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The Beloved Vagabond (Original title)
Date: 1936 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Kurt Bernhardt

Synopsis: In the year 1900, a jilted architect poses as a tramp and falls in love with an orphan.

Genres:
Romance, Musical

Subjects:
Architects, Disguises, Vagrants, Orphans
Releases
Date: 25 August 1936Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundAspect ratio: 1.375:1Runtime: 77 mins 49 secs - Length: 6803 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Associated British Film Distributors
Date: 05 December 1946Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 77 mins 49 secs - Length: 7004 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Ealing Distribution Ltd.

Credits (26)
A Toeplitz Production: Toeplitz Productions, Presents: Associated British Film Distributors, Produced by: Ludovico Toeplitz, Production Manager: Dora Nirva, Assistant Director: W. O'Kelly, Scenario and Dialogue: Hugh Mills, Scenario and Dialogue: Walter Creighton, Arthur Wimperis, Freely adapted from the novel by: W.J. Locke, Photography: Franz Planer, Assisted by: C. Cooney, Edited by: Dug Myers, Art Director: A. Andreiw, Period Furniture: M. Harris & Sons, Costumes: Schiaparelli, Costumes: E.E. Stern, Music by: Darius Milhaud, Songs by: Mireille, Heimann, Musical Director: Leslie Bridgewater, Recorded by: Eric Williams, Sound Assistant: John W. Mitchell, Dialogue Supervisor: Owen Nares, Recorded on: RCA Photophone System, Made at: A.T.P. Studios London
Cast (15)
Maurice Chevalier (Gaston de Nerac), Betty Stockfield (Joanna Rushworth), Margaret Lockwood (Blanquette), Desmond Tester (Asticot), Austin Trevor (Comte de Verneuil), Peter Haddon (Major Walters), Charles Carson (Charles Ruchworth), Cathleen Nesbitt (Mme Boin), Barbara Gott (concierge), Amy Veness (hostess of the Cafe du Soleil), D.J. Williams (undertaker), C. Denier Warren (railway clerk), Peter Bull (artist in bar), Joe Delmonte, Frank Hubert