The Importance of Being Earnest

Synopsis

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.

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When & where

Streaming on

• YouTube TV↗
• Criterion Channel↗

Top of the call sheet

• 
  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

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