The Queen Was in the Parlour: a romance in three acts is a play by the English writer Noel Coward

Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...

. Belonging to the Ruritanian romance

Ruritanian Romance

A Ruritanian Romance is a story set in a fictional country, usually in Central or Eastern Europe, such as the Ruritania that gave the genre its name...

 genre, its title is drawn from a line in the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence

Sing a Song of Sixpence

Sing a Song of Sixpence is a well-known English nursery rhyme, perhaps originating in the 18th century. It is also listed in the Roud folk song index as number 13191.-Lyrics:...

. Although written in 1922, it was not produced until 24 August 1926, when it premiered at the St Martin's Theatre

St Martin's Theatre

St Martin's Theatre is a West End theatre, located in West Street, near Charing Cross Road, in the London Borough of Camden. It was designed as one of a pair of theatres with the Ambassadors Theatre by W.G.R...

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Adaptations

It has been adapted for film three times - the first two times under its original title (in 1927 as a silent movie and in 1928 as a talking picture) and the third time as Tonight Is Ours

Tonight Is Ours

Tonight Is Ours is a 1933 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Stuart Walker, and starring Claudette Colbert, Fredric March and Alison Skipworth...

in 1933.