Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935)
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Synopsis of Vanessa, Her Love Story
Adapted from the last of Hugh Walpole's "Herries Chronicles," Vanessa: Her Love Story is set in Victorian England. Vanessa (Helen Hayes) doesn't know it, but there's a strain of inherited insanity in the family of her husband Ellis (Otto Kruger). Disturbed by Ellis' bizarre behavior, poor Vanessa is all but forced to take a lover, handsome military officer Benjie (Robert Montgomery). Though both hero and heroine are punished for their transgressions, the film ends on a relatively happy note; the original novel's final chapters and tragic denouement are blithely ignored by scenarist Lenore J. Coffee. May Robson steals the show as Vanessa's centenarian grandma. Vanessa: Her Love Story represented Helen Hayes' last film work until her 1952 "comeback" in My Son John. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Vanessa, Her Love Story
- Helen Hayes - Vanessa
- Otto Kruger - Ellis
- Lewis Stone - Adam
- Donald Crisp - George
- Agnes Anderson - Marion
- Lawrence Grant - Amery
- Crauford Kent - Timothy
- Howard Leeds - Jamie
- Mary Gordon - Mrs. Leathwaite
- Robert Montgomery - Benjie
- May Robson - Judith
- Henry Stephenson - Barney
- Jessie Ralph - Lady Mullion
- Lionel Belmore - Leathwaite
- George K. Arthur - Porter
- Ethel Griffies - Winifred Trent
- Elspeth Dudgeon - Vera Trent
- Director(s):
- William Howard
- Writer(s):
- Lenore J. Coffee, Hugh Walpole
- Producer(s):
- David O. Selznick
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