''The First Mrs. Fraser'' is a 1929 play by the Irish writer St. John Ervine. After his second wife leaves him for somebody else, a man returns to his true love - his first wife. The play has been revived a number of times and is one of Ervine's best-known works.

Adaptations

In 1932 the play was turned into a British film '' The First Mrs. Fraser'' directed by

Sinclair Hill Sinclair Hill (10 June 1896 – 6 March 1945) was a British film director, film producer, producer and screenwriter. He directed nearly fifty films between 1920 and 1939. He was born as George Sinclair-Hill in London in 1894. He was awarded an O ...

.Oakley p.112 It was followed by a 1950 television film and a 1955 German film which drew heavily on the plot. In 1967, the play was adapted for BBC radio by Cynthia Pughe.

References

Bibliography

Oakley, Charles Allen. ''Where We Came In: Seventy Years of the British Film Industry''. Routledge, 2013.

External links

Full text of ''The First Mrs. Fraser''
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