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Importance of Being Earnest (The)

Country: UK, Language: English, 95 mins

  • Director: Anthony Asquith
  • Writer: Anthony Asquith; Oscar Wilde
  • Producer: Teddy Baird; Earl St. John

CGiii Comment

A gay director, a gay writer...gently and not-so-subtlely mocking heterosexuality.

The definitive cinematic production - all the others simply disintegrate when compared.

Quite charming.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff are two men that are both pretending to be someone they are not.

Cast & Characters

Michael Redgrave as Jack Worthing;
Richard Wattis as Seton;
Michael Denison as Algernon Moncrieff;
Walter Hudd as Lane;
Edith Evans as Lady Bracknell;
Joan Greenwood as Gwendolen Fairfax;
Dorothy Tutin as Cecily Cardew;
Margaret Rutherford as Miss Prism;
Miles Malleson as Canon Chasuble;
Aubrey Mather as Merriman