Afternoon of a Nymph
| "Afternoon of a Nymph" | |
|---|---|
| Armchair Theatre episode | |
| Directed by | Philip Saville |
| Teleplay by | Robert Muller |
| Original air date | September 30, 1962 |
Afternoon of a Nymph is an episode of the British Armchair Theatre series made by the ITV franchise holder ABC Weekend TV and first broadcast by the ITV network on 30 September 1962.[1] It was written by Robert Muller and features Janet Munro and Ian Hendry in the lead roles. It was directed by Philip Saville and produced by Sydney Newman.
Premise
[edit]A young woman wants to be an actress.
Production
[edit]Sydney Newman recalled that Muller, a showbiz columnist, "thought he would like to try his hand at a TV play about the grind of an unknown curvy actress trying to succeed in the cutthroat showbiz world of randy men. I sicced Peter Luke onto Robert and eventually we got a dandy script, which, again, Philip Saville directed most imaginatively. "[2]
Reception
[edit]The second of Muller's seven plays for Armchair Theatre, Mark Duguid writes: "Although it lacks the cynical bite of, say, Alexander Mackendrick's The Sweet Smell of Success (US, 1957), Muller's script convincingly evokes the sordid shallows of showbiz."[1]
A contemporary reviewer, Maurice Wiggins in The Sunday Times described the play negatively as being "a pretentious affair".[3]
Variety wrote "rrouble with the script was that Muller cleverly and sharply drew the background and witty dialog, but he couldn't win much sympathy for Elaine."[4]
Hendry and Munro married in 1963.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Duguid, Mark (2003–14). "Afternoon of a Nymph (1962)". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
- ^ Newman, Sydney (2017). Head of drama : the memoir of Sydney Newman. p. 324.
- ^ White, Leonard (2003). Armchair Theatre: The Lost Years. Tiverton, Devon: Kelly Publications. p. 69.
- ^ "Armchair Theatre". Variety. 17 October 1962. p. 37.
External links
[edit]- "Afternoon of a Nymph" at IMDb
- Afternoon of a Nymph at BFI Screenonline