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George Batson

GEORGE BATSON

  (1918 - 1977)
Nationality:    USA
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George Batson's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of George Batson's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Broom For the Bride         Dangerous Nan Mcgrew         Date With April, A         Design For Murder         Doctor Has A Daughter         Every Family Has One         Gift Of Murder!         Hangman's Noose         Her Majesty, Miss Jones         House On the Cliff, The         I Found April         Its Spring Again         Magnolia Alley         Miss Private Eye         Murder At Midnight         Murder On Arrival         Punch and Julia         Ramshackle Inn         Rehearsal For Dearh         Strange Boarders         Terrible Turners, The         Treat Her Gently         Two Faces Of Murder

Broom For the Bride

Synopsis:
Linda's mother has insisted that she marry ernest who has a rich aunt. Her ex-fiance a reporter arrives intent on breaking up the couple. a crook and his niece pretend to be reporters. the aunt is mistaken for the new maid and put to work. So the reporter dresses up as the aunt

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1948

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  8            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Dangerous Nan Mcgrew

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
-     1949

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Date With April, A

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Royale Theatre, NY     15 Apr 1953

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Design For Murder

Synopsis:
a couple of juicy killings at the magnificent old mansion and the identity of the culprit well concealed

Notes:
aka Murder At Midnight

1st Produced:
-     1960

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1960   -

Music:
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Genre:
Mystery thriller Mystery

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Doctor Has A Daughter

Synopsis:
the doctor's daughter just wants everyone to be happy - but all her schemes to help end in disaster

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1943

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Every Family Has One

Every Family Has One
the Reardon family. the grandmother collects Bing Crosby records, the Father tinkers with his car, the mother social climbs, the daughter is a crack shot with a sling, the son believes he is the second William Shakespeare

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1942

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York   978-0573608667

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Gift Of Murder!

Synopsis:
the scene is an estate cottage in the north of england, where the famous actress, StElla Cavendish, accompanied by her attractive young niece, Mary, is recuperating from a hectic season and a bit too much high living. they are looked after by a cook-housekeeper (and local character) named Wimpi, and are soon joined by Dennis Mordaunt, Stella's producer and would-be suitor, and her fellow actress and arch rival, Flavia Dartega. and in the surprise appearance of Oliver Keane (Stella's former leading man) and his dashing young nephew Peter (who is immediately captivated by Mary), and both the plot and the romantic possibilities quicken. the arrival of the bustling Nurse Pepper rounds out the cast and begins the progression of chilling (and frequently funny) events (including murder, actual and attempted) leading on to the unexpected and ingeniously devised denouement-in which the true identity of the villain is shielded until the last possible moment.

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Thriller Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Hangman's Noose

Synopsis:
the family of Caroline Keating gather for the reading of her will. then the murders start - the housekeeper and then the lawyer. Just when the murderer is unmasked Caroline appears - she had been entombed alive

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1947

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Mystery

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Her Majesty, Miss Jones

Synopsis:
This uproarious comedy concerns the complications that ensue when a popular television personality comes to a suburban town to open a new supermarket. the Robinsons and their neighbors are average citizens, but when Monica Marshall arrives in their midst the results are mirth provoking and unexpected. the cramped household is increased by Clara Jones, attractive young spinster, whom Monica sets about helping to trap the elusive Mr. Higbee. However, without the aid of her script writer, Monica gets herself and the Robinson family into many hilarious and outrageous situations. Young PFC Ken Robinson, having met Monica at the army camp, has been nursing a deep infatuation for her. This causes Helen, the girl next door, to resort to drastic strategy to regain his interest. Further fun develops when Tim Hayden, ambitious boy-reporter covering the TV star's trip for the local paper, releases the news that she and young Ken are engaged. This brings Ken's Commanding Officer quickly to the scene. He and Monica are sec

Notes:
written with Donn Harman

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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House On the Cliff, The

House On the Cliff, The
body on the beach, paralysed hystEric, detective as nurse and murderous impersonator

Notes:
aka Solitaire Lady; from TV play by George Batson And D Harman

1st Produced:
-     1957

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1957   978-0573011900

Music:
-

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Genre:
Mystery Comedy Mystery

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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I Found April

Synopsis:
the romance between a brilliant pianist - elsa ashley and the famous novelist Val Corbett. However he wants to remain single and she is very jealous

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1954

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Ltd London 1954   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Its Spring Again

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1947

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Magnolia Alley

Synopsis:
a boarding house in a Southern American town. a landlady fond of the drink, a boxer's wife, a call girl

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Mansfield Theatre, New York     18 Apr 1949

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Miss Private Eye

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1951

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Murder At Midnight

Synopsis:
Celia Brecht is a successful author and the very possessive mother of her moody and neurotic son David, an aspiring painter. She has recently dismissed her secretary Kathy without notice, but within hours Kathy's body is found in the garden. . . This tale of petty jealousies and secret assignations is a nail-biting Drama of human relationships.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Ltd London    978-0573012907

Music:
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Murder On Arrival

Synopsis:
Who dunnit at a cottage in Cornwall, but somebody's pinched the bullets.

Notes:
aka Brook Hollow

1st Produced:
Frinton     07 Aug 1958

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1960   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Thriller 3 act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Wearing - the London Stage 59.137

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Punch and Julia

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1942

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Ramshackle Inn

Synopsis:
an old maid librarian has saved her money for twenty years, in order to buy a hotel where she can meet interesting people. She purchases a strange tumble-down place near the ocean, and gets what she bargains for-plus a good deal besides. the imperturbable librarian encounters ghosts and secret trunks, she wanders through mysterious situations and thunderstorms, she meets with Drama and comedy, the living and the dead, and somehow manages to emerge at the end none the worse for her extraordinary experience.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     05 Jan 1944

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Mystery Farce Mystery

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Rehearsal For Dearh

Synopsis:
a has been actress is due to appear in a play she receives a letter stating that if she carries on with the play there will be terrible consequences. She goes on. In the scene where her character is shot the actor playing her murderer fires his gun but it is a critic watching who falls dead

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1949

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
MeloDrama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Strange Boarders

Synopsis:
a delightful scatterbrained maiden lady runs a boarding-house. Out of her goodness, Cordelia has adopted two girls-Candy and Gloria-practically adopted a delightful sea captain, and the "Professor" -both of them, like herself, impractical. Chiefly the play revolves round the efforts of an amusing band of bank robbers to elude the police in nearby Boston and get away with $10,000 in cash, which is brought to Cordelia's home by the Misses amity and Priscilla Haines, who take rooms as respectable school teachers. To Cordelia's home also come Smiley, a sad-faced thug, Joey, a petty gangster, and the "Deacon," a fellow with much false piety and a benign manner. the gangsters, having seized the money stolen by the "brains" of the band, attempt to hide from their leader and keep the money themselves. Boston Benny, the "brains," unexpectedly appears, and tries to get even with his partners. Up to now Cordelia, vainly trying to organize her boarding-house on systematic principles, thinks that all the nice ladies and g

Notes:
written with Jack Kirkland

1st Produced:
-     1947

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy Mystery Mystery

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  7            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Terrible Turners, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1951

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Treat Her Gently

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Amarillo, Texas     29 Mar 1939

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
3 act comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Two Faces Of Murder

Synopsis:
the Colby family live in a crumbling mansion. the ancient matriarch, her daughter, the daughter's nephew and the young housekeeper. the nephew's widowed sister-in-law comes to stay and so does the mother's vivacious sister. each member of the household receives a voodoo doll and then the bodies start mounting up

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York   -

Music:
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Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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