• Sumner Locke Elliott (17 October 1917 – 24 June 1991) was an Australian (later American) novelist and playwright. Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer...
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  • The Cow Jumped Over the Moon (category Stage plays by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    Australian stage play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It was the first stage play by Elliott who was only twenty years old when it debuted. Elliott's biographer said...
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  • Water Under the Bridge (miniseries) (category Works by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    Under the Bridge is a 1980 miniseries based on the 1977 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott. The budget was $1.5 million. Robyn Nevin as Shasta David Cameron...
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  • Buy Me Blue Ribbons (category Stage plays by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    Buy Me Blue Ribbons was a 1951 play by Australian writer Sumner Locke Elliott. It was one of the few Broadway plays to be written by an Australian. The...
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  • Careful, He Might Hear You (novel) (category Novels by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    You is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Sumner Locke Elliott. It was published in 1963 and was the author's first novel. Careful...
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    Helena Sumner Locke (4 July 1881 – 18 October 1917) was an Australian novelist, dramatist/playwright, poet and short story writer. Her sister was the socialist...
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  • Crazy Family (category Radio plays by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    Australian radio series by Sumner Locke Elliott for the George Edwards Players. It was about the eccentric Bonnett family. Elliott appeared as a regular cast...
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  • Careful, He Might Hear You (film) (category Works by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    on the 1963 novel of the same name by Australian-American author Sumner Locke Elliott. The film stars Wendy Hughes and Robyn Nevin as two sisters who are...
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  • Bondage (Studio One) (1949) - starring Charlton Heston adapted by Sumner Locke Elliott Of Human Bondage (1934) – Leslie Howard as Philip and Bette Davis...
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  • Foster) at King Street 8 May 1937 – One-act plays by George Cassidy, Sumner Locke Elliott, John Alden, Trafford Whitelock at clubrooms, King Street 15 May...
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  • Of Human Bondage (Studio One) (category Works by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    series Studio One. The adaptation was by Sumner Locke Elliott and the success of the show helped launch Elliott's television career. The show had a script...
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  • Liggett & Myers (L&M cigarettes). Writers included Larry Cohen and Sumner Locke Elliott. The only adaptation from one of Dahl's own short stories was the...
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  • Interval (play) (category Stage plays by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    Interval is a 1939 play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It was popular and was performed throughout Australia at a time when this was not common for local plays...
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    Nickell and Jo's Story by Lela Swift. It featured a teleplay by Sumner Locke Elliott and starred Nancy Marchand as Jo, June Dayton as Beth, Peg Hillias...
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  • performance played during the break Interval (play), a 1939 play by Sumner Locke Elliott Interval (film), a 1973 film starring Merle Oberon Interval (music)...
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    The Invisible Circus (play) (category Stage plays by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    Sumner Locke Elliott set in the world of commercial radio drama, a field that Elliott knew well from many years writing for George Edwards. Elliott is...
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  • Jezebel's Daughter (category Radio plays by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    Jezebel's Daughter is a 1941 Australian radio serial by Sumner Locke Elliott for the George Edwards Players. The serial was one of the most successful...
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    Daisy, Daisy (TV play) (category Works by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    Daisy, Daisy is a 1955 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott that aired as an episode of Playwrights '56. It was based on the Ern Malley hoax...
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  • Goodbye to the Music (category Stage plays by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    stage play by Sumner Locke Elliott. Elliott said it was written "during the time I was severely under the influence of Emlyn Williams." Elliott himself appeared...
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  • into radio through offering a play to George Edwards. According to Sumner Locke Elliott who worked with Francis the author: Was capable of turning out hundreds...
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  • The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (category Works by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    "The Grey Nurse Said Nothing" is a television play written by Sumner Locke Elliott. It was based on elements of the Shark Arm case but is mostly fictitious...
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  • Members of the board included names such as Dymphna Cusack and Sumner Locke Elliott. The Board ceased operations in 1963. The Board's most notable achievement...
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  • Rusty Bugles (category Stage plays by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    Rusty Bugles was a controversial Australian play written by Sumner Locke Elliott in 1948. It toured extensively throughout Australia between 1948–1949...
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  • Girl of the Ballet (category Radio plays by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    Girl of the Ballet is a 1942 Australian radio serial by Sumner Locke Elliott for the George Edwards Company. It was the story of "an insignificant milliner...
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  • Scarlet Rhapsody (category Radio plays by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    Scarlet Rhapsody is a 1947 Australian radio serial by Sumner Locke Elliott for the George Edwards Players. The serial was one of the most successful from...
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  • The Crater (TV play) (category Works by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    The Crater is a 1948 Australian radio play by Sumner Locke Elliot that was later adapted for American television. Bert Turner is the new schoolteacher...
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    productions for Doris Fitton at the Savoy Theatre, some with a young Sumner Locke Elliott. He also worked as a sideshow spruiker at the Sydney Royal Easter...
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  • Edens Lost (novel) (category Works by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    Edens Lost (1969) is a novel by Australian writer Sumner Locke Elliott. The novel is a family saga told through the eyes of 16-year-old Angus Weekes who...
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  • We Were Children (The Philco Television Playhouse) (category Works by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    "We Were Children" is a 1952 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It originally aired as an episode of The Philco Television Playhouse produced...
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  • Ride a Cock Horse (play) (category Radio plays by Sumner Locke Elliott)
    Australian radio play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It aired as an episode of Lux Radio Theatre and was one of the last plays Elliott wrote in Australia before...
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