Dorothy Brandon

Dorothy Brandon was a British playwright active in the interwar years. Her greatest West End success was the 1923 medical drama The Outsider^[1] which was revived several times, and adapted into films on three occasions.^[2]

An earlier hit was 1917's Wild Heather which ran at the Strand Theatre for 79 performances.^[3] It was also made into a film.^[4] A 1926 play Blind Alley was less successful, running for thirteen performances.^[5]

Selected plays[edit]

Wild Heather (1917)
Araminta Arrives (1921)
The Outsider (1923)
Blind Alley (1926)

References[edit]

^ Wearing The London Stage 1920-1929. p.231-32
^ Goble p.899
^ Gale p.198
^ Goble p.1017
^ Gale p.206

Bibliography[edit]

Gale, Maggie. West End Women: Women and the London Stage 1918 - 1962. Routledge, 2008.
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

External links[edit]

Dorothy Brandon at IMDb

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[1] Wearing The London Stage 1920-1929. p.231-32

[2] Goble p.899

[3] Gale p.198

[4] Goble p.1017

[5] Gale p.206

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