"Who, in a play, wrote 'The truth is rarely pure, and never simple""?"
Sewell Stokes receivers in bankruptcy cases. In 1955 Stokes completed the novel, "Beyond His Means", based on the life of "Oscar Wilde". The film "Oscar Wilde", based on the Stokes brothers' play, and directed by Gregory Ratoff, starred Robert Morley, Ralph Richardson, was released in 1960. This coincided with the release of "The Trials of Oscar Wilde", a film directed by Ken Hughes, in which Peter Finch played the title role. The title of Stokes's memoir, "Rarely Pure", published in 1952, was taken from the line "The truth is rarely pure and never simple" spoken by character Algernon Moncrieff in Oscar Wilde's
Pure and Simple (song) single of the 21st century in that country. The song also topped the New Zealand Singles Chart for five weeks in July and August 2001 and reached number three in Ireland. In 2006, "Pure and Simple" was covered by "America's Got Talent" winner Bianca Ryan on her self-titled album. Many critics noted that the song had an uncanny resemblance to Oasis's "All Around the World" and All Saints' "Never Ever". BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles even recorded a parody version of "Pure and Simple" that included the song lyrics from these two songs. Despite this, when it was suggested