The Importance of Being Earnest

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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  Michael Redgrave

  Ernest Worthing
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  Michael Denison

  Algernon Moncrieff
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  Edith Evans

  Lady Bracknell
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  Joan Greenwood

  Gwendolen Fairfax
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  Dorothy Tutin

  Cecily Cardew
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  Margaret Rutherford

  Miss Prism
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  Miles Malleson

  Canon Chasuble
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  Richard Wattis

  Seton
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  Walter Hudd

  Lane
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  Aubrey Mather

  Merriman