Escape Me Never (1935)
May 24, 1935Release Date
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Elisabeth Bergner
Gemma Jones
Hugh Sinclair
Sebastian Sanger
Griffith Jones
Caryl Sanger
Penelope Dudley-Ward
Fenella McClean
Irene Vanbrugh
Lady Helen McClean
Leon Quartermaine
Sir Ivor McClean
Lyn Harding
Herr Heinrich
Rosalinde Fuller
Teremtcherva
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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. The score is by William Walton with orchestration by Hyam Greenbaum. 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. 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.