Hay Fever

Another play-based show from BBC Television on the Noel Coward Collection, this one has been remade and broadcast several times in the UK and in the US over the years. This one opens with the Bliss family bickering about where their various invited guests will all sleep. The young flapper-wanna-be daughter Sorel (Phoebe Nicholls) and selfish Simon (Michael Siberry) are the children of Judith (Penelope Keith) and David (Paul Eddington). Joan Sims is Clara, the maid, who must deal with all this confusion. Of course, everything goes wrong, and awkward situations abound at a high-society party, Coward's specialty. This was the final film directed by Cedric Messina, who was also the producer.