The Girl Who Forgot
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Directed by | Adrian Brunel |
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Cinematography | Geoffrey Faithfull |
Edited by | Charles Hasse |
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Distributed by | Butcher's Film Service |
Release date | 24 February 1940 |
Running time | 79 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Girl Who Forgot is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Elizabeth Allan, Ralph Michael and Enid Stamp-Taylor.
It was made at the Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames, based on a play The Young Lady in Pink by Gertrude E. Jennings. The film's sets were designed by the art director . It was the final film of Brunel, who had been a leading director during the silent era.
Synopsis[]
On the train back from her school to Paddington, an eighteen-year-old girl named Leonora loses her memory. This coincides with her father's decision, having just got his pilot's license to take her mother on a flight to Baghdad. Lost in a hotel in London, she is rescued by a young man who wants to help her. However his fiancée is extremely jealous, and arranges for a poor confidence trickster to pretend to be her mother in exchange for cash.
Cast[]
- Elizabeth Allan as Leonora Barradine
- Ralph Michael as Tony Stevenage
- Enid Stamp-Taylor as Caroline Tonbridge
- Basil Radford as Mr. Barradine
- Jeanne de Casalis as Mrs. Barradine
- Muriel Aked as Mrs. Badger
- David Keir as Drawbridge
- as Ada Badger
- Eileen Sharp as Sara
Bibliography[]
- Wood, Linda. British Films 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
External links[]
- English-language films
- 1940 films
- British films
- 1940 comedy films
- British comedy films
- Films directed by Adrian Brunel
- Films shot at Nettlefold Studios
- Films set in London
- British black-and-white films
- British films based on plays
- 1940s British comedy film stubs