# Service (play)

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***Service*** is a 1932 play by the British writer [Dodie Smith](/source/Dodie_Smith). It is set around the lives of the Service family who own a department store and whose fortunes are hit by the [Great Depression](/source/Great_Depression).

## Adaptation

In 1933 it was adapted into an American film *[Looking Forward](/source/Looking_Forward_(1933_film))* directed by [Clarence Brown](/source/Clarence_Brown) and starring [Lionel Barrymore](/source/Lionel_Barrymore) and [Lewis Stone](/source/Lewis_Stone).

## Bibliography

- Gale, Maggie. *West End women: women and the London stage, 1918-1962*. Routledge, 1996.

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