Mrs. Warren's profession

Resource Information

The work Mrs. Warren's profession represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Dallas Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Mrs. Warren's profession

Statement of responsibility

by Bernard Shaw ; BBC ; producer, Cedric Messina ; directed by Herbert Wise

Title variation

Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's profession

Contributor

• 2 Entertain (Firm)
• BBC Video (Firm)
• British Broadcasting Corporation
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Browne, Coral, 1913-1991
• Clark, Ernest, 1912-1994
• Clarke, Warren, 1947-2014
• Cusack, Cyril, 1910-1993
• Godfrey, Derek
• Grout, James, 1927-
• Jones, David, 1934-2008
• Jones, James Cellan, 1930-
• Magee, Patrick
• Markham, Kika
• Messina, Cedric
• Nicholls, Kate
• Parfitt, Judy, 1935-
• Pearson, Richard, 1918-
• Powell, Robert, 1944-
• Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
• Stephenson, Geraldine
• Wilton, Penelope, 1946-
• Wise, Herbert

Subject

• Family -- England -- Drama
• Melodrama, English
• Mothers and daughters -- England -- Drama
• Prostitution -- England -- Drama
• Television comedies
• Television plays
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Women in the professions -- England -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Melodrama, English
• Television comedies
• Television plays
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

eng

Summary

• "What is the profession that has enabled Mrs. Warren to give her daughter all the benefits of 'good society'? Vivie Warren discovers her mother's secrets and embraces her own power as a 'modern' woman"--Container
• In the bonus play, "Mrs. Landfrey and her three children return to England after 18 years abroad, where a chance encounter with their traditionalist husband and father quickly entangles them in a series of comic events"--Container

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music, Richard Holmes ; choreography, Geraldine Stephenson

Dewey number

• 791.43/72
• 791.45/72

Language note

Closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1995.9.W6

LC item number

B476373 2006

PerformerNote

Coral Browne, Penelope Wilton, James Grout, Derek Godfrey, Robert Powell, Richard Pearson

Runtime

109

Series statement

• Play of the month
• BBC Video classics
• The Shaw collection

Target audience

general

Technique

live action