''Fantastic Summer'' is a 1955 British television play based on a novel by
Dorothy Macardle
Dorothy Macardle (7 March 1889 in Dundalk – 23 December 1958 in Drogheda)Luke Gibbons, ''The Irish Times'', Weekend Review, "A Cosmopolitan Reclaimed: A Review of ''Dorothy Macardle: A Life''", by Nadia Clare Smith, 10 November 2007, p.13 was ...
adapted by Barry Learoyd.
It was Marilyn James' first television appearance. It was also Fay Compton's "first full scale TV appearance" since ''The Foolish Gentleman'' in 1953.
Compton called the script "exceptionally good."
Mairlyn James broke her ankle during filming after she tripped over a cable, but she continued the performance without the audience being aware.
Cast
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Fay Compton
Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie, (; 18 September 1894 – 12 December 1978), known professionally as Fay Compton, was an English actress. She appeared in several films, and made many broadcasts, but was best known for her stage per ...
as Virgilia Wilde
*Margaret Boyd as Brigid Reece
*Ian Fleming as Dr. Bernard Franks
*Ronald Lewis as Perry Franks
*Marilyn James as Nan Wilde
*Peter Murphy as Timeen
*Mary Laura Wood as Sal Vaughan
*Simon Lack as Garret Ingram
*Jessica Dunning as Pamela Ingram
*Derek Sydney as Carlo Ferrari
Reception
''The Guardian'' called it "easy to watch, exciting at times."
''The Manchester Evening News'' called it "flatly written and too slight."
''The Daily Telegraph'' felt "this was a play so disjointed, so flatly written and so long to working up to any sort of situation that it seemed to be double its length."
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*{{IMDB title, id=4849216
1955 television plays