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Benn Wolfe Levy (7 March 1900 – 7 December 1973) was a Labour Party Member of Parliament in the House of Commons (1945–1950), and a successful playwright. He was educated at Repton School and University College, Oxford and served in uniform in both World Wars.
Dec 8, 1973 · LONDON, Dec. 7—Benn W. Levy, a playwright, stage and motion‐picture director and former Labor member of Parliament, died today in Oxford. His age was 73.
Benn W. Levy was born on 7 March 1900 in London, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for The Old Dark House (1932), Blackmail (1929) and Lord Camber's Ladies (1932). He was married to Constance Cummings. He died on 7 December 1973 in Oxford, England, UK.
Mr Benn W. Levy, MBE, who died yesterday in Oxford at the age of 73, was for many years active as a playwright and as a director of his own and other people's plays. For nearly five years, from 1945 to 1950, he was Labour MP for the Eton and Slough Division of Buckinghamshire.
Benn Wolfe Levy (7 March 1900 – 7 December 1973) was a Labour Party Member of Parliament in the House of Commons (1945–1950), and a successful playwright. He was educated at Repton School and University College, Oxford and served in uniform in both World Wars.
Nov 16, 2021 · Benn Levy, 1961, PUD/13/24, Parliamentary Archives. An influx of rookie MPs entered the House of Commons after the post-war 1945 General Election. One of the new intakes was the celebrated playwright, Benn Levy who’d won the Eton & Slough seat for the victorious Labour Party.
The Plays of Benn Levy: Between Shaw and Coward. The theme of Levy's first stage play, This Woman Business (1925), is the Shavian battle of the sexes, an idea that threads its way through most...