Look Before You Love

Look Before You Love
Look Before You Love
Directed by	Harold Huth
Screenplay by	Reginald Long
Story by	I Know You by Ketti Frings
Produced by	John Corfield; Harold Huth
Starring	Margaret Lockwood; Griffith Jones; Norman Wooland
Cinematography	Harry Waxman
Edited by	John D. Guthridge
Music by	Bretton Byrd
Production; company	Burnham Productions
Distributed by	General Film Distributors (UK)
Release date	7 December 1948 (UK);
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Look Before You Love is a 1948 British drama film directed by Harold Huth and starring Margaret Lockwood, Griffith Jones and Maurice Denham.^[1]

Plot summary[]

A woman working in the British Embassy in Brazil falls in love and marries a man, but soon discovers him to be a drunken wastrel tied up with serious crime.^[2]

Cast[]

Margaret Lockwood as Ann Markham
Griffith Jones as Charles Kent
Norman Wooland as Ashley Morehouse
Phyllis Stanley as Bettina Colby
Maurice Denham as Fosser
Frederick Piper as Miller
Bruce Seton as Johns
Michael Medwin as Emile Garat
Violet Farebrother as Dowager
Peggy Evans as Typist

Production[]

The film was originally known as I Know You and Change of Heart.^[3] Margaret Lockwood had been arguing with the Rank Organisation over what films she should make but agreed to do this.^[4]

Critical reception[]

In a contemporary review, Variety called the film "an overlong and somewhat corny love story that gives Margaret Lockwood a sympathetic role after her many Wicked Lady characterisations, in which she has been so successfully typed in the past", adding, "it may gratify the out-of-town popular audiences, but its chances of success in any metropolis are scant";^[5] while more recently, TV Guide rated the film two out of five stars, dismissing it as a "Ridiculous story played straight; as a farce it might have had some chance."^[6]

The film generally received poor reviews.^[7] The film's failure contributed to the decline in Lockwood's popularity.^[8]

References[]

^ BFI.org
^ "LOOK BEFORE YOU LOVE". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 17, no. 10. 13 August 1949. p. 46. Retrieved 28 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Lockwood happy in new role". The Sun. No. 2359. Sydney. 27 June 1948. p. 31 (STUMPS). Retrieved 28 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Bing Crosby will go to England to make a film". The Sun. No. 2337. Sydney. 25 January 1948. p. 27. Retrieved 28 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Variety (December 1948)". archive.org.
^ "Look Before You Love". TVGuide.com.
^ "Popular stars out of contest". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 16, no. 38. 26 February 1949. p. 32. Retrieved 28 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Vagg, Stephen (29 January 2020). "Why Stars Stop Being Stars: Margaret Lockwood". Filmink.

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[1] BFI.org

[2] "LOOK BEFORE YOU LOVE". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 17, no. 10. 13 August 1949. p. 46. Retrieved 28 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

[3] "Lockwood happy in new role". The Sun. No. 2359. Sydney. 27 June 1948. p. 31 (STUMPS). Retrieved 28 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

[4] "Bing Crosby will go to England to make a film". The Sun. No. 2337. Sydney. 25 January 1948. p. 27. Retrieved 28 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

[5] "Variety (December 1948)". archive.org.

[6] "Look Before You Love". TVGuide.com.

[7] "Popular stars out of contest". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 16, no. 38. 26 February 1949. p. 32. Retrieved 28 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

[vagg-8] Vagg, Stephen (29 January 2020). "Why Stars Stop Being Stars: Margaret Lockwood". Filmink.

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