Scarlet Rhapsody

Scarlet Rhapsody is a 1947 Australian radio serial by Sumner Locke Elliott for the George Edwards Players.^[1]^[2]

The serial was one of the most successful from Edwards.^[3]

It was produced again in 1949.^[4]

Premise

"The story of a girl born to become a musical genius but whose life was shadowed by tragedy."^[5]

Cast

George Edwards
Nell Stirling
Joan Lord
Ron Roberts
Jean Robertson
Hilda Scurr
William Rees
Deryck Barnes
Queenie Ashton
Moray Powell

References

^ "Advertising", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 19 July 1947, nla.obj-1425136519, retrieved 20 February 2024 – via Trove
^ "New 5 AD Evening Feature". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 2 July 1947. p. 6. Retrieved 20 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "THE MAN WITH 1000 VOICES", The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 22 July 1980, retrieved 20 February 2024 – via Trove
^ "STATION 7DY". North-eastern Advertiser. Vol. XL, no. 38. Tasmania, Australia. 20 May 1949. p. 3. Retrieved 20 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "NEW SOUTH WALES COMMERCIAL PROGRAMMES", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 28 June 1947, nla.obj-1379235173, retrieved 20 February 2024 – via Trove

v t e Works of Sumner Locke Elliott
Novels	Careful, He Might Hear You (1963) Some Doves and Pythons (1966) Edens Lost (1969) The Man Who Got Away (1972) Going (1975) Water Under the Bridge (1977) Signs of Life (1981) About Tilly Beamis (1984) Waiting for Childhood (1987) Fairyland (1990) Radio Days (1993)
Plays	The Cow Jumped Over the Moon (1937) Interval (1939) The Little Sheep Run Fast (1940) Goodbye to the Music (1942) Your Obedient Servant (1943) The Invisible Circus (1946) Wicked Is the Vine (1948) Rusty Bugles (1948) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1951) John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953)
TV scripts	Wicked Is the Vine (1949) The Crater (1949) Pengallen's Bell (1949) Of Human Bondage (1949) Jane Eyre (1949) The Willow Cabin (1950) The Passionate Pilgrim (1950) The Shadow of a Man (1950) Little Women (1950) The Rose Garden (1951) The Devil in Velvet (1952) The Thin Air (1952) Dusty Portrait (1952) Miss Hargreaves (1952) We Were Children (1952) Elegy (1953) Wish on the Moon (1953) Before I Wake (1953) The Shadow of a Man (1953) The Girl with the Stop Watch (1953) Moment of Panic (1954) Friday the 13th (1954) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1954) The King and Mrs. Candle (1954) Time Bomb (1954) Run Girl Run (1954) The Women (1955) Beloved Stranger (1955) The King and Mrs. Candle (1955) Peter Pan (1955) Daisy, Daisy (1955) You and Me and the Gatepost (1956) Keyhole (1956) Company Manners (1956) Peter Pan (1956) Love at Fourth Sight (1957) Whereabouts Unknown (1957) Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper (1957) Babe in the Woods (1957) The Count of Monte Cristo (1958) The Winslow Boy (1958) We Haven't Seen Her Lately (1958) The Laughing Willow (1958) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1959) (US) Peter Pan (1960) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960) (Aust) The Prisoner of Zenda (1961) Notorious (1961) Spellbound (1962)
Adaptations	Rusty Bugles (1965) Water Under the Bridge (1980) Rusty Bugles (1981) Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) Edens Lost (1989 TV mini series)
Radio	Crazy Family (1939) Tradesman's Entrance (1941) Jezebel's Daughter (1941) Grand City (1942) Girl of the Ballet (1942) The Man in the Dark (1944) The Army Hour (1944) Lily Parker (1947) Scarlet Rhapsody (1947) Wicked Is the Vine (1947) Ride a Cock Horse (1948) The Crater (1948) The Rose Garden (1950) Dusty Portrait (1953) The Thin Air (1954) We Were Children (1954) Friday the 13th (1955)