philly

i'm trying to collect the extant tv works of Sybil Thorndike ,probably an impossible task.The only title commercially available is UNCLE VANYA which i have.I have also obtained her two appearances on ARMCHAIR THEATRE.These i'm looking for
1954 DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR. PRESENTS ; THE HEIRLOOM
1954 DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR. PRESENTS ;MR. SAMPSON
1959 SUNDAY NIGHT THEATRE ; WATERS OF THE MOON
1960 RIDERS TO THE SEA
1963 THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS ; A TRIBUTE TO JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
1965 GREAT ACTING
1965 PLAY OF THE MONTH ; A PASSAGE TO INDIA
1967 LATE NIGHT LINE-UP 20-3 67,17-2-68,21-10-69
1968 TEMPO ; THE ACTOR AND THE ROLE ;PLAYING MEDEA
1970 OMNIBUS; ANNA PAVLOVA
1970 AN EVENING WITH SYBIL THORNDIKE AND HUGH CASSON
1970 (30-12-70) SYBIL THORNDIKE REMEMBERS
1973 (10-3-73) RUSSELL HARTY PLUS
or anything else i don't know about

TimR

I think she was in a television film called Hand in Hand. I am sure it was a British film, but made for television. it must have been made in the mid 60s. I'm deliberately not looking it up. I want to see how much I can recall.

All of this is based on a memory from forty years ago. I was about six or seven - it had a great impact on me. It is about a Catholic boy and a Jewish firl who become friends.

For me, it was one of those British films that made me realize how different they were from the homegrown product (home being the US) - films like Sammy Goes South and Wee Geordie. I've been hooked ever since.

"Home was never like this"

"Mine was"

philly

I'm pretty sure Hand in Hand was a cinema film. Interestingly one of Sybil Thorndike's 60's tv plays THE FATHER now "junked" was also filmed seperately in NTSC and colour for US tv, i'd love to know if that's survived.

petandav

It's funny how one's memory plays tricks. For many years I laboured under the illusion that Sybil Thorndike and Athene Seyler had appeared in a film "Arsenic and Old Lace". I was only partly right - it was, in fact, a radio adaptation. Old age!!!

aphra

I have Dame Sybil in A PASSAGE TO INDIA with Zia Mohyeddin as Dr Aziz. If you can lay hands on WATERS OF THE MOON we could do a trade. Send me a PM with an e-mail address where I can reach you. Best, 'aphra'

philly

additional Sybil Thorndike wants
1960 THIS IS YOUR LIFE : DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE
1968 YOUR NATIONAL THEATRE
1972 THIS IS NOEL COWARD