Television Versions
A UK television production in 1960 featured Edith Evans as Judith Bliss and Maggie Smith as Jackie Coryton. They later played in Hay Fever on stage under the author's direction in the National Theatre revival in 1964 with Smith switching from the ingénue role of Jackie to that of the vampish Myra. Other members of the television cast were Pamela Brown, George Devine, Paul Eddington and Richard Wattis. The Times reviewed this broadcast, calling Hay Fever "Mr Noel Coward's best play... one of the most perfectly engineered comedies of the century." A further UK television production in 1968 included Lucy Fleming as Sorel, Ian McKellen as Simon, Celia Johnson as Judith, Dennis Price as David, Richard Briers as Sandy, Anna Massey as Myra, Charles Gray as Richard, and Vickery Turner as Jackie.
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