Vanity (1935 film)

Vanity
Directed by	Adrian Brunel
Produced by	George Smith
Written by	Ernest Denny (play) Adrian Brunel
Starring	Jane Cain Percy Marmont
Cinematography	Geoffrey Faithfull
Production company	George Smith Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	December 1935
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Vanity is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Jane Cain, Percy Marmont and John Counsell. The plot concerns a conceited actress, convinced of the general adoration in which she is held, faking her own death in order to gratify herself by observing the depth of grief caused by her demise. However the actual reactions to the "news" prove to be far from what she had expected.

Production

The film was a quota quickie production, made at Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames for distribution by Columbia Pictures. It was based on a play by Ernest Denny. It is now considered to be a lost film.

The film is the only known screen credit of Cain, who went on to achieve a degree of immortality in British culture after being chosen as "the girl with the golden voice", becoming the original voice of the speaking clock in the United Kingdom between 1936 and 1963.

Partial cast

Jane Cain as Vanity Faire
Percy Marmont as Jefferson Brown
H.F. Maltby as Lord Cazalet
John Counsell as Dick Broderick

Bibliography

Low, Rachael. History of the British Film: Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985 .

External links

Vanity at the Internet Movie Database
Vanity at BFI Film & TV Database

The films of Adrian Brunel

The Cost of a Kiss (1917)
The Man Without Desire (1923)
Lovers in Araby (1924)
Blighty (1927)
The Constant Nymph (1928)
The Vortex (1928)
A Light Woman (1928)
The Crooked Billet (1929)
Taxi to Paradise (1933)
Two Wives for Henry (1933)
The Laughter of Fools (1933)
I'm an Explosive (1933)
Follow the Lady (1933)
Important People (1934)
Badger's Green (1934)
Menace (1934)
Variety (1935)
Vanity (1935)
City of Beautiful Nonsense (1935)
Cross Currents (1935)
While Parents Sleep (1935)
The Invader (1935)
Prison Breaker (1936)
Love at Sea (1936)
The Rebel Son (1938)
The Lion Has Wings (1939)
The Girl Who Forgot (1940)

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