Escape Me Never (1935)
- Starring:
- Elisabeth Bergner, Hugh Sinclair, (more)
- Director(s):
- Paul Czinner
Synopsis of Escape Me Never
Margaret Kennedy, whose novel The Constant Nymph dealt with a musician's love for a pretty young gamin, penned a variation of the same concept in Escape Me Never. Elizabeth Bergner stars as an unwed mother, who is befriended by impoverished composer Hugh Sinclair. He marries her out of pity, but his heart belongs to Penelope Dudley Ward, the wife of his brother. Sinclair is shaken out of his infidelity when his own wife's baby dies. This popular British version of Escape Me Never was remade by Warner Bros. in 1946, which though not as well cast (Ida Lupino is not a fair exchange for Elizabeth Bergner) boasts a superb musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold--who'd also scored Warners' filmization of Margaret Kennedy's Constant Nymph. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Escape Me Never
- Elisabeth Bergner - Gemma Jones
- Irene Vanbrugh - Mrs. McClean
- Penelope Dudley-Ward - Fenella McClean
- Lyn Harding - Heinrich
- Hugh Sinclair - Sebastian Sanger
- Griffith Jones - Caryl Sanger
- Leon Quartermaine - Mr. McClean
- Rosalinde Fuller - Teremtcherva
- Director(s):
- Paul Czinner
- Writer(s):
- Carl Zuckmayer, Robert J. Cullen
- Producer(s):
- Herbert Wilcox
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