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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) Facts
| Director(s) | Sidney Gilliat |
| Producer(s) | Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat, Leslie Gilliat |
| Featured Cast | Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Peter Finch, Wilfrid Hyde-White |
| Total Facts | 2 |
Coincidentally, a poster outside D'Oyle Carte's office shows a caricature of Oscar Wilde, an actor plays Oscar Wilde briefly in another scene, and two of the male leads, Robert Morley and Peter Finch, would go on to play Oscar Wilde themselves in later movies.
This film contains extracts from the following Gilbert & Sullivan's classics: - Trial by Jury (1875) - H.M.S. Pinafore (1878) - Pirates of Penzance (1879) - Iolanthe (1882) - The Mikado (1885) - Ruddigore (1887) - The Yeomen of the Guard (1888) - The Gondoliers (1889)