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Ronald Jeans (10 May 1887 – 16 May 1973) was a British playwright with a career spanning nearly 50 years. Early life. Ronald Jeans was born in Oxton, Merseyside, the younger son of Sir Alexander Grigor Jeans (1849–1924), the founder and managing editor of the Liverpool Post and Mercury, and his wife, Ellen Gallon (d. 1889). [1] Career.
Young Wives' Tale is a 1949 comedy play by the British writer Ronald Jeans. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Brighton before transferring to the Savoy Theatre in London's West End where it ran for 373 performances between 7 July 1949 and 27 May 1950.
Lean Harvest is a 1931 play by the British writer Ronald Jeans. It portrays a married couple in the years after the First World War, with the New Statesman review concluding that the moral of the play was "too much money and too little money are equally dangerous to married happiness".
Among his many achievements and accolades, Jeans is perhaps best remembered for his early pioneering of 'the revue' with plays such as Hullo, Repertory! (1915), Buzz Buzz (1918) and Cochran's Revue (1926).
Dec 30, 2014 · The first well-known star Horst photographed was the English performer Gertrude Lawrence, then appearing in Ronald Jeans’ play Can the Leopard…? at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Horst’s first portrait of a Hollywood actress, Bette Davis, appeared in Vogue‘s sister magazine Vanity Fair in 1932.
May 18, 1973 · LONDON, May 17 (AP) —Ronald Jeans, a writer of comedy for the British stage for more than half a century, died yesterday at the age of 86.
Ronald Jeans was born on 10 March 1887 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Young Wives' Tale (1951), Your Money or Your Wife (1960) and Five Ways to Paradise (1946). He was married to Marjorie Evelyn Wise.
