The Importance of Being Earnest
Comedy
They don't come any wilder than Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners, morals and morality!
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
1952-06-02
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Cast
Director
Anthony Asquith
Michael Redgrave as Ernest Worthing
Michael Denison as Algernon Moncrieff
Edith Evans as Lady Bracknell
Joan Greenwood as Gwendolen Fairfax
Dorothy Tutin as Cecily Cardew
Margaret Rutherford as Miss Prism
Miles Malleson as Canon Chasuble
Richard Wattis as Seton
Walter Hudd as Lane
Aubrey Mather as Merriman
Ivor Barnard as Conductor (Uncredited)