Esther McCracken

Esther Helen McCracken (née Armstrong), born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, was a British actress and playwright. Esther was educated at the Central Newcastle High School, where she won the cricket-ball throwing competition every year.

From 1929, she acted with the Newcastle Repertory Company. Her first play The Willing Spirit was produced in 1936. It was her second play, Quiet Wedding, in 1938, which made her reputation as a writer of domestic comedy and took her to London. It was later filmed by Anthony Asquith in 1941, and by Roy Boulting in 1958, as Happy Is the Bride.

Her next plays were less successful, but Quiet Weekend, in 1941, surpassed her earlier success and ran for over a thousand performances. It was filmed in 1946. She also wrote more serious plays in her later career, including Living Room in 1943, No Medals in 1944 (filmed as The Weaker Sex), and Cry Liberty in 1950. Esther introduced the BBC radio variety programme Wot Cheor Geordie, which ran from 1940 to 1956.

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