{{Short description|1940 play written by Emlyn Williams}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox play | name =The Light of Heart | image =File:The Light of Heart.jpg | image_size = | caption = | writer = Emlyn Williams | setting = | date of premiere = 21 February 1940 | original language = English | place = Apollo Theatre, London | series = | subject = | genre = Drama }} '''''The Light of Heart''''' is a 1940 play by the British writer Emlyn Williams.
It ran for 127 performances at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End between 21 February and 8 June 1940. The cast included Godfrey Tearle, Megs Jenkins, Gladys Henson, Elliott Mason and Angela Baddeley.<ref>Wearing p.VIII</ref> It later ran for 55 performances at the Guild Theatre on Broadway.
==Adaptations== In 1942 it was adapted into the Hollywood film ''Life Begins at Eight-Thirty'' directed by Irving Pichel and starring Monty Woolley, Ida Lupino and Cornel Wilde.<ref>Goble p.502</ref> Twenty years later it was made into a West German film ''Life Begins at Eight'' starring Johanna Matz.
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==Bibliography== * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Wearing, J.P. ''The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
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