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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Cast

Michael Redgrave
Jack Worthing
Michael Denison
Algernon Moncrieff
Gwendolyn Fairfax
Dorothy Tutin
Cecily Cardew
Edith Evans
Lady Bracknell
Margaret Rutherford
Miss Letitia Prism
Richard Wattis
Seaton, Worthing's Butler
Walter Hudd
Lane, Algy's Butler
Miles Malleson
Canon Chasuble
Aubrey Mather
Merriman, the country Butler

Plot

Based on Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners set in England during the Victorian era. Jack and Algernon are two wealthy bachelors. Jack is in love with Gwendolen, while Algernon is attracted to Jack's ward Cecily. Not surprisingly complication arises as each of the girls think that they are engaged to Ernest (who doesn't exist), and to complicate things further Gwendolen's mother Lady Bracknell arrives.

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Theme from The Importance of Being Earnest (1952). Two wealthy and eligible bachelors of the 1890s have problems with their marriage prospects.
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Production Information

The Importance of Being Earnest - GB (Rank/Javelin/Two Cities), 1952, 95 minutes, Technicolor, Oscar Wilde (Novel), Anthony Asquith (Writer and Director).
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