English without Tears (Original title)Her Man Gilbey (Alternative title)
Date: 04 September 1944 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Harold French
Synopsis: The daughter of a wealthy family falls in love with the household's butler after he joins the army for war service and rises to the rank of lieutenant.
Genres: Comedy, War
Subjects: World War II, Social status
Releases
Date: 1944Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 89 mins Length: 7961 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 89 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 04 September 1944 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Harold French
Synopsis: The daughter of a wealthy family falls in love with the household's butler after he joins the army for war service and rises to the rank of lieutenant.
Genres: Comedy, War
Subjects: World War II, Social status
Releases
Date: 1944Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 89 mins Length: 7961 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 89 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
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Production Company: Two Cities Films, An Anatole De Grunwald Production: Anatole de Grunwald, Production Manager: A.F. Green, Production Manager: James Carr, In charge of production: Sydney Box, William Sassoon, [Assistant Director (1st)]: Frank Hollands, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Billy Asher, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Edward Cross, [Continuity]: Olga Brook, Written by: Terence Rattigan, Anatole de Grunwald, Director of Photography: Bernard Knowles, Camera Operator: W. Mcleod, [Focus puller]: Chic Waterson, [Clapper loader]: Clifford Slade, [Stills]: H.W. Devereux, [Back Projection]: Charles Staffell, Editor: Alan Jaggs, [Assistant Editor (1st)]: Ida Barker, Art Director: Ward Richards, [Draughtsman]: William Bowden, Harry White, Music: Nicholas Brodzsky, Conductor: Charles Williams, Sound: John C. Cook, Sound: Desmond Dew, [Sound Camera Operator]: Roy Day, [Sound Assistant]: George Lewis, [Boom Operator]: Percy Dayton, [Dubbing Crew]: Desmond Dew, [Dubbing Crew]: Alan Whatley, [Dubbing Crew]: Anthony J. Kay, J. Luscombe, Sound Editor: Kitty Spreckley, logo: D&P Studios
Cast
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Penelope Ward (Joan Heseltine), Michael Wilding (Tom Gilbey), Lilli Palmer (Brigid Kundsen [sic]), Claude Dauphin (François de Freycinet), Albert Lieven (Felix Demborski), Peggy Cummins (Bobbie Heseltine), Roland Culver (Sir Cosmo Brandon), Margaret Rutherford (Lady Christabel Beauclerk), Martin Miller (M Schmidt), Paul Demel (M Saladoff), Beryl Measor (Miss Faljambe), Guy Middleton (Captain Standish), Esma Cannon (Queenie), Ivor Barnard (Mr Quill), Paul Boniface (M Rolland), Richard Turner (delivery man), Andre Randall (Dutch officer), Gerard Hinge (Polish officer), Vida Hope (an A.T.), Primula Rollo (a second A.T.), Heather Boys (a third A.T.), Alexander Witkin (Italian delegate), Gordon Begg (grandfather Gilbey), Andrea Malandrinos (man in gallery), Felix Aylmer (Mr Spaggot), Cecil Bevan (Mr Jordan), John Schofield (police sergeant), Judith Furse (Elise Batter-Jones), Margaret Mcgrath (glamour girl), Joan Misseldine, Beryl Laverick, Pauline Lord, Maureen Hurley (girl at dance), Irene Handl ([Romanian delegate]), Frederick Richter ([German delegate]), Antony Holles ([receptionist]), David Keir ([interpreter]), J.A. Bimstone ([oriental gent at police station]), Stéphane Grappelli ([himself]), Albert Whelan ([Gilbey's father]), Ferdy Mayne ([reporter in Geneva])