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Vanity (1935 film)

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Vanity
Directed byAdrian Brunel
Written byErnest Denny (play)
Adrian Brunel
Produced byGeorge Smith
StarringJane Cain
Percy Marmont
CinematographyGeoffrey Faithfull
Production
company
George Smith Productions
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • December 1935 (1935-12)
Running time
76 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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.

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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 and is now considered a lost film.

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

Bibliography

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