![]() ![]() ![]() Freddie and Phyllis see an advertisement offering Psmith's services for any job whatsoever. He has inherited five thousand pounds, but Lady Middlewick must sign any cheques drawn by Freddie against his legacy, and she disapproves of the investment. Freddie and Phyllis Jackson want to get married but her father will not approve unless Freddie either works for his jam business or invests five thousand pounds in the business. Freddie's stepmother, Lady Middlewick, has inherited a diamond necklace (to the chagrin of second cousin Ethelberta). At the castle is the Earl of Middlewick, his butler Bellows, his youngest son Freddie, and his secretary Baxter. ![]() The first scene is set in the Oak Gallery in Blandings Castle, in the morning. In 1933 the play was adapted into a film Leave It to Me directed by Monty Banks and starring Gene Gerrard, Olive Borden and Molly Lamont. He hires Psmith, who is ready to do any job, to come to the family's country house and steal his stepmother's diamond necklace, but they find that others are after the necklace, too. In the play, Freddie Bosham, son of the Earl of Middlewick, wants to marry Phyllis Jackson, but needs to raise money to be able to marry her. ![]() It premiered in London's West End at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 29 September 1930. Wodehouse, based on the latter's 1923 novel of the same title. Leave it to Psmith, subtitled "A comedy of youth, love and misadventure", is a 1930 comedy play by Ian Hay and P. ![]()
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