Escape Me Never (1935)
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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, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Elisabeth Bergner - Gemma Jones
- Irene Vanbrugh - Mrs. McClean
- Penelope Dudley-Ward - Fenella McClean
- Leon Quartermaine - Mr. McClean
- Hugh Sinclair - Sebastian Sanger
- Griffith Jones - Caryl Sanger
- Lyn Harding - Heinrich
- Rosalinde Fuller - Teremtcherva
- Director(s):
- Paul Czinner
- Writer(s):
- Carl Zuckmayer, Robert J. Cullen
- Producer(s):
- Herbert Wilcox
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