Little Friend (film)

Little Friend is a 1934 British drama film directed by Berthold Viertel and starring Matheson Lang, Nova Pilbeam and Lydia Sherwood.^[1] The film was based on a novel by Ernst Lothar and adapted for the screen by Margaret Kennedy and Christopher Isherwood.^[2]

Plot summary[]

A young girl (Pilbeam) slowly becomes aware that her parents' marriage is disintegrating.

Cast[]

Matheson Lang ... John Hughes
Lydia Sherwood ... Helen Hughes
Nova Pilbeam ... Felicity Hughes
Arthur Margetson ... Hilliard
Jean Cadell ... Miss Drew
Jimmy Hanley ... Leonard Parry
Gibb McLaughlin ... Thompson
Diana Cotton ... Maud
Cecil Parker ... Mason
Clare Greet ... Mrs. Parry
Jack Raine ... Jeffries
Finlay Currie ... Grove
Robert Nainby ... Uncle Ned
Atholl Fleming ... Shepherd
Basil Goth ... Doctor
Charles Childerstone ... Solicitor
Gerald Kent ... Butler
Allan Aynesworth ... Col. Amberley
Lewis Casson ... Judge
Fritz Kortner ... Giant
Hughie Green ... Boy

Prater Violet[]

Christopher Isherwood based his novel Prater Violet (1945) on his experience of working with Viertel and others on the production of Little Friend.^[3]

References[]

^ BFI Database entry
^ Fryer, p. 140
^ Fryer, p. 210

Bibliography[]

Jonathan Fryer, Isherwood: A Biography (Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1977) ISBN 0-385-12608-5

External links[]

Little Friend at IMDb

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[1] BFI Database entry

[2] Fryer, p. 140

[3] Fryer, p. 210

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