Little Friend (film)
1934 film by Berthold Viertel
Little Friend is a 1934 British drama film directed by Berthold Viertel and starring Matheson Lang, Nova Pilbeam and Lydia Sherwood.[1] The film was based on a novel by Ernst Lothar and adapted for the screen by Margaret Kennedy and Christopher Isherwood.[2] The score is by the Austrian composer then in exile Ernst Toch.
Plot summary
A young girl (Pilbeam) slowly becomes aware that her parents' marriage is disintegrating.
Cast
- Matheson Lang ... John Hughes
- Lydia Sherwood ... Helen Hughes
- Nova Pilbeam ... Felicity Hughes
- Arthur Margetson ... Hilliard
- Jean Cadell ... Miss Drew
- Jimmy Hanley ... Leonard Parry
- Gibb McLaughlin ... Thompson
- Diana Cotton ... Maud
- Cecil Parker ... Mason
- Clare Greet ... Mrs. Parry
- Jack Raine ... Jeffries
- Finlay Currie ... Grove
- Robert Nainby ... Uncle Ned
- Atholl Fleming ... Shepherd
- Basil Goth ... Doctor
- Charles Childerstone ... Solicitor
- Gerald Kent ... Butler
- Allan Aynesworth ... Col. Amberley
- Lewis Casson ... Judge
- Fritz Kortner ... Giant
- Hughie Green ... Boy
Prater Violet
Christopher Isherwood based his novel Prater Violet (1945) on his experience of working with Viertel and others on the production of Little Friend.[3]
References
Bibliography
- Jonathan Fryer, Isherwood: A Biography (Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1977) ISBN 0-385-12608-5
External links
- Little Friend at IMDb
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Films directed by Berthold Viertel
- Nora (1923)
- The Wig (1925)
- Uneasy Money (1926)
- Seven Faces (1929)
- The Sacred Flame (1931)
- The Magnificent Lie (1931)
- The Wiser Sex (1932)
- The Man from Yesterday (1932)
- Little Friend (1934)
- The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935)
- Rhodes of Africa (1936)
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