The Fake (play)

The Fake is a 1924 play by the British writer Frederick Lonsdale. It was staged at the Apollo Theatre in the West End with a cast that included Godfrey Tearle, Franklyn Bellamy and Allan Jeayes. Unlike most of his successful plays, generally farce-like comedies, this was intended as a serious drama although it contains a happy ending. It ran for 211 performances.

When the play transferred to Broadway, Claudette Colbert was originally cast as the female lead, but was replaced by Frieda Inescort.[1]

Film adaptation

In 1927 it was turned into a British silent film The Fake directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Henry Edwards, Elga Brink, Juliette Compton and Miles Mander.

References

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Bibliography

Dick, Bernard F. Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty. University Press of Mississippi, 2008.
Donaldson, Frances. Freddy Lonsdale. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011.

Musicals and plays by Frederick Lonsdale

King of Cadonia (1908, libretto)
The Balkan Princess (1910, libretto)
Betty (1915, libretto)
The Maid of the Mountains (1917, libretto)
Monsieur Beaucaire (1919, libretto adaptation)
Madame Pompadour (1923, libretto adaptation)
Aren't We All? (1923)
The Street Singer (1924, libretto)
The Fake (1924)
Spring Cleaning (1925)
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1925)
On Approval (1926)
The High Road (1927)
Canaries Sometimes Sing (1929)
But for the Grace of God (1946)
The Way Things Go (1950)

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