Joan Temple (c.1887 – 6 May 1965) was a British actress and playwright, best known for her play No Room at the Inn which was made into a film of the same name.
[1][2] Following her training at RADA she continued to work with the Ex-Students' Club and her play The Plunge, a dramatisation of the novel by St John Lucas, was performed by the club and nominated as one of the Plays of the Year in The Stage.
[3] Her play The Widow's Cruise used the war to examine women's traditional domestic roles and relationships to the family; this was a common theme for women playwrights in the 1920s and 1930s.
[6] Her best known play was No Room at the Inn about evacuee children during World War II.
[7] In the late 1940s she called for a revival of playwriting, and the fostering of new talent by enabling new playwrights to have their work performed instead of theatres performing revivals of older works.