The Chalk Garden
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The Chalk Garden by Enid Bagnold is:
- A 1955 Broadway play produced by Irene M. Selznick designed by Cecil Beaton. Gladys Cooper appeared as Mrs. St Maugham, with Siobhán McKenna as Miss Madrigal.
- A 1964 film with Dame Edith Evans as Mrs. St. Maugham, and Deborah Kerr as Miss Madrigal, and Hayley Mills as Laurel a disturbed child, and Sir John Mills as the butler Maitland. directed by Ronald Neame(CBE).
The play was inspired by Miss Bagnold's own garden at North End House in Rottingdean, near Brighton, Sussex, the former home of Sir Edward Burne-Jones.
It was first staged in London at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in April 1956, directed by Sir John Gielgud with Dame Edith Evans as Mrs. St Maugham, and Peggy Ashcroft as Miss Madrigal.
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