Mrs. Crawford provides dates and facts and is quite credible, while Sir Charles offers avowals of complete innocence, not just publicly but solemnly sworn to in private to his fiancee.
[3] And in fact Mrs. Crawford is lying, and instead is madly in love and carrying on with a certain Captain Foster, which may have been a reason for inventing her charges against the unfortunate Sir Charles.
[4] Players included Anthony Quayle, Jack Gwillim, Corin Redgrave, Anna Massey, and Terence Bayler, and Glen Byam Shaw directed.
[7] Otis Guernsey Jr. wrote that it was "a good job expertly done, but perhaps just a bit creaky in its theatrical joints as it played out its mannered exposé".
[8] The Right Honourable Gentleman was only a modest hit on Broadway, and the 1966 New York City transit strike toward the end of its run harmed business.