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More than Meets the Eye

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  6w, 5m

Fred Carmichael

When produced in summer stock at Dorset, Vermont, this comedy broke all records. It concerns Stanley Nichols who writes successful children's stories under the pen name of Grandma Letty. He is voted "Grandmother of the Year" and his house is besieged by reporters and photographers. Afraid that expos…

More than Meets the Eye

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    6w, 5m

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When produced in summer stock at Dorset, Vermont, this comedy broke all records. It concerns Stanley Nichols who writes successful children's stories under the pen name of Grandma Letty. He is voted "Grandmother of the Year" and his house is besieged by reporters and photographers. Afraid that exposure as a juvenile writer will jeopardize the chances of his serious new novel, Stanley has to produce a Grandma. After all else fails, he impersonates the lady.
History
The Dorset Playhouse in 1953

MAUDE
PEGGY
NORA
CHRISTINE
STANLEY
BRADLEY
PRUDENCE HARPER
CARL HENDERSON
CYRIL B. HOSKIN
MISS JENKINS

  • Setting The home of Stanley Nichols in a small Midwestern town. A day in spring.

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Fred Carmichael

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