Directed by:
Victor SavilleCinematography:
Glen MacWilliamsCast:
Jessie Matthews, Anna Lee, Griffith Jones, Alfred Drayton, Martita Hunt, Cameron Hall, Enid LindseyPlots(1)
Elizabeth, a fashion-house employee, dreams of a stage career, and Victor, the small-time actor, of a splendid future as a Shakespearean actor. Both dreams fail miserably at the artists' agency. Victor will have to continue working as a female impersonator. When Elizabeth loses her job and Victor his voice (after catching a cold), the young woman fills in for him. She puts on his trousers and now, as a woman, plays the part of a man imitating a woman. Her performance is a huge success, taking "Victoria" and her "manager" to stages all over Europe – until an English princess in France becomes suspicious and sets out to uncover the truth during an excursion on the Riviera ... (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Jessie Matthews
UK
Best movies:
Tom Thumb (1958)
Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
Anna Lee
UK
Best movies:
The Sound of Music (1965)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Griffith Jones
UK
Best movies:
A Performance of Macbeth (1979) (TV movie)
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944)
A Yank at Oxford (1938)
Martita Hunt
Argentina
Best movies:
Great Expectations (1946)
Becket (1964)
The Spies (1957)
Cameron Hall
UK
Best movies:
The Citadel (1938)
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
San Demetrio, London (1943)
Enid Lindsey
UK
Best movies:
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)