40-yr-old TV dramas starring Sean Connery and Maggie Smith found
September 13th, 2010 - 1:27 pm ICT by ANILondon, Sep 13 (ANI): America’s Library of Congress has rediscovered an archive of 40-year-old TV dramas.
The dramas feature stars including Sir Sean Connery, Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Michael Gambon at the start of their career.
Researchers were delighted after unearthing hundreds of hours of lost British dramas from 1957 and 1970 in the archive in Washington, D.C.
The footage includes performances from several of Britain’s biggest acting stars, including Connery in a production of Jean Anouilh’s ‘Colombe’ from 1960 and a 1967 production of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ starring Smith.
Jane Asher can be seen in a 1962 school production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, while Gambon has a bit part in a 1967 staging of the same tragic love story.
Officials at the Library of Congress have agreed to loan the broadcasts to the British Film Institute (BFI) to showcase the highlights in November (10).
“Negotiations to secure the release of these dramas have been going on for some time and we have been holding on to the information until the time is right. It is very exciting, but we don’t have all the information yet, ” the Daily Express quoted a spokesperson for the BFI as saying. (ANI)
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