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Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole

This site is about the Salford working-class author, Walter Greenwood (1903-1974), and all his work – including but not just limited to Love on the Dole (scroll down to the blue area below for article titles and down to the white area below that for your selected article)

  • Walter Greenwood Home
  • About the Author of this blog/website
  • Walter Greenwood News
  • Walter Greenwood (1903-1974): a Brief Slide Show Introduction to his Life and Works
  • Walter Greenwood: a Biography
  • Walter Greenwood’s Biographical Timeline *
  • Three New Autobiographical Pieces by Walter Greenwood (1971)
  • A Note on Asterisks
  • Walter Greenwood Web-site Development Plan
  • Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole – Acknowledgements, Referencing System and Copyright
  • Contact
  • To Begin at the Beginning: Love on the Dole (the novel, 1933)
  • Love on the Dole: the Backlisted Podcast (John Mitchinson and Andy Miller with Andrew Hankinson, 30 January 2024)
  • What Happens in Love on the Dole? – Plot Summaries and Other Useful Devices (1934 /2024)
  • The Novel Putnam Published Instead of Love on the Dole: Hans Fallada’s Little Man, What Now? (Kleiner Mann Was Nun? 1933) *
  • Fame: Love on the Dole (the Play, 1934, co-written with Ronald Gow)
  • In the Cinema at Last: Love on the Dole (the Film, 1941)
  • Resources for Learning About Walter Greenwood
  • Two/Three Songs, Two Hymns, Two Socialist Anthems, and a March in the Play of Love on the Dole: Act I and Act III, Scenes 1 and 2 (1934/1935) (and a Coda on a Song in the Film, 1941) *
  • Five Producers, Four Directors and Two Stars in Search of a Picture: the Tantalising Project of Love on the Dole As Film (1934-1941)*
  • The Film Music of Love on the Dole by Richard Addinsell, probably orchestrated by Roy Douglas (1941) *
  • Sam Grundy’s Car: Sally Hardcastle’s Resistance (1933;1941)*
  • Love on the Dole: the Cartoons (February 1935)*
  • An Introduction to Walter Greenwood and Arthur Wragg’s The Cleft Stick (1937)
  • Word and Image in Walter Greenwood and Arthur Wragg’s The Cleft Stick (1937) *
  • Arthur’s Wragg’s Original Dust-wrapper Drawing for The Cleft Stick, and his Original Drawing of an Alternative Design (1936/7) *
  • Arthur Wragg Draws Walter as a Schoolboy in ‘The Old School – an Autobiographical Fragment’ (The Cleft Stick, 1937) *
  • Walter Greenwood’s Christmas Present for Arthur Wragg (1937) *
  • Underneath the Lamp-post: Arthur Wragg’s Incomplete Sketch for a New Walter Greenwood Dust-wrapper (1930s? 1940s?) *
  • ‘Any Bread, Cake or Pie?’: Walter Greenwood’s Hunger Story (1937) *
  • What Sally Did Next: Greenwood’s Sequel to Love on the Dole (‘Prodigal’s Return’, John Bull, January 1938)
  • Walter Greenwood’s Two Manchester Hospital Stories (1935 and 1945) *
  • Walter Greenwood’s Wartime Novel: Something in My Heart (1944)
  • Walter Greenwood’s People’s War Manifesto (Sunday Mirror, 1941)
  • Walter Greenwood and the Beveridge Report (1941-1945) *
  • Walter Greenwood’s Press Cuttings Books (1933-1974) *
  • Looking Back: Walter Greenwood’s Memoir – There Was a Time (1967).
  • ‘Call the Handywoman!’: Birth and Death in Hanky Park (1933-1937) *
  • A Unique (?) Typescript Acting Copy of Walter Greenwood’s The Practised Hand, with Rehearsal Notes, and Two Character Sketches by Arthur Wragg (1935) *
  • ‘Servitude at the Desk’: Walter Greenwood and Clerical Work (1916-1967)*
  • Walter Greenwood’s Workhouse Memories (1933 to 1967) *
  • ‘Down and Out’ with Orwell and Greenwood (1933;1939) *
  • Why is Walter Greenwood important? An interview with Chris Hopkins (with Liverpool University Press, 2018)
  • Walter Greenwood and his Father’s Trade (Hairdresser) *
  • Love on the Dole in a Time of Full Employment: Granada/ATV’s Television Adaptation (1967) *
  • Walter Greenwood’s Dust-Wrappers and Covers 1933 to the present*
  • Don’t Forget to Look Behind the Dust-wrapper! a Hidden Feature in the Czech edition of Love on the Dole (1937) *
  • Reviews of My Book: Walter Greenwood’s Love on the Dole, Novel, Play, Film (Liverpool University Press, 2018)
  • Walter Greenwood’s Other Books (1934 – 1967)
  • Walter Greenwood’s Plays (1934 – 1971) *
  • Three Cheers for the First Night, 26 February 1934! Audrey Cameron’s Celebration Copy of Love on the Dole *
  • Walter Greenwood’s Forgotten Short Stories (1931 – 1950)
  • Walter Greenwood and Film
  • Paul Graney’s Memories of Lost Early Drafts of the Play of Love on the Dole (Tapes 1960s? / One Bloke, 2011) *
  • Screenwriter Barbara K. Emary Looks Back at the Making of the 1941 Love on the Dole (1988)
  • Love on the Dole – a very Concise Commercial Adaptation from 1939 *
  • Walter Greenwood’s Creative Partnerships *
  • Love on the Dole in Sheffield: a Unique Story (April 1935)*
  • Love on the Dole in Newcastle – Another Unique Story, or, Anyway, Play-script (April 1935) *
  • Walter Greenwood’s Finances and Love on the Dole *
  • Love on the Dole: the Actors (1934 – 1937) *
  • Love on the Dole 1935-2010: ‘Programmes Jealously Preserved’ *
  • Who Went to See the Play in the Thirties? The Reception of Love on the Dole Revisited *
  • Doleful Humour: Laughing Off Unemployment Between the Wars? *
  • Walter Greenwood Enjoys his Early Successes: a Letter (6 March 1934) *
  • Mr and Mrs Buslingthorpe Go and See Love on the Dole (Grand Theatre, Leeds, May 1934) *
  • I Have a Ticket for Love on the Dole at the Garrick! (January 1935) *
  • Eleanor Roosevelt Goes to See Love on the Dole (Shubert Theatre, New York, April 1936)
  • Walter Greenwood: Vegetarian Messenger (1934-1935) *
  • Love on the Dole at the People’s Palace (Mile End Road, London E.1, 1938) *
  • Love on the Dole: an Australian Glass Cinema Slide (circa 1942)
  • Love on the Dole – a Home-made Dust-wrapper (circa 1967?) *
  • A Forgotten Love on the Dole Rehearsal Photograph by James ‘Jimmy’ Jarché (December 1940)
  • Four Publicity Photos and the US Release of Love on the Dole (Four Continents Inc., 12 October, 1945) *
  • Love on the Dole: the Cigarette Card (1958)
  • Love on the Dole: a Second Cigarette Card (1935) *
  • The Autodidact’s Introduction to Love on the Dole: the Nelson Anthology of Modern Drama (1936) *
  • Love on the Dole and the Clergy *
  • Walter Greenwood’s Tie *
  • Walter Greenwood and the Spy: an Incredible Story *
  • Love on the Dole and a Case of Theatrical Fraud – Or Was It?: Feltham Police Court and the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey (November 1935 – February 1936). *
  • Love on the Dole: the Musical (1970) *
  • William Alwyn’s The Cure for Love Waltz, from Walter Greenwood & Robert Donat’s Film, The Cure for Love (1949) *
  • Walter Greenwood and the Delta Bombers *
  • A Second Walter Greenwood? Edward A. Hibbitt, Salford novelist *
  • Walter Greenwood on Radio and TV *
  • Cape and Penguin Advertise Greenwood *
  • Walter Greenwood and Gracie Fields *
  • Walter Greenwood and George Formby *
  • Walter Greenwood and Robert Donat *
  • Walter Greenwood and Robert Newton *
  • Walter Greenwood and Thora Hird *
  • Walter Greenwood and Dora Bryan *
  • Wendy Hiller and Love on the Dole *
  • George Bernard Shaw, Wendy Hiller, and Walter Greenwood *
  • Deborah Kerr, Stardom, and Love on the Dole *
  • Picture Post Foretells a Star: Deborah Kerr (December 1940) *
  • The National Portrait Gallery Portrait of Wendy Hiller as Sally Hardcastle by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (1935)*
  • One of Our Portraits is Missing: ‘Drusilla Wills as Mrs Jike in Love on the Dole’ by James Arden Grant (1938) *
  • A Pen and Ink Sketch of Walter Greenwood by Louis Ollier (1934?) *
  • The (Only) Painting of Walter Greenwood, by Margaret Rosemary Anyon Cook (1950?) *
  • Walter Greenwood Among the Artists: Polperro (1936 to 1965) *
  • Walter Greenwood’s First Press Interview: ‘Turned Idle Days to Money’ (Manchester Evening News, 1933) *
  • Walter Greenwood: ‘Tragedy Behind the Play’ Interview (Hannen Swaffer, Daily Herald, 1935) *
  • ‘Greenwood Come Home’ interview (Geoffrey Moorhouse, the Guardian, 1967) *
  • Walter Greenwood: ‘Dole Cue’ Interview (Catherine Stott, the Guardian, 1971)
  • Walter Greenwood: ‘Those Turbulent Years’ Interview (John Tusa, BBC Radio 4, 1971) *
  • Walter Greenwood: ‘Old Habits Die Hard’ Interview (George Rosie, the Radio Times, 1971) *
  • Walter Greenwood: the kersal flats.co.uk Interview (1973) *
  • Walter Greenwood Court (15 Storeys, 1964-2001) *
  • The Complete Works of Walter Greenwood (1933 – 1967): a Gallery
  • The Value of Love on the Dole – the Short View and the Long View (1933-1980) *

Walter Greenwood (1903-1974): a Brief Slide Show Introduction to his Life and Works

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Do download this PowerPoint file for a brief slide-show giving an overview of Greenwood’s life and achievements.

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