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] The score is by the Austrian composer then in exile Ernst Toch.
Plot summary
[edit]A young girl (Pilbeam) slowly becomes aware that her parents' marriage is disintegrating.
Cast
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ BFI Database entry
- ^ Fryer, p. 140
- ^ Fryer, p. 210
Bibliography
[edit]- Jonathan Fryer, Isherwood: A Biography (Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1977) ISBN 0-385-12608-5
External links
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