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Algernon Moncrieff's flat in Half Moon Street. Jack (George Alexander) tells Gwendolen (Irene Vanbrugh) the address of his country house, while Algernon (Allan Aynesworth) secretly overhears. Algernon Moncrieff, a young man about town, is visited by a friend whom he knows by the name of Ernest Worthing. The latter has come from the country to ...
Algernon Moncrieff's flat in London. Algernon is playing his own variations on Auld Lang Syne on the piano while his butler prepares afternoon tea. John "Jack" Worthing, whom Algernon knows as Ernest, arrives. 'Ernest' has come from the country to propose to Algernon's cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax.
[9] The role of Algernon brought him to wider public notice than before, [2] and his notices were excellent: "Mr Aynesworth hits off to perfection the bland effrontery of Moncrieff"; [10] "[he] catches the right vein of grave extravagance"; [2] "exactly catches the tone of well-bred insolence which harmonises best with the author's wit". [11]
The Importance of Being Earnest is a 2002 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Oliver Parker, based on Oscar Wilde's classic 1895 comedy of manners of the same name.A British-American co-production, the film stars Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, and Judi Dench in lead roles, with Tom Wilkinson, Anna Massey, and Edward Fox in supporting roles.
His friend, Algernon Moncrieff, is of moderate means and has also created an imaginary character, Bunbury. Algernon's cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax, has caught the eye of Jack. Jack's ward in the country, Cecily Cardew, has caught the eye of Algernon. Lady Bracknell rules the roost with her heavy-handed social mores. The story begins in London.
Algernon Moncrieff, a character in the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest Algernon "Algy" Timberlane and his wife Martha, main characters of the novel Greybeard by Brian Aldiss Algernon, a rogue who visits WindClan every summer with his band, a character in Erin Hunter 's novel Tallstar's Revenge
Robert Hope Moncrieff, author; Chris Moncrieff (1931–2019), British journalist; Gladys Moncrieff (1892–1976), Australian singer; John J. Moncrieff (1866–1939), Canadian newspaper editor and conductor; Lieutenant John Robert Moncrieff (1899–1928), a New Zealand aviator: Moncrieff and Hood disappearance attempt to cross Tasman strait
The two-act musical is an expanded version of the hour-long musical Who's Earnest? televised on The United States Steel Hour in 1957. [1]The 1959-1960 Off-Broadway season included a dozen musicals and revues including Little Mary Sunshine, The Fantasticks (based on an obscure 1894 work by Edmond Rostand, of Cyrano fame), and Ernest in Love, a musicalization of Oscar Wilde's 1895 hit.