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  Isabel Jeans and Robin Irvine.
Photograph: courtesy Austrian Film Museum.
 
 
Easy Virtue
Also known as Fragile virtù in Italy; Vida Alegre in Spain
(1927) England
B&W : Seven reels / 7392 feet
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Isabel Jeans [Larita Filton], Robin Irvine [John Whittaker], Franklin Dyall [Aubrey Filton], Eric Bransby Williams [Claude Robson], Ian Hunter [Mr. Filton’s lawyer], Violet Farebrother [Mrs. Whittaker], Frank Elliott [Colonel Whittaker], Dacia Dean [Marion Whittaker], Dorothy Boyd [Hilda Whittaker], Enid Stamp-Taylor [Sarah]; Benita Hume [the telephonist]

Gainsborough Pictures, Limited, production; distributed by Woolf & Freedman Film Service, Limited. / Produced by Michael Balcon. Scenario by Eliot Stannard + [Alfred Hitchcock and Ivor Montagu], from the play Easy Virtue by Noël Coward. Art direction by Clifford Pember. Assistant director, Frank Mills. Cinematography by Claude McDonnell (Claude L. McDonnell). Presented by C.M. Woolf and Michael Balcon. / Released 20 August 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Hitchcock’s fifth film. British Board of Film Censors certificate: A. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist [16mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: ITV Global Entertainment Limited.

Keywords: Artists - Artist studios - Courtrooms - Death: Suicide - Divorce - Family: Husband-wife relationships, Mothers - France - Judges - Lawyers - Smoke - Tobacco: Cigarettes - United Kingdom: England

Listing updated: 19 December 2023.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Gifford-British n. 08247; Limbacher-Feature p. 70; Maltin-Classic p. 191; Perry-British pp. 57, 310, 328; Ryall-Blackmail pp. 9, 61; Shipman-Cinema p. 97; Taylor-Hitchcock pp. 85, 86, 87-88; Wood-Hitchcock p. 242 : ClasIm-279 p. 23 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.

 
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