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The Importance of Being Earnest

7.2 95 mins Comedy   1952
Javelin Films   British Film-Makers   J. Arthur Rank Organisation  
Director(s): Anthony Asquith

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.

Casts of The Importance of Being Earnest

Michael Redgrave

as Ernest Worthing

Michael Denison

as Algernon Moncrieff

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

Richard Wattis

as Seton

Walter Hudd

as Lane

Aubrey Mather

as Merriman

Ivor Barnard

as Conductor (Uncredited)

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