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City of Beautiful Nonsense is a British film of genre Drama directed by Adrian Brunel with Emlyn Williams

City of Beautiful Nonsense (1935)

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Length 1h28
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Genres Drama

City of Beautiful Nonsense is a 1935 British drama film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Emlyn Williams, Sophie Stewart and Eve Lister. The film is based on the best-selling 1909 novel of the same name by E. Temple Thurston, which had previously been filmed as a silent by Henry Edwards in 1919. The plot deals with a young woman who is in love with a penniless composer, but believes she must marry a wealthy man to please her father and only realises after various tribulations that she should follow her heart rather than her head.

Actors

Emlyn Williams

(Jack Grey)Eve Lister

(Amber)George Carney

(Chesterton)J. Fisher White

(Thomas Grey)Hubert Harben

(Mr. Dealtry)Dorothy Vernon

(Mrs. Rowse)
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