Escape Me Never | |
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Directed by | Paul Czinner |
Screenplay by | Robert Cullen Carl Zuckmayer[1] or Carl Mayer[2] |
Based on | Escape Me Never 1935 play and The Fool of the Family 1930 novel by Margaret Kennedy |
Produced by | Herbert Wilcox |
Starring | Elisabeth Bergner Hugh Sinclair Griffith Jones Penelope Dudley-Ward |
Cinematography | Sepp Allgeier Georges Périnal Freddie Young |
Edited by | David Lean |
Music by | William Walton |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 102 minutes / USA: 95 min |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Escape Me Never is a 1935 British drama film directed by Paul Czinner, produced by Herbert Wilcox, and starring Elisabeth Bergner (recreating the role of Gemma as she created it onstage in New York and London), Hugh Sinclair and Griffith Jones.[3][4] The score is by William Walton with orchestration by Hyam Greenbaum.[5] Bergner was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance, but lost to Bette Davis. British readers of Film Weekly magazine voted the 1935 Best Performance in a British Movie to her.[6] The film is an adaptation of the play Escape Me Never by Margaret Kennedy, which was based upon her 1930 novel The Fool of the Family. That book was a sequel to The Constant Nymph, which was also about the Sanger family of musical geniuses, but there is a disjunct among the books and the films: the Sanger brothers are never mentioned in the 1943 film version of The Constant Nymph. Another film adaptation of Escape Me Never was made in 1947 by Warner Bros.