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| runtime = 75 mins<ref>{{cite news|title=TV Guide|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=17 December 1962|page=15|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121551931/?terms=%22angels%22}}</ref>
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'''''My Three Angels''''' is a 1962 Australian television adaptation which marked the acting debut of champion swimmer [[Murray Rose]].<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/good-sports-australian-athletes-act/|title=Good Sports: Australian Athletes Who Act|date=July 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=A new style|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121539475/?terms=%22three%2Bangels%22|date=6 December 1962|page=6}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=6 December 1962|newspaper=The Age|title=Murray Rose, from swimmer to actor|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/122405586/?terms=%22three%2Bangels%22|page=28}}</ref>
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'''''My Three Angels''''' is a 1962 Australian TV adaptation. It was based on the play ''[[My Three Angels]]'' by [[Samuel and Bella Spewack]] which in turn was based on the French play ''La Cuisine Des Anges'' by [[Albert Husson]].

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It was based on the play ''[[My Three Angels (play)|My Three Angels]]'' by [[Samuel and Bella Spewack]] which in turn was based on the French play ''La Cuisine Des Anges'' by [[Albert Husson]].

==Plot==
==Plot==
On Christmas Eve in [[French Guyana]], Felix and Emillie Ducotel struggle to maintain a small shop and the arrival of Felix's unpleasant cousin, Henri (Owen Weingott). They have a daughter, Marie-Louise (Anna Volksa).
On Christmas Eve in [[French Guiana]], Felix and Emillie Ducotel struggle to maintain a small shop and the arrival of Felix's unpleasant cousin, Henri ([[Owen Weingott]]). They have a daughter, Marie-Louise (Anna Volksa).

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Three convicts ([[Gordon Chater]], Richard Davies, [[Murray Rose]]), decide that, as a Christmas gift to the family, they will set everyone's problems to rights.


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Three convicts (Gordon Chater, Richard Davies, Murray Rose), decide that, as a Christmas gift to the family, they will set everyone's problems to rights.
==Cast==
==Cast==
*[[Gordon Chater]]
*[[Gordon Chater]] as convict
*[[Murray Rose]]
*[[Murray Rose]] as convict
*[[Richard Davies (Australian actor)|Richard Davies]] as convict
*Richard Davise
*Laurie Lange as Felix
*Laurie Lange as Felix
*Nancye Stewart as Emilie
*Nancye Stewart as Emilie
*Owen Weingott as Henri
*[[Owen Weingott]] as Henri
*[[Anna Volska]] as Marie-Louise
*[[Anna Volska]] as Marie-Louise
*Olive Walter
*Olive Walter
*Scott Tyler
*Bowen Llewellyn

==Production==
==Production==
The show marked the acting debut of swimmer [[Murray Rose]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136934566 |title=Murray Rose In Acting Debut |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=37, |issue=10,412 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=19 December 1962 |accessdate=11 June 2016 |page=25 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
The show marked the acting debut of swimmer [[Murray Rose]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136934566 |title=Murray Rose In Acting Debut |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=37 |issue=10,412 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=19 December 1962 |accessdate=11 June 2016 |page=25 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{Citation
| title=The bulletin
| date=1880
| publisher=John Haynes and J.F. Archibald
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-673247117
| accessdate=22 March 2019
}}</ref> Rose had become interested in acting after appearing in a play at college in the US. When back in Australia, a friend told Alan Burke of Rose's interest, and Burke called the swimmer to offer him a role.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Murray|last=Rose|magazine=TV Times|date=9 October 1963|page=17|title=It's What I Want}}</ref> "He read very well," said Burke. "I was very pleased with him. His looks are ideal for the part. He was the only one of the actors I considered who could get across the gallic charm I was looking for."<ref name="times">{{cite magazine|magazine=TV Times|page=6|date=22 November 1962|title=A plunge into TV drama}}</ref>

Rose said the emphasis was different from the film version.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Bulletin|title=A DEGREE OF COMMUNICATION Murray Rose and Tony Madigan: after the games ore over |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-689121431|date=29 December 1962|page=14|first=Jan|last=Smith}}</ref>

It was also the TV debut of Anna Volska, who was then 18.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=December 10, 1962|page=16|title=Murray Rose's New Role|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121545502/?terms=%22three%2Bangels%22}}</ref> It was the first Australian TV play from Gordon Chater.<ref>{{cite news|title=Murray Rose's Acting Debut will be Watched|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/122417830/?terms=%22my%20three%20angels%22&match=1|date=27 December 1963|page=17|newspaper=The Age}}</ref>

Chater had met Volska in a production of ''The Cherry Orchard'' at the Old Tote and said with her "I met my match in the giggling stakes... We both tended to be uncontrollable and diagraced ourselves later in a TV studio where something sparked us off, enraging the director which made us both worse. Well, it's better to have been sacked than never to have laughed at all. We were reinstated."<ref>{{cite book|first=Gordon|last=Chater|page=117|publisher=Bantam|year=1996|title=The Almost Late Gordon Chater}}</ref> It is likely this production was ''My Three Angels''.

==Reception==
==Reception==
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The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' called it "moderately successful" because it did not manage to treat the material "so whimsically and delicately that its rather dubious morality remains in the realm of fantasy." However he did think that "on its own rather obvious terms it [the production] was efficient enough." The critic added that Murray Rose was "amiable and decorative and obviously did everything the producer had told him to do; but it would be overcharitable to suggest that he did it with any conviction or distinction."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121553370/?terms=%22three%2Bangels%22|title=Adaptation of Stage Comedy|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=December 20, 1962|page=6|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' called it:

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<blockquote>Moderately successful... One of the essentials in any performance of this play is that it should be treated so whimsically and delicately that its rather dubious morality remains in the realm of fantasy; and this is even more essential in the close confrontation of a television production. Alan Burke's direction of the play did not really have this quality, but on its own rather obvious terms it was efficient enough. Gordon Chater... was too prone. to underline the malice in what he was saying by baring his teeth in a tigerish smile, but, as usual, he was -entertaining in his own right. Murray Rose... was amiable and decorative and obviously did everything the producer had told him to do; but it would be overcharitable to suggest that he did it with any conviction or distinction...<ref>"Adaptation of Stage Comedy", ''Sydney Morning Herald'', December 20, 1962</ref></blockquote>
The ''Sun Herald'' said Rose's performance was "neat, workmanlike and competent" adding that Gordon Chater "was superb."<ref>{{cite news|title=TV Merry Go Round|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=December 23, 1962|page=38|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121555277/?terms=%22murray%20rose%22&match=1|first=Valda|last=Marshall|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

''The Age'' called it "a mediocrity".<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|date=January 10, 1963|page=10|title=Teletopics|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jG9VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=t5UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3742%2C1127782}}</ref>

==See also==
==See also==
*[[List of television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1960s)]]
*[[List of television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1960s)]]
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/7250136 ''My Three Angels''] at [[AustLit]]
*[http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/7250136 ''My Three Angels''] at [[AustLit]]
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1786603/ ''My Three Angels''] at [[IMDB]]
*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1786603/ ''My Three Angels''] at [[IMDb]]
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My Three Angels
Genrecomedy
Based onplay My Three Angels by Samuel and Bella Spewack
based on play by Albert Husson
Written byNoel Robinson
Directed byAlan Burke
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time75 mins[1]
Production companyABC
Original release
NetworkABC
Release19 December 1962 (1962-12-19) (Sydney)
Release2 January 1963 (1963-01-02) (Melbourne)[2]

My Three Angels is a 1962 Australian television adaptation which marked the acting debut of champion swimmer Murray Rose.[3][4][5]

It was based on the play My Three Angels by Samuel and Bella Spewack which in turn was based on the French play La Cuisine Des Anges by Albert Husson.

Plot

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On Christmas Eve in French Guiana, Felix and Emillie Ducotel struggle to maintain a small shop and the arrival of Felix's unpleasant cousin, Henri (Owen Weingott). They have a daughter, Marie-Louise (Anna Volksa).

Three convicts (Gordon Chater, Richard Davies, Murray Rose), decide that, as a Christmas gift to the family, they will set everyone's problems to rights.

Cast

[edit]

Production

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The show marked the acting debut of swimmer Murray Rose.[6][7] Rose had become interested in acting after appearing in a play at college in the US. When back in Australia, a friend told Alan Burke of Rose's interest, and Burke called the swimmer to offer him a role.[8] "He read very well," said Burke. "I was very pleased with him. His looks are ideal for the part. He was the only one of the actors I considered who could get across the gallic charm I was looking for."[9]

Rose said the emphasis was different from the film version.[10]

It was also the TV debut of Anna Volska, who was then 18.[11] It was the first Australian TV play from Gordon Chater.[12]

Chater had met Volska in a production of The Cherry Orchard at the Old Tote and said with her "I met my match in the giggling stakes... We both tended to be uncontrollable and diagraced ourselves later in a TV studio where something sparked us off, enraging the director which made us both worse. Well, it's better to have been sacked than never to have laughed at all. We were reinstated."[13] It is likely this production was My Three Angels.

Reception

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The Sydney Morning Herald called it "moderately successful" because it did not manage to treat the material "so whimsically and delicately that its rather dubious morality remains in the realm of fantasy." However he did think that "on its own rather obvious terms it [the production] was efficient enough." The critic added that Murray Rose was "amiable and decorative and obviously did everything the producer had told him to do; but it would be overcharitable to suggest that he did it with any conviction or distinction."[14]

The Sun Herald said Rose's performance was "neat, workmanlike and competent" adding that Gordon Chater "was superb."[15]

The Age called it "a mediocrity".[16]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 17 December 1962. p. 15.
  2. ^ "TV Guide". The Age. 27 December 1962. p. 25.
  3. ^ Vagg, Stephen (12 July 2019). "Good Sports: Australian Athletes Who Act". Filmink.
  4. ^ "A new style". Sydney Morning Herald. 6 December 1962. p. 6.
  5. ^ "Murray Rose, from swimmer to actor". The Age. 6 December 1962. p. 28.
  6. ^ "Murray Rose In Acting Debut". The Canberra Times. Vol. 37, no. 10, 412. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 19 December 1962. p. 25. Retrieved 11 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ The bulletin, John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880, retrieved 22 March 2019
  8. ^ Rose, Murray (9 October 1963). "It's What I Want". TV Times. p. 17.
  9. ^ "A plunge into TV drama". TV Times. 22 November 1962. p. 6.
  10. ^ Smith, Jan (29 December 1962). "A DEGREE OF COMMUNICATION Murray Rose and Tony Madigan: after the games ore over". The Bulletin. p. 14.
  11. ^ "Murray Rose's New Role". Sydney Morning Herald. 10 December 1962. p. 16.
  12. ^ "Murray Rose's Acting Debut will be Watched". The Age. 27 December 1963. p. 17.
  13. ^ Chater, Gordon (1996). The Almost Late Gordon Chater. Bantam. p. 117.
  14. ^ "Adaptation of Stage Comedy". Sydney Morning Herald. 20 December 1962. p. 6.
  15. ^ Marshall, Valda (23 December 1962). "TV Merry Go Round". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 38.
  16. ^ "Teletopics". The Age. 10 January 1963. p. 10.
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