Fantastic Summer
Fantastic Summer is a 1955 British television play based on a novel by Dorothy Macardle adapted by Barry Learoyd.
It was Marilyn James' first television appearance. It was also Fay Compton's "first full scale TV appearance" since The Foolish Gentleman in 1953.
Compton called the script "exceptionally good."
Mairlyn James broke her ankle during filming after she tripped over a cable, but she continued the performance without the audience being aware.
Cast
- Fay Compton as Virgilia Wilde
- Margaret Boyd as Brigid Reece
- Ian Fleming as Dr. Bernard Franks
- Ronald Lewis as Perry Franks
- Marilyn James as Nan Wilde
- Peter Murphy as Timeen
- Mary Laura Wood as Sal Vaughan
- Simon Lack as Garret Ingram
- Jessica Dunning as Pamela Ingram
- Derek Sydney as Carlo Ferrari
Reception
The Guardian called it "easy to watch, exciting at times."The Manchester Evening News called it "flatly written and too slight."
The Daily Telegraph felt "this was a play so disjointed, so flatly written and so long to working up to any sort of situation that it seemed to be double its length."