the Air. She was a regular performer in productions at The Savoy Theatre and was resident in the hotel for many years, including throughout World War II. When the original British touring production of The Man Who Came To Dinner
ran into financial difficulty and could not be produced in London, Browne borrowed money from her dentist and bought the rights to the play, successfully staging it at The Savoy Theatre in London. She received royalties from the play from all future productions. She began film acting in 1936, with her more famous roles being Vera Charles in Auntie Mame
(1958), Mercy Croft in The Killing of Sister George
(1968), and Lady Claire Gurney in The Ruling Class
(1972).
In 1969, Browne appeared in the poorly received original production of Joe Orton
's controversial farce What the Butler Saw
in the West End at the Queen's Theatre with Sir Ralph Richardson
, Stanley Baxter
, and Hayward Morse
.
While touring the Soviet Union
in a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (later the Royal Shakespeare Company
) production of Hamlet
in 1958, she met spy Guy Burgess
. This meeting became the basis of Alan Bennett
's script for the television movie An Englishman Abroad
(1983) in which Browne played herself, apparently including some of her conversations with Burgess. Burgess who had found solace in his exile by continually playing the music of Jack Buchanan
, asked Browne if she had known him. "I suppose so", the actress replied, "we nearly got married". Her other notable film of this period, Dreamchild
(1986) concerned the author Lewis Carroll
. In the film, Browne gave an affecting account of the later life of Alice Liddell
who had inspired the tale Alice in Wonderland.
(1973), she met actor Vincent Price
; they married on 24 October 1974. They appeared together in the short lived CBS
TV series Time Express
in 1979.
She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1987 as a gift to Price; he later converted to Roman Catholicism for her (she had converted many years previously).
She died in Los Angeles, California
from breast cancer, aged 77; she had no children.
was once asked to meet a young friend of his parents who was visiting London from South Africa and took him to a restaurant. Browne was at a nearby table. As she left she greeted Ned and then, looking at the very good-looking young man, said "Had the trip wires out at Euston
[station] again have we darling?" When told by the Royal Shakespeare Company
that there was no suitable role in their upcoming production of King Lear for her husband, Philip Pearman, she demanded a script and running through it she found the page she was looking for. "There you are", she said, "the perfect part. A small camp near Dover."
Browne's language was colourful, and an unauthorized biography of her, This Effing Lady, was published. She was a devout Catholic (by conversion). The two aspects came together in a story of her standing outside Brompton Oratory after Sunday mass when an actor came up to her with gossip about who was sleeping with someone else's wife. She stopped him in his tracks with: "I don't want to hear this filth. Not with me standing here in a state of fucking grace." Fellow Australian performer Barry Humphries
paid tribute to Browne at her memorial service with an appropriate rhyming couplet: "She left behind an emptiness/A gap, a void, a trough/The world is quite a good deal less/Since Coral Browne fucked off."
Career
Coral Edith Brown was the only daughter of a restaurant-owner. She and her two brothers were raised in FootscrayFootscray, Victoria
Footscray is a suburb 5 km west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Maribyrnong. At the 2006 Census, Footscray had a population of 11,401....
, a suburb of Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, where she studied at the National Gallery Art School
National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites...
. Her amateur debut was as Gloria in Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
's You Never Can Tell, directed by Frank Clewlow
Frank Clewlow
Frank Dawson Clewlow was an English actor-director who in 1936 became Federal Controller of Productions for the Australian Broadcasting Commission....
.
Gregan McMahon
Gregan McMahon
Gregan McMahon, CBE was an Australian actor and theatrical producer.McMahon was born in Sydney, elder son of John Terence McMahon, a clerk, and his wife Elizabeth, née Gregan. Both parents were emigrants from Ireland. McMahon was educated at Sydney Grammar School and St Ignatius' College, Riverview...
snapped her up for her professional debut as "Margaret Orme" in Loyalties at Melbourne's Comedy Theatre
Comedy Theatre, Melbourne
The Comedy Theatre is a 997 seat theatre in Melbourne. It was built in 1928, and was built in the Spanish style, with a Florentine-style exterior and wrought-iron balconies. It is located at 240 Exhibition Street, and diagonally opposite Her Majesty's Theatre, it is a part of the Marriner Theatre...
on 2 May 1931 (she was still billed as "Brown", the "e" being added in 1936), aged 17.
At the age of 21, with just £50 and an introduction to famed actress Marie Tempest
Marie Tempest
Dame Marie Tempest DBE was an English singer and actress known as the "queen of her profession".Tempest became the most famous soprano in late Victorian light opera and Edwardian musical comedies. Later, she became a leading comic actress and toured widely in North America and elsewhere...
from Gregan McMahon, she emigrated to England where she became established as a stage actress, notably as leading lady to Jack Buchanan
Jack Buchanan
Walter John "Jack" Buchanan was a British theatre and film actor, singer, producer and director. He was known for three decades as the embodiment of the debonair man-about-town in the tradition of George Grossmith Jr., and was described by The Times as "the last of the knuts." He is best known in...
in Frederick Lonsdale
Frederick Lonsdale
Frederick Lonsdale was an English dramatist.-Personal life:Lonsdale was born Lionel Frederick Leonard in St Helier, Jersey, the son of Susan and John Henry Leonard, a tobacconist. He began as a private soldier and worked for the London and South Western Railway...
's The Last of Mrs Cheyney, W Somerset Maugham's Lady Frederick and Alan Melville's Castle in the Air. She was a regular performer in productions at The Savoy Theatre and was resident in the hotel for many years, including throughout World War II. When the original British touring production of The Man Who Came To Dinner
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Man Who Came to Dinner is a comedy in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. It debuted on October 16, 1939 at the Music Box Theatre in New York City. It then enjoyed a number of New York and London revivals. The first London production was staged at The Savoy Theatre starring Robert...
ran into financial difficulty and could not be produced in London, Browne borrowed money from her dentist and bought the rights to the play, successfully staging it at The Savoy Theatre in London. She received royalties from the play from all future productions. She began film acting in 1936, with her more famous roles being Vera Charles in Auntie Mame
Auntie Mame (film)
Auntie Mame is a 1958 film based on the novel by Patrick Dennis and its theatrical adaptation by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. This film version stars Rosalind Russell and was directed by Morton DaCosta...
(1958), Mercy Croft in The Killing of Sister George
The Killing of Sister George
The Killing of Sister George is a 1964 play by Frank Marcus that was adapted as a 1968 film directed by Robert Aldrich.- Stage version :Sister George is a beloved character in the popular radio series Applehurst, a nurse who ministers to the medical needs and personal problems of the local villagers...
(1968), and Lady Claire Gurney in The Ruling Class
The Ruling Class
The Ruling Class is a 1972 British black comedy film. It is an adaptation of Peter Barnes' satirical stage play which tells the story of a paranoid schizophrenic British nobleman who inherits a peerage. The film costars Alastair Sim, William Mervyn, Coral Browne, Harry Andrews, Carolyn Seymour,...
(1972).
In 1969, Browne appeared in the poorly received original production of Joe Orton
Joe Orton
John Kingsley Orton was an English playwright.In a short but prolific career lasting from 1964 until his death, he shocked, outraged and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies...
's controversial farce What the Butler Saw
What the Butler Saw (play)
What the Butler Saw is a farce written by English playwright Joe Orton. It premièred at the Queen's Theatre in London on 5 March 1969. It was Orton's final play and the second to be performed after his death, following Funeral Games the year before....
in the West End at the Queen's Theatre with Sir Ralph Richardson
Ralph Richardson
Sir Ralph David Richardson was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, also appeared in several classic films....
, Stanley Baxter
Stanley Baxter
Stanley Baxter is a Scottish comic actor and impressionist, best known for his British television shows. He worked in radio, theatre, television and film.-Early life:...
, and Hayward Morse
Hayward Morse
Hayward Morse is a British stage and voice actor. His career began on CBC television and with numerous stage performances in Canada and the United States. He made his USA television debut in 1959 with Ingrid Bergman in the critically acclaimed film The Turn of the Screw...
.
While touring the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
in a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (later the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...
) production of Hamlet
Hamlet
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
in 1958, she met spy Guy Burgess
Guy Burgess
Guy Francis De Moncy Burgess was a British-born intelligence officer and double agent, who worked for the Soviet Union. He was part of the Cambridge Five spy ring that betrayed Western secrets to the Soviets before and during the Cold War...
. This meeting became the basis of Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research mediaeval history at the university for several years...
's script for the television movie An Englishman Abroad
An Englishman Abroad
An Englishman Abroad is a 1983 BBC television drama, based on the true story of a chance meeting of an actress, Coral Browne, with Guy Burgess , a member of the Cambridge spy ring who worked for the Soviet Union whilst with MI6...
(1983) in which Browne played herself, apparently including some of her conversations with Burgess. Burgess who had found solace in his exile by continually playing the music of Jack Buchanan
Jack Buchanan
Walter John "Jack" Buchanan was a British theatre and film actor, singer, producer and director. He was known for three decades as the embodiment of the debonair man-about-town in the tradition of George Grossmith Jr., and was described by The Times as "the last of the knuts." He is best known in...
, asked Browne if she had known him. "I suppose so", the actress replied, "we nearly got married". Her other notable film of this period, Dreamchild
Dreamchild
Dreamchild is a 1985 British drama film produced by Verity Lambert, directed by Gavin Millar and written by Dennis Potter. It stars Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Nicola Cowper and Amelia Shankley and is a fictionalized account of Alice Liddell, the child who inspired Lewis Carroll's...
(1986) concerned the author Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
. In the film, Browne gave an affecting account of the later life of Alice Liddell
Alice Liddell
Alice Pleasance Liddell , known for most of her adult life by her married name, Alice Hargreaves, inspired the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, whose protagonist Alice is said to be named after her.-Biography:...
who had inspired the tale Alice in Wonderland.
Personal life
She married actor Philip Pearman in 1950; a bisexual, he died in 1964. While making the film Theatre of BloodTheatre of Blood
Theatre of Blood is a horror film starring Vincent Price as vengeful actor Edward Lionheart and Diana Rigg as his daughter Edwina Lionheart. The cast includes such distinguished actors as Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Jack Hawkins, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, Joan Hickson, Robert...
(1973), she met actor Vincent Price
Vincent Price
Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.-Early life and career:Price was born in St...
; they married on 24 October 1974. They appeared together in the short lived CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
TV series Time Express
Time Express
Time Express is a short-lived American fantasy TV series, broadcast April–May 1979 on CBS and later syndicated. The series was created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts who had both previously been involved in the creation of Charlie's Angels...
in 1979.
She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1987 as a gift to Price; he later converted to Roman Catholicism for her (she had converted many years previously).
She died in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
from breast cancer, aged 77; she had no children.
Awards
Browne was awarded the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress in 1984 for her role in An Englishman Abroad. She later received the London Evening Standard's British Film Award for Best Actress in 1986 for Dreamchild. In 1976, the Los Angeles Theatre Critics named her Best Actress for her role in Travesties, at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles.Personality
Browne's outrageous razor wit was renowned, and endless anecdotes of her circulated in theatrical circles. At the first night of Peter Brook's production of Oedipus during which a giant golden phallus was unveiled onstage, Browne turned to her companion Val Gielgud in the stalls and said loudly: "Well, it's nobody we know, darling." Theatre critic Ned SherrinNed Sherrin
Edward George "Ned" Sherrin CBE was an English broadcaster, author and stage director. He qualified as a barrister and then worked in independent television before joining the BBC...
was once asked to meet a young friend of his parents who was visiting London from South Africa and took him to a restaurant. Browne was at a nearby table. As she left she greeted Ned and then, looking at the very good-looking young man, said "Had the trip wires out at Euston
Euston
Euston may refer to:Communities*Euston, Suffolk, UK*Euston, New South Wales, AustraliaStations*Euston railway station, London, UK*Euston tube station, London, UK*Euston Square tube station, London, UKOther...
[station] again have we darling?" When told by the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...
that there was no suitable role in their upcoming production of King Lear for her husband, Philip Pearman, she demanded a script and running through it she found the page she was looking for. "There you are", she said, "the perfect part. A small camp near Dover."
Browne's language was colourful, and an unauthorized biography of her, This Effing Lady, was published. She was a devout Catholic (by conversion). The two aspects came together in a story of her standing outside Brompton Oratory after Sunday mass when an actor came up to her with gossip about who was sleeping with someone else's wife. She stopped him in his tracks with: "I don't want to hear this filth. Not with me standing here in a state of fucking grace." Fellow Australian performer Barry Humphries
Barry Humphries
John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE is an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist, author and character actor, best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and "gigastar", and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to the...
paid tribute to Browne at her memorial service with an appropriate rhyming couplet: "She left behind an emptiness/A gap, a void, a trough/The world is quite a good deal less/Since Coral Browne fucked off."
Tributes
- Browne was the subject of a biography, The Coral Browne Story: Theatrical Life and Times of a Lustrous Australian, by Barbara AngellBarbara AngellBarbara Angell – also known as Barb Angell and sometimes wrongly credited as Barbara Angel – Australian writer and actor was Australia's first female television comedy writer-entertainer...
. This was published May 2007 and launched at the Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, on 14 June of that year.
- Coral Browne: 'This Effing Lady, by Rose Collis, published by Oberon Books, was launched at the Royal National Theatre, 4 October 2007.
Selected filmography
- Charing Cross RoadCharing Cross Road (film)Charing Cross Road is a 1935 British drama film directed by Albert de Courville and starring John Mills, June Clyde, Derek Oldham and Belle Baker...
, 1935 - Line Engaged, 1935
- The Amateur Gentleman, 1936
- Guilty Melody, 1936
- Black Limelight, 1938
- We're Going to Be Rich, 1938
- Yellow Sands, 1938
- The Nursemaid Who Disappeared, 1939
- Let George Do It, 1940
- Piccadilly Incident, 1946
- Courtney Affair/Courtneys of Curzon St., 1947
- Twist of Fate/The Beautiful Stranger, 1954
- Auntie MameAuntie Mame (film)Auntie Mame is a 1958 film based on the novel by Patrick Dennis and its theatrical adaptation by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. This film version stars Rosalind Russell and was directed by Morton DaCosta...
, 1958 - Go to BlazesGo to Blazes (1962 film)Go to Blazes is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Michael Truman and starring Dave King, Robert Morley, Norman Rossington, Daniel Massey, Dennis Price, Maggie Smith, David Lodge. It also featured Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier, later to feature prominently in Dad's Army...
, 1962 - The Roman Spring of Mrs. StoneThe Roman Spring of Mrs. StoneThe Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is a 1961 British film made by Seven Arts-Warner Bros. It was directed by José Quintero and produced by Louis De Rochemont with Lothar Wolff as associate producer. The screenplay was written by Gavin Lambert and Jan Read and based on the novel by Tennessee Williams...
, 1961 - Dr. Crippen, 1962
- Tamahine (1963)
- The Night of the GeneralsThe Night of the GeneralsThe Night of the Generals is a 1967 suspense thriller film directed by Anatole Litvak. Set during World War II, the story was adapted from the novel of the same name by Hans Hellmut Kirst. It stars Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet and Philippe Noiret.The...
, 1967 - The Killing of Sister GeorgeThe Killing of Sister GeorgeThe Killing of Sister George is a 1964 play by Frank Marcus that was adapted as a 1968 film directed by Robert Aldrich.- Stage version :Sister George is a beloved character in the popular radio series Applehurst, a nurse who ministers to the medical needs and personal problems of the local villagers...
, 1968 - The Legend of Lylah ClareThe Legend of Lylah ClareThe Legend of Lylah Clare is a 1968 Metrocolor film directed by Robert Aldrich. The film stars Peter Finch, Kim Novak, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Murphy and Valentina Cortese. The film was based on a 1962 Dupont Show of the Week TV drama co-written by Wild in the Streets creator Robert Thom.-Plot...
, 1968 - The Ruling ClassThe Ruling ClassThe Ruling Class is a 1972 British black comedy film. It is an adaptation of Peter Barnes' satirical stage play which tells the story of a paranoid schizophrenic British nobleman who inherits a peerage. The film costars Alastair Sim, William Mervyn, Coral Browne, Harry Andrews, Carolyn Seymour,...
, 1972 - Theatre of BloodTheatre of BloodTheatre of Blood is a horror film starring Vincent Price as vengeful actor Edward Lionheart and Diana Rigg as his daughter Edwina Lionheart. The cast includes such distinguished actors as Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Jack Hawkins, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, Joan Hickson, Robert...
, 1973 - The Drowning PoolThe Drowning Pool (film)The Drowning Pool is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, and based upon Ross Macdonald's novel The Drowning Pool. The film stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Anthony Franciosa, and is a sequel to Harper...
, 1975 - XanaduXanadu (film)Xanadu is a 1980 romantic musical fantasy film written by Marc Reid Rubel and directed by Robert Greenwald. The title is a reference to the poem "Kubla Khan, or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which is quoted in the film. Xanadu is the name of the Chinese province...
, 1980 (voice only) - Sparky's Magic Piano, 1982 (voice only)
- Eleanor, First Lady of the World, 1982
- An Englishman AbroadAn Englishman AbroadAn Englishman Abroad is a 1983 BBC television drama, based on the true story of a chance meeting of an actress, Coral Browne, with Guy Burgess , a member of the Cambridge spy ring who worked for the Soviet Union whilst with MI6...
, Screenonline 1983 - American Dreamer, 1984
- DreamchildDreamchildDreamchild is a 1985 British drama film produced by Verity Lambert, directed by Gavin Millar and written by Dennis Potter. It stars Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Nicola Cowper and Amelia Shankley and is a fictionalized account of Alice Liddell, the child who inspired Lewis Carroll's...
, 1985
Key TV
- The Guv'nor, 1955
- Charley's AuntCharley's AuntCharley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas. It broke all historic records for plays of any kind, with an original London run of 1,466 performances....
', 1969 - Mrs. Warren's ProfessionMrs. Warren's ProfessionMrs Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893. The story centers on the relationship between Mrs Kitty Warren, a brothel owner, described by the author as "on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman" and her daughter, Vivie...
, 1972 - Lady Windermere's FanLady Windermere's FanLady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893...
, 1972 - Time ExpressTime ExpressTime Express is a short-lived American fantasy TV series, broadcast April–May 1979 on CBS and later syndicated. The series was created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts who had both previously been involved in the creation of Charlie's Angels...
, 1979 - Caviar To The General, 1990
Notable Stage
- A Warm Corner Comedy Theatre, Mebourne c. 1930
- The Roof Comedy Theatre, Mebourne 1931
- Loyalties Comedy Theatre, Mebourne May 1931
- Hay Fever
- The Quaker Girl
- The Apple Cart
- Dear Brutus
- Hedda Gabler
- Children in Uniform Melbourne
- Command to Love Melbourne
- Mated 1934 or 1935
- Lover's Leap, Vaudeville Theatre London 1935
- Basalik, London Arts Theatre Club 1935
- Desirable Residence, Embassy Theatre London 1935
- Heroes Don't Care, St. Martin's Theatre, London 10 June 1936
- The Taming of the Shrew, New London Theatre 1936–1937
- The Great Romancer, New London Theatre 1937
- The Gusher, Prince's Theatre, London 1937
- Believe It Or Not, New Theatre, London March 1940
- The Man Who Came to Dinner, Theatre Royal, Birmingham, England, 17 November 1941
- The Man Who Came to Dinner, Savoy Theatre, London, 4 December 1941–42
- My Sister Eileen, Savoy Theatre, London, 1943
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Savoy Theatre, London 1943–44
- Lady Frederick, Savoy Theatre, London, November 1946
- Lady Frederick, Grand Theatre, Blackpool, 21 April 1947
- Lady Frederick, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 16 June 1947
- Canaries Sometimes Sing, Grand Theatre, Blackpool, 3 November 1947
- Castle in the Air, Adelphi Theatre, London, 1949–50
- Othello, Old Vic Theatre, London, 31 October 1951
- King Lear, Old Vic, London, 3 March 1952
- Affairs of State, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 28 July 1952
- Affairs of State, Cambridge Theatre, Cambridge Circus, 21 August 1952
- Affairs of State, Hippodrome, Bristol, 1953–54
- Simon And Laura, Strand Theatre, London, 1954
- Nina Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 27 July 1955
- Macbeth Old Vic, London, 1955–56
- Macbeth Hippodrome, Bristol, 1955–56
- Tamburlaine the Greatm Playbill Winter Garden Theatre, New York, 19 January - 4 February 1956
- Tamburlaine the Great, Stratford, Ontario, Canada
- Macbeth, Winter Garden Theatre, New York, 29 October 1956 – 12 January 1957
- Troilus and Cressida, Winter Garden Theatre, New York, 26 December 1956 – 12 January 1957
- Hamlet, Old Vic, London, 1957–58
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Old Vic, London, 1957–58
- The Pleasure of His Company, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 1957–58
- Toys In The Attic, Piccadilly Theatre, London, 10 November 1960
- Bonne Soupe, The Comedy Theatre London, 1960
- Bonne Soupe, New Theatre, Oxford, 26 September 1961
- Bonne Soupe, Wyndham's Theatre London, 13 February 1962
- The Rehearsal, Royale Theatre, New York, 23 September - 28 December 1963
- The Right Honourable Gentleman, Billy Rose Theatre, New York, 19 October 1965 – 22 January 1966
- Lady Windermere's Fan, Phoenix Theatre, London, 1966
- Lady Windermere's Fan, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 23 August 1966
- What the Butler Saw, Queen's Theatre, London, 1969
- My Darling Daisy, Lyric Theatre, London, 1970
- Mrs. Warren's Profession, Old Vic, London, 1970–71
- The Sea, Royal Court, London, 1973–74
- The Waltz of the Toreadors Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 1974
- Ardèle, Queen's Theatre, London, 1975
- Charley's Aunt, Cirque Dinner Theatre, Seattle, 12 August 1975
- Charley's Aunt Granny's Dinner Theatre, Dallas, 16 March – 10 April 1976
- Charley's Aunt, National U.S. tour, 10 May – 26 June 1976
- The Importance of Being Earnest, Mark Taper ForumMark Taper ForumThe Mark Taper Forum is a 739 seat thrust stage at the Los Angeles Music Center built by Welton Becket and Associates on the Bunker Hill section of downtown Los Angeles...
, Los Angeles, 1976 - Travesties, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1976
External links
- Coral Browne Collection at the Performing Arts CollectionPerforming Arts CollectionThe Performing Arts Collection at the Arts Centre, Melbourne is the largest specialist performing arts collection in Australia, with over 450,000 items relating to the history of circus, dance, music, opera and theatre in Australia and of Australian performers overseas.- Highlights of the...
, Arts Centre, Melbourne - Coral Browne website