My Three Angels

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My Three Angels [1] is a comedy play by Samuel and Bella Spewack [2]. A delightful and entertaining comedy set on an island in French Guiana, it tells how three convicts, brought out to repair a roof, become the good angels of a badly harassed household. First produced in English on Broadway in 1953.

The original text

Based on a popular French play by Albert Husson called La Cuisine des Anges (“Cooking with Angels”).

Translations and adaptations

it was made into a very successful 1955 movie called We’re no Angels [3], starring Joan Bennett, Humphrey Bogart, Basil Rathbone, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov.

Translated into Afrikaans as Drie Engeltjies op Duiwelseiland by Mariechen Naude.

Performance history in South Africa

Produced in South Africa by the Johannesburg Reps, directed by Anthony Farmer, and starring John Boulter in 1955. Translated into Afrikaans as Drie Engeltjies op Duiwelseiland by ** and first produced by ** [???]


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