Almost a Honeymoon is a 1930 play by Walter Ellis. It debuted at the Garrick Theatre in London and later enjoyed a successful run at the Apollo Theatre. A farce it concerns a young man who has secured a lucrative post in the colonial service. His problem is that the post requires him to be married, and he has just a day to find a woman to be his wife.
Original cast
Charles - Hylton Allen/George Relph
Bailiff - Christopher Steele
Basil Dibley - Gerald Pring
Cuthbert de Grey - Lamont Dickinson
Mr. Dixon - Edward Thane
Taxi Driver - Barry Lyndon
Margaret Brent - Grace Lane
Rosalie Quilter - Renee Kelly/Mercia Swinburne
Adaptations
The play was twice adapted for film. In 1930 Almost a Honeymoon directed by Monty Banks and starring Clifford Mollison and Dodo Watts and in 1938 Almost a Honeymoon directed by Norman Lee and starring Tommy Trinder and Linden Travers.
References
Bibliography
Smith, Leslie. Modern British Farce. Barnes and Noble, 1989.