
Mrs. Patterson
Eartha Kitt stars as a teenage girl in a Kentucky shanty-town, who dreams of escaping from her boredom at home to the garish, alluring city of Chicago. (1956)
A play about race and adolescence set in the Deep South of America about 1920, written by African-American painter-playwright Charles Sebree and Greer Johnson.
Eartha Kitt stars as Teddy Hicks, a poor, illegitimate, black 15-year-old who spends her time daydreaming about living a life of luxury like her mother’s wealthy and well-travelled white employer, 'Mrs Patterson'. But the daydreams can’t suppress the reality of her life as a teenage girl in a Kentucky shanty-town and she agrees to run off to Chicago with Willie B., the boy-next-door.
This production was something of a landmark in an era when plays on British television were almost exclusively written by white authors and performed by white actors. (1956)
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Writer | Charles Sebree |
Writer | Greer Johnson |
Production Designer | Stephen Taylor |
Producer | Anthony Pelissier |
Theodora 'Teddy' Hicks | Eartha Kitt |
Anna Hicks | Evelyn Dove |
Mrs. Patterson | Estelle Winwood |
Bessie Bolt | Elisabeth Welch |
Broadcast
- Sun 17 Jun 1956 20:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Television Service
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