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The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
Directed by Anthony Asquith
“They don't come any wilder than Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners, morals and morality!”
Comedy · 1h 35m
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
Cast
Michael Redgrave
Ernest Worthing
Michael Denison
Algernon Moncrieff
Edith Evans
Lady Bracknell
Joan Greenwood
Gwendolen Fairfax
Dorothy Tutin
Cecily Cardew
Margaret Rutherford
Miss Prism
Miles Malleson
Canon Chasuble
Richard Wattis
Seton
Walter Hudd
Lane
Aubrey Mather
Merriman
Ivor Barnard
Conductor (Uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Anthony Asquith
- Screenplay
- Anthony Asquith
- Director of Photography
- Desmond Dickinson
- Original Music Composer
- Benjamin Frankel
- Editor
- John D. Guthridge
- Producer
- Teddy Baird
Details
- Release date
- 1952-06-02
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Javelin Films, British Film-Makers, J. Arthur Rank Organisation