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Emlyn Williams

February 15, 2024

For other people named Emlyn Williams, see Emlyn Williams (disambiguation).

George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987) was a Welsh writer, dramatist and actor.

Emlyn Williams
CBE
Williams in 1974, portrait by Allan Warren
Born
George Emlyn Williams

(1905-11-26)26 November 1905
Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales, UK
Died25 September 1987(1987-09-25) (aged 81)
London, England, UK
Occupation(s)Writer, dramatist, actor
Years active1927–1985

Early life edit

Williams was born into a Welsh-speaking, working class family at 1 Jones Terrace, Pen-y-ffordd, Ffynnongroyw, Flintshire. He was the eldest of the three surviving sons of Mary (née Williams) a former maid-servant and Richard Williams, a greengrocer.[1] He spoke only Welsh until the age of eight. Later, he said he would probably have begun working in the mines at age 12 if he had not caught the attention of Sarah Grace Cooke, the model for Miss Moffat in The Corn Is Green. She was a teacher of French at the grammar school in Holywell, Flintshire in 1915, where Williams had gone on a scholarship. Over the next seven years she encouraged him in his studies and helped pay for him to stay with a French friend of hers in Haute-Savoie in France, where he spent three months perfecting his French. When he was 17 she helped him win a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied French and Italian.[2]

In 1926, during his studies at university, Williams had a nervous breakdown, which was blamed largely on a failed emotional friendship with another undergraduate. As a means of recovery Miss Cooke encouraged him to write.[3] However, Williams intended to enter the theatrical world too and joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS).[4]

Professional career edit

Aged 22, Williams performed with OUDS in his first full-length play, Full Moon, at the original Oxford Playhouse in 1927. Later that year he joined a London-based repertory company and began his stage career. By age 25 (1930), he had expanded his writing with works such as A Murder Has Been Arranged and The Late Christopher Bean. The same year he appeared in Edgar Wallace's hit thriller On the Spot in the West End.

Over the next few years, Williams took on roles on stage and on film, including the first film celluloid version of the Edgar Wallace mystery, The Frightened Lady. At age 30, he became an overnight star, however, with his thriller Night Must Fall (1935), in which he also played the lead role of a psychopathic murderer. The play was noted for its exploration of the killer's complex psychological state, a step forward for its genre. It was made into a film in 1937 with Robert Montgomery, and again in 1964 with Albert Finney. It has been frequently revived, most recently in the West End with Jason Donovan,[5] and on Broadway in 1999 with Matthew Broderick.[6][7]

His other highly successful play was very different: The Corn Is Green, written in 1938 at age 33), was partly based on his own childhood in Wales. He starred as a Welsh schoolboy in the play's London premiere. The play came to Broadway in 1940 with Ethel Barrymore as the schoolteacher Miss Moffat. A 1950 Broadway revival starred Eva La Gallienne. The play was turned into a very successful film starring Bette Davis, and again into a made-for-television film starring Katharine Hepburn, under the direction of Williams's close friend George Cukor. An attempt to turn the play into a musical in the 1970s, with Davis again in the role of the schoolteacher with lyrics by Williams, failed. So did a Broadway revival in 1983 starring Cicely Tyson and Peter Gallagher. But a 1985 London revival at the Old Vic with Deborah Kerr was successful, as was a 2007 production at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. That production starred Kate Burton. Williams was a close friend of Kate's parents, Richard Burton and Burton's first wife, Sybil. In the Williamstown production, the schoolboy – the role created by and modeled on Williams himself – was played by Kate Burton's son, Morgan Ritchie.[8] The Corn is Green was revived at the National Theatre in London in 2022 with Nicola Walker playing Miss Moffat.[9] Emlyn Williams included this story in his early autobiography George covering the years 1905-1927 and published in 1961.[10] A sequel, Emlyn, covering the years 1927–1935, was published in 1973.

Emlyn Williams's autobiographical light comedy, The Druid's Rest, was first performed at the St Martin's Theatre, London, in 1944. It saw the stage debut of Richard Burton whom Williams had spotted at an audition in Cardiff. The play has been revived at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in both 1976 and 2005, and received its first London revival in sixty years at London's Finborough Theatre in 2009.[11][12]

In addition to stage plays, Emlyn Williams wrote a number of film screenplays, working with Alfred Hitchcock (on The Man Who Knew Too Much), Carol Reed and other directors. He acted in and contributed dialogue to various films based on the novels of A. J. Cronin, including The Citadel (1938), The Stars Look Down (1939), Hatter's Castle (1942) and Web of Evidence (1959).[citation needed] He played the mad Roman emperor Caligula in an uncompleted 1937 film version of Robert Graves's novel I, Claudius (with Charles Laughton);[13] a kindly veterinarian who accidentally causes the death of a murderess (played by Bette Davis) in the 1952 suspense drama Another Man's Poison; and the fool Wamba in the 1952 Ivanhoe (with Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor).[citation needed]

Other screen credits include Hitchcock's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn (with Charles Laughton), Gabriel Pascal's film version of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara (with Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison), José Ferrer's I Accuse! (playing Émile Zola), The Wreck of the Mary Deare (with Gary Cooper), The L-Shaped Room (with Leslie Caron), and a made-for-TV adaptation of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield (with an all-star cast including Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson and Edith Evans). In 1941 Williams starred in the film You Will Remember, directed by Jack Raymond and written by Sewell Stokes and Lydia Hayward. The film is based on the life of the popular late Victorian songwriter Leslie Stuart, played here by Robert Morley, with Williams as Stuart's best friend. Also in 1941, he had a principal supporting part (as Snobby Price) in Gabriel Pascal's filming of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara.[citation needed]

Williams's only film as a director, The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949), which he also wrote and starred in, marked the screen debut of his fellow Welshman, Richard Burton. Williams often appeared in his own plays, and was famous for his one-man shows, with which he toured the world, playing Charles Dickens in an evening of excerpts from Dickens's novels. This "one man show" was the start of a whole new theatrical genre. He followed up his Dickens performance with one man shows based on the works of Dylan Thomas, Dylan Thomas Growing Up, and H. H. Munro better known under his pseudonym Saki. His post-war acting credits included The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan and The Deputy aka The Representative by Rolf Hochhuth on Broadway. He also was the "voice" of Lloyd George in the seminal BBC documentary The Great War (1964).[citation needed]

Among Williams's other books was the best seller Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection (1968), a semi-fictionalised account of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. His 1980 novel Headlong, the fictional story of the unexpected death of the entire British royal family in a freak accident in 1930, and the ascent of a most unlikely heir to the British throne as a result, was the loose basis of the 1991 motion picture King Ralph.[14]

On Monday 17 February 1975, Williams was Roy Plomley's guest on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4. The author's book choice was a dictionary with a typewriter, pen and paper combined as his luxury.[15]

Personal life edit

Williams was married in 1935 to actress Mary Marjorie O'Shann (Molly Shan), who died in 1970. They had two sons, Alan, a writer, and Brook, an actor. Brook became a close friend of Richard Burton's, working as Burton's personal assistant and appearing in many of Burton's films. Williams is godfather to Kate Burton.

Both during his marriage and following his wife's death, Williams was actively bisexual throughout his adult life.[16] He maintained a relationship from 1981 to 1986 with American theatre journalist Albert N. Williams whom Emlyn met while appearing at the Northlight Theatre in the Chicago area with his one-man Charles Dickens show. (Albert Williams served as Emlyn Williams's personal assistant during a 1982 tour of England, Wales and Ireland with the Charles Dickens and Dylan Thomas solo shows.)[citation needed]

Honours edit

Death edit

Emlyn Williams died on 25 September 1987 at his flat in Dovehouse Street, Chelsea, London, from complications from bowel cancer. He was 81 years old. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, London.[19]

Bibliography edit

Plays edit

Novels (inexhaustive list) edit

  • Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection (1968)
  • Headlong (1980)

Autobiography edit

  • George (1961)
  • Emlyn (1973)

Filmography edit

Screenwriter edit

Director edit

Actor edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Williams, (George) Emlyn (1905–1987), actor and playwright". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 23 September 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39950. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Krebs, Albin (26 September 1987). "Emlyn Williams, Welsh Actor and Writer, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  3. ^ Folkart, Burt A. (26 September 1987). "Welsh Dramatist and Actor Emlyn Williams Dies at 81". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  4. ^ Carpenter, Humphrey, O.U.D.S.: A Centenary History of the Oxford University Dramatic Society 1885–1985, Oxford University Press, 1985 (ISBN 0-19-212241-X)
  5. ^ "Night Must Fall". 28 October 1996.
  6. ^ "Night Must Fall". 9 March 1999.
  7. ^ "Night Must Fall". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  8. ^ Isherwood, Charles. "Rescuing a Student From a Life in the Mines", The New York Times, 7 August 2007.
  9. ^ "The Corn is Green". National Theatre - What's On. 11 February 2020.
  10. ^ "George: An Early Autobiography". Goodreads. Goodreads.
  11. ^ "Emlyn Williams' the Druid's Rest Revived at Finborough Theatre | TheaterMania".
  12. ^ "The Druid's Rest".[dead link]
  13. ^ Barker, Felix (18 December 1965). "The epic that never was". Liverpool Echo. No. 26755. p. 4. Retrieved 26 January 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  14. ^ Ward, David S. (15 February 1991), King Ralph, John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt, retrieved 13 November 2017
  15. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Emlyn Williams".
  16. ^ John Russell Stephens Emlyn Williams: the making of a dramatist - Page 147 - 2000 - In Emlyn, Williams presents himself as bisexual and in a loose sense he was probably right; but his sexual experience with women was at best limited to a few one-night stands, almost always in brothels, whereas all his committed.
  17. ^ "Wales Honours Princess and Duke".
  18. ^ "Obituary: Mr Emlyn Williams". The Times. No. 62884. London. 26 September 1987. p. 10.
  19. ^ Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 51034). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.
  20. ^ "He Was Born Gay (Queen's Theatre, 1937)". Theatricalia. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  21. ^ "Gielgud & Goodner in Williams' 'He was born gay'". Getty Images. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  22. ^ Bibliographic detail taken from a copy of George, Williams autobiography published by Random House New York in 1961

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Welsh speaking working class family at 1 Jones Terrace Pen y ffordd Ffynnongroyw Flintshire He was the eldest of the three surviving sons of Mary nee Williams a former maid servant and Richard Williams a greengrocer 1 He spoke only Welsh until the age of eight Later he said he would probably have begun working in the mines at age 12 if he had not caught the attention of Sarah Grace Cooke the model for Miss Moffat in The Corn Is Green She was a teacher of French at the grammar school in Holywell Flintshire in 1915 where Williams had gone on a scholarship Over the next seven years she encouraged him in his studies and helped pay for him to stay with a French friend of hers in Haute Savoie in France where he spent three months perfecting his French When he was 17 she helped him win a scholarship to Christ Church Oxford where he studied French and Italian 2 In 1926 during his studies at university Williams had a nervous breakdown which was blamed largely on a failed emotional friendship with another undergraduate As a means of recovery Miss Cooke encouraged him to write 3 However Williams intended to enter the theatrical world too and joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society OUDS 4 Professional career editAged 22 Williams performed with OUDS in his first full length play Full Moon at the original Oxford Playhouse in 1927 Later that year he joined a London based repertory company and began his stage career By age 25 1930 he had expanded his writing with works such as A Murder Has Been Arranged and The Late Christopher Bean The same year he appeared in Edgar Wallace s hit thriller On the Spot in the West End Over the next few years Williams took on roles on stage and on film including the first film celluloid version of the Edgar Wallace mystery The Frightened Lady At age 30 he became an overnight star however with his thriller Night Must Fall 1935 in which he also played the lead role of a psychopathic murderer The play was noted for its exploration of the killer s complex psychological state a step forward for its genre It was made into a film in 1937 with Robert Montgomery and again in 1964 with Albert Finney It has been frequently revived most recently in the West End with Jason Donovan 5 and on Broadway in 1999 with Matthew Broderick 6 7 His other highly successful play was very different The Corn Is Green written in 1938 at age 33 was partly based on his own childhood in Wales He starred as a Welsh schoolboy in the play s London premiere The play came to Broadway in 1940 with Ethel Barrymore as the schoolteacher Miss Moffat A 1950 Broadway revival starred Eva La Gallienne The play was turned into a very successful film starring Bette Davis and again into a made for television film starring Katharine Hepburn under the direction of Williams s close friend George Cukor An attempt to turn the play into a musical in the 1970s with Davis again in the role of the schoolteacher with lyrics by Williams failed So did a Broadway revival in 1983 starring Cicely Tyson and Peter Gallagher But a 1985 London revival at the Old Vic with Deborah Kerr was successful as was a 2007 production at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts That production starred Kate Burton Williams was a close friend of Kate s parents Richard Burton and Burton s first wife Sybil In the Williamstown production the schoolboy the role created by and modeled on Williams himself was played by Kate Burton s son Morgan Ritchie 8 The Corn is Green was revived at the National Theatre in London in 2022 with Nicola Walker playing Miss Moffat 9 Emlyn Williams included this story in his early autobiography George covering the years 1905 1927 and published in 1961 10 A sequel Emlyn covering the years 1927 1935 was published in 1973 Emlyn Williams s autobiographical light comedy The Druid s Rest was first performed at the St Martin s Theatre London in 1944 It saw the stage debut of Richard Burton whom Williams had spotted at an audition in Cardiff The play has been revived at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in both 1976 and 2005 and received its first London revival in sixty years at London s Finborough Theatre in 2009 11 12 In addition to stage plays Emlyn Williams wrote a number of film screenplays working with Alfred Hitchcock on The Man Who Knew Too Much Carol Reed and other directors He acted in and contributed dialogue to various films based on the novels of A J Cronin including The Citadel 1938 The Stars Look Down 1939 Hatter s Castle 1942 and Web of Evidence 1959 citation needed He played the mad Roman emperor Caligula in an uncompleted 1937 film version of Robert Graves s novel I Claudius with Charles Laughton 13 a kindly veterinarian who accidentally causes the death of a murderess played by Bette Davis in the 1952 suspense drama Another Man s Poison and the fool Wamba in the 1952 Ivanhoe with Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor citation needed Other screen credits include Hitchcock s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier s Jamaica Inn with Charles Laughton Gabriel Pascal s film version of George Bernard Shaw s Major Barbara with Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison Jose Ferrer s I Accuse playing Emile Zola The Wreck of the Mary Deare with Gary Cooper The L Shaped Room with Leslie Caron and a made for TV adaptation of Charles Dickens s David Copperfield with an all star cast including Laurence Olivier Michael Redgrave Ralph Richardson and Edith Evans In 1941 Williams starred in the film You Will Remember directed by Jack Raymond and written by Sewell Stokes and Lydia Hayward The film is based on the life of the popular late Victorian songwriter Leslie Stuart played here by Robert Morley with Williams as Stuart s best friend Also in 1941 he had a principal supporting part as Snobby Price in Gabriel Pascal s filming of George Bernard Shaw s Major Barbara citation needed Williams s only film as a director The Last Days of Dolwyn 1949 which he also wrote and starred in marked the screen debut of his fellow Welshman Richard Burton Williams often appeared in his own plays and was famous for his one man shows with which he toured the world playing Charles Dickens in an evening of excerpts from Dickens s novels This one man show was the start of a whole new theatrical genre He followed up his Dickens performance with one man shows based on the works of Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas Growing Up and H H Munro better known under his pseudonym Saki His post war acting credits included The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan and The Deputy aka The Representative by Rolf Hochhuth on Broadway He also was the voice of Lloyd George in the seminal BBC documentary The Great War 1964 citation needed Among Williams s other books was the best seller Beyond Belief A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection 1968 a semi fictionalised account of the Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley His 1980 novel Headlong the fictional story of the unexpected death of the entire British royal family in a freak accident in 1930 and the ascent of a most unlikely heir to the British throne as a result was the loose basis of the 1991 motion picture King Ralph 14 On Monday 17 February 1975 Williams was Roy Plomley s guest on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 The author s book choice was a dictionary with a typewriter pen and paper combined as his luxury 15 Personal life editWilliams was married in 1935 to actress Mary Marjorie O Shann Molly Shan who died in 1970 They had two sons Alan a writer and Brook an actor Brook became a close friend of Richard Burton s working as Burton s personal assistant and appearing in many of Burton s films Williams is godfather to Kate Burton Both during his marriage and following his wife s death Williams was actively bisexual throughout his adult life 16 He maintained a relationship from 1981 to 1986 with American theatre journalist Albert N Williams whom Emlyn met while appearing at the Northlight Theatre in the Chicago area with his one man Charles Dickens show Albert Williams served as Emlyn Williams s personal assistant during a 1982 tour of England Wales and Ireland with the Charles Dickens and Dylan Thomas solo shows citation needed Honours editEmlyn Williams was awarded an Honorary degree by the University of Wales in 1949 17 Emlyn Williams was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE in 1962 18 Death editEmlyn Williams died on 25 September 1987 at his flat in Dovehouse Street Chelsea London from complications from bowel cancer He was 81 years old He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium London 19 Bibliography editPlays edit Full Moon A Murder Has Been Arranged Spring 1600 Night Must Fall He was Born Gay 1937 20 21 a play about the Dauphin son of Louis XVI The Corn Is Green The Light of Heart The Morning Star A Month in the Country Adapted from the play by Turgenev The Druid s Rest The Wind of Heaven Trespass Accolade Someone Waiting Beth 22 later revised under the title CuckooNovels inexhaustive list edit Beyond Belief A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection 1968 Headlong 1980 Autobiography edit George 1961 Emlyn 1973 Filmography editNight Must Fall directed by Richard Thorpe 1937 based on the play Night Must Fall Life Begins at Eight Thirty directed by Irving Pichel 1942 based on the play The Light of Heart The Corn Is Green directed by Irving Rapper 1945 based on the play The Corn Is Green Time Without Pity directed by Joseph Losey UK 1957 based on the play Someone Waiting Life Begins at Eight directed by Michael Kehlmann West Germany 1962 based on the play The Light of Heart Night Must Fall directed by Karel Reisz UK 1964 based on the play Night Must Fall The Corn Is Green directed by George Cukor TV film 1979 based on the play The Corn Is Green King Ralph directed by David S Ward 1991 based on the novel Headlong Screenwriter edit Friday the Thirteenth 1933 Evergreen 1934 The Divine Spark 1935 Broken Blossoms 1936 The Last Days of Dolwyn 1949 Director edit The Last Days of Dolwyn 1949 Actor edit The Frightened Lady 1932 as Lord Lebanon film debut Men of Tomorrow 1932 as Horners Sally Bishop 1932 as Arthur Montague Friday the Thirteenth 1933 as William Blake My Song for You 1934 as Theodore Bruckner Evensong 1934 as George Leary Road House 1934 as Chester The Iron Duke 1934 as Bates The Dictator 1935 as King Christian VII of Denmark City of Beautiful Nonsense 1935 as Jack Grey Broken Blossoms 1936 as Chen I Claudius 1937 as Caligula the film was never completed but footage is preserved Dead Men Tell No Tales 1938 as Dr Headlam Night Alone 1938 as Charles Seaton The Citadel 1938 as Owen They Drive by Night 1938 as Shorty Matthews Jamaica Inn 1939 as Harry the Peddler Sir Humphrey s Gang The Stars Look Down 1940 as Joe Gowlan The Girl in the News 1940 as Tracy You Will Remember 1941 as Bob Slater Major Barbara 1941 as Snobby Price This England 1941 as Appleyard Hatter s Castle 1942 as Dennis The Last Days of Dolwyn 1949 as Rob Three Husbands 1951 as Maxwell Bard The Scarf 1951 as Dr David Dunbar Another Man s Poison 1951 as Dr Henderson The Magic Box 1951 as Bank Manager Ivanhoe 1952 as Wamba Narrator The Deep Blue Sea 1955 as Sir William Collyer I Accuse 1958 as Emile Zola Beyond This Place 1959 as Enoch Oswald The Wreck of the Mary Deare 1959 as Sir Wilfred Falcett The L Shaped Room 1962 as Dr Weaver The Epic That Never Was 1965 TV as Himself Eye of the Devil 1966 as Alain de Montfaucon David Copperfield 1969 TV Movie as Mr Dick The Walking Stick 1970 as Jack Foil The Deadly Game 1982 TV Movie as Bernard Laroque Past Caring 1985 TV Movie as Edward final film References edit Williams George Emlyn 1905 1987 actor and playwright Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Vol 1 online ed Oxford University Press 23 September 2004 doi 10 1093 ref odnb 39950 Subscription or UK public library membership required Krebs Albin 26 September 1987 Emlyn Williams Welsh Actor and Writer Dies The New York Times Retrieved 18 October 2016 Folkart Burt A 26 September 1987 Welsh Dramatist and Actor Emlyn Williams Dies at 81 Los Angeles Times Retrieved 18 October 2016 Carpenter Humphrey O U D S A Centenary History of the Oxford University Dramatic Society 1885 1985 Oxford University Press 1985 ISBN 0 19 212241 X Night Must Fall 28 October 1996 Night Must Fall 9 March 1999 Night Must Fall Internet Broadway Database Retrieved 1 August 2015 Isherwood Charles Rescuing a Student From a Life in the Mines The New York Times 7 August 2007 The Corn is Green National Theatre What s On 11 February 2020 George An Early Autobiography Goodreads Goodreads Emlyn Williams the Druid s Rest Revived at Finborough Theatre TheaterMania The Druid s Rest dead link Barker Felix 18 December 1965 The epic that never was Liverpool Echo No 26755 p 4 Retrieved 26 January 2019 via British Newspaper Archive Ward David S 15 February 1991 King Ralph John Goodman Peter O Toole John Hurt retrieved 13 November 2017 BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs Emlyn Williams John Russell Stephens Emlyn Williams the making of a dramatist Page 147 2000 In Emlyn Williams presents himself as bisexual and in a loose sense he was probably right but his sexual experience with women was at best limited to a few one night stands almost always in brothels whereas all his committed Wales Honours Princess and Duke Obituary Mr Emlyn Williams The Times No 62884 London 26 September 1987 p 10 Wilson Scott Resting Places The Burial Sites of More Than 14 000 Famous Persons 3d ed 2 Kindle Location 51034 McFarland amp Company Inc Publishers Kindle Edition He Was Born Gay Queen s Theatre 1937 Theatricalia Retrieved 5 March 2019 Gielgud amp Goodner in Williams He was born gay Getty Images Retrieved 5 March 2019 Bibliographic detail taken from a copy of George Williams autobiography published by Random House New York in 1961External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Emlyn Williams nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Emlyn Williams Works by Emlyn Williams at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Emlyn Williams at Internet Archive Emlyn Williams at IMDb The collection of Emlyn Williams Correspondence is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum Theatre and Performance Department Emlyn Williams papers 1941 1986 held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Emlyn Williams amp oldid 1205942150, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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