Almost a Honeymoon (play)

Almost a Honeymoon is a 1930 play by Walter Ellis. It debuted at the Garrick Theatre in London and later enjoyed a successful run at the Apollo Theatre. A farce it concerns a young man who has secured a lucrative post in the colonial service. His problem is that the post requires him to be married, and he has just a day to find a woman to be his wife.

Original cast

 * Charles – Hylton Allen/George Relph
 * Bailiff – Christopher Steele
 * Basil Dibley – Gerald Pring
 * Cuthbert de Grey – Lamont Dickinson
 * Mr. Dixon – Edward Thane
 * Taxi Driver – Barry Lyndon
 * Margaret Brent – Grace Lane
 * Rosalie Quilter – Renee Kelly/Mercia Swinburne

Adaptations
The play was twice adapted for film. In 1930 Almost a Honeymoon directed by Monty Banks and starring Clifford Mollison and Dodo Watts and in 1938 Almost a Honeymoon directed by Norman Lee and starring Tommy Trinder and Linden Travers.