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Fanny by Gaslight |
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Fanny by Gaslight - 1944 | 102mins | Drama | B&WThe Production TeamDirector: Anthony
Asquith. Producer: Edward Black. Script: Doreen Montgomery, Michael Sadleir and Aimée Stuart. Cinematography: Arthur Crabtree. Art Direction: John Bryan. Editing: R.E. Dearing. Production Design: Arthur Alcott. Costume Design: Elizabeth Haffenden. Makeup: W.T. Partleton. Sound: B.C. Sewell. Original Music: Cedric Mallabey. |
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The CastPhyllis Calvert
- Fanny James Mason - Lord Manderstoke Stewart Granger - Harry Somerford Jean Kent - Lucy Wilfrid Lawson - Chunks Margaretta Scott - Alicia Nora Swinburne - Mrs. Hopwood Cathleen Nesbitt - Kate Somerford Helen Haye - Mrs. Somerford John Laurie - William Hopwood |
Plot Synopsis Fanny, a pretty young girl, lives in London of the
1870's with her parents William and Mary Hopwood, over a West End pub.
Hopwood also owns the 'place' next door, a rendezvous for young Society
blades. In a brawl here with the dissolute Manderstoke, Hopwood is killed.
On her deathbed, Mrs Hopwood tells Fanny that Hopwood was only her guardian,
and that her real father is Clive Seymore, a Cabinet Minister. Fanny,
now penniless, meets her father and he offers her a place as a maid-servant
in his household. Fanny soon learns that Alicia, Clive's wife, is having
an affair with Manderstoke. The affair leads to the suicide of Farmy's
father.
Harry Somerford, a young aristocrat, falls in love with Fanny and
proposes marriage, but out of deference to his family and position
she refuses. They live together, however, in opposition to his family,
and go to-Paris. There they meet Manderstoke, who is living with Fanny's
childhood friend, Lucy, now an actress. A quarrel breaks out, and
Manderstoke forces Harry to a duel. The latter is wounded but Manderstoke
is killed and at last his evil shadow is lifted from Fanny's life.
She and Harry return to London and eventually his family agree to
their marriage. |
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