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Frederick Lonsdale (5 February 1881 – 4 April 1954) was a British playwright known for his librettos to several successful musicals early in the 20th century, including King of Cadonia (1908), The Balkan Princess (1910), Betty (1915), The Maid of the Mountains (1917), Monsieur Beaucaire (1919) and Madame Pompadour (1923).
Frederick Leonard Lonsdale (born Feb. 5, 1881, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, U.K.—died April 4, 1954, London, Eng.) was a British playwright and librettist whose lightweight comedies of manners were admired because of their tight construction and epigrammatic wit. Lonsdale established himself as a librettist of musical comedies, chief ...
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On Approval is a 1926 play by Frederick Lonsdale. It premiered at the Gaiety Theatre, New York, on 18 October 1926 where it ran for 96 performances. It opened in the West End of London at the Fortune Theatre on 19 April 1927 and ran until 2 June 1928.
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. (play) Programme for original production. 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.
Sep 8, 2020 · The Last of Mrs. Cheyney is a 1925 play by British playwright Frederick Lonsdale. A popular success in London, England, it was adapted four times as a film, ...
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Frederick Lonsdale was born on 5 February 1881 in St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. He was a writer, known for The Devil to Pay! (1930), The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937) and The Lady of Scandal (1930).
Frederick. [LEONARD, Lionel Frederick] (b St Helier, Jersey, 5 February 1881; d London, 4 April 1954). Variously a private soldier, an employee of the London and South Western Railway and a winning layabout, the young Lonsdale struggled for a number of years to make a career as a playwright until his wife, who had taken a job as a chorus girl ...
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