| 词条 | Hugh Hastings |
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LifeHastings's Seagulls Over Sorrento made theater history by running for 1,551 performances at London's Apollo Theatre. Only two other plays had then run longer in theater history: Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit; and R. F. Delderfield's Worm's Eye View.[4] Part of the play's appeal was that it was radical for the time. The play was set inside a Royal Navy research station near Scapa Flow. The play was not popular with everyone, and not everyone saw the humor in it. It elicited subdued laughs as well as frowns, depending on whether the audience was liberal or conservative.[4] He estimated he made ₤50,000 from Sorrento.[5] The fortune grew to £100,000 when in 1954 a film version made by the Boulting Brothers was released.[4] Hastings also has a movie role to his name, although his appearance was uncredited. He worked on the script of the 1952 film The Gift Horse. It was in that movie that he acted. Hastings also wrote the dialogues for a Marghanita Laski melodrama, It Started In Paradise (1952). He also wrote another naval play, Red Dragon. It was based on the 1949 Yangtze Incident, which involved {{HMS|Amethyst|F116|6}}. The play failed to make an impression. And in fact none of his other works reached the success levels of Sorrento. Even different versions of his most famous work failed to succeed. The television version of Sorrento was broadcast in 1960 with no real impact. He also financed and wrote a musical version, entitled Scapa, which ran for a few weeks at the Adelphi Theatre in 1962.[4] Select credits
References1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28665851 |title=Australian Makes Grade In London. |newspaper=The Sunday Herald |location=Sydney |date=20 November 1949 |accessdate=10 January 2014 |page=6 Supplement: Features |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55456297 |title=Australian's play is big hit in West End. |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly | date=24 February 1951 |accessdate=10 January 2014 |page=15 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41489896 |title=Playwright finds a seagull over Sydney. |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly | date=28 January 1953 |accessdate=10 January 2014 |page=21 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^1 2 3 {{Cite newspaper|last=Barker|first=Dennis|title=Hugh Hastings|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jan/11/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|journal=The Guardian|accessdate=10 January 2014|date=2005-01-11}} 5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59690058 |title=HE'S THE "BARON OF BEEFCAKE". |newspaper=The Sunday Times |location=Perth |date=30 May 1954 |accessdate=10 January 2014 |page=22 Edition: COUNTRY EDITION |publisher=National Library of Australia}} External links
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